LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1431 



Female. Whitish. Body beneath and legs silvery white. 

 Head and thorax aeneous-brown. Palpi aeneous-brown, slender, 

 obliquely ascending, silvery white beneath, not rising higher than 

 the vertex; third joint conical, very minute. Antenna? rather stout. 

 Abdomen lanceolate, extending much beyond the hind wings. Legs 

 very slender. Wings semihyaline, moderately broad, with a purplish 

 cinereous marginal band. Fore wings acute, with a purplish cine- 

 reous costal stripe ; a brown antemedial dot and a brown transverse 

 postmedial streak in the disk; exterior border convex, rather oblique. 

 Hind wings wilh a brown antemedial dot iu the disk. Length of the 

 body 4| lines; of the wings 10 lines. 



New Guinea. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



BOTYS FASCICULATALIS. 



Mas. Pallide aurato-flava ; caput et thorax antice eeneo-fusca ; 

 palpi ceneo-fusci, porrecti, latiusculi, capitis latitudine vix 

 breviores ; antennce subserratce ; thoracis latera antica ameo- 

 fusca ; alee breviusculee, subhyalince, lineis duabus subrectis 

 fasciaque marginali aneo-fuscis ; anticce costa ceneo-fusca 

 fasciculo antemedio chalgbceo reflexo. 



Male. Pale gilded yellow. Body beneath silvery white. 

 Head and fore part of the thorax aeneous-brown. Palpi aeneous- 

 brown, porrect, rather broad, silvery white beneath, nearly as long 

 as the breadth of the head ; .third joint very short. Antennae very 

 minutely serrated. Thorax aeneous-brown on each side in front. 

 Fore tibiae aeneous-brown. Wings slightly hyaline, rather short, 

 with two oblique nearly straight aeneous-brown lines, and with a 

 marginal band of the same hue. Fore wings acute; costa aeneous- 

 brown, with a reflexed antemedial chalvbeous tuft; exterior border 

 convex, slightly oblique. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 

 8 lines. 



This species seems to have some affinity to the genus Ma- 

 rasmia. 



New Guinea. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



BOTYS? INVENUSTALIS. 



Mas. JEneo-fusca ; palpi breves, graciles, arcuati, ascendentes, 

 articulo So conico ; alee elongates, fascia albida lata obliqua 



