1436 CATALOGUE OF 



the hind wings. Wings broad, with a large blackish dot in the 

 disk, and with an exterior brown denticulate deeply undulating line. 

 Fore wings acute, with an antemedial brown denticulated line ; ex- 

 terior border convex, moderately oblique. Length of the body 

 £ lines; of the wings 12 lines. 



Sula. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



BoTVS ILLATALIS. 



Mas. Aarato-flava ; caput et thorax purpureo-fusca ; oculi albo 

 marginati ; palpi purpureo-fusci, breves, lati, obtusi, sub- 

 ascendentes, subtus argenteo-albi, articulo So minimo ; antenna 

 glabrae, graciles ; abdomen alas posticas longissime superans, 

 fasciis duabus subapicalibus nigris albo marginatis ; pedes 

 gracillimi ; alee cenecp, latiusculce, lineis duabus fuscis obliquis ; 

 anticce vitta postica lata aurato-Jlava, gutta transversa, lunula 

 lineaque exteriore abbreviata fuscis ; posticce linea 2a valde 

 abbreviata. 



Male. Gilded yellow. Body beneath and legs silvery white. 

 Head and thorax purplish brown. Eyes white-bordered. Palpi 

 purplish brown, broad, obtuse, slightly ascending, very much shorter 

 than the breadth of the head, silvery white beneath ; third joint ex- 

 tremely short. Antennae smooth, slender. Abdomen long, tapering, 

 extending very much beyond the hind wings ; two black interrupted 

 white-bordered bands near the tip ; apical tuft small, elongate: 

 Legs long, very slender. Wings aeneous, elongate, rather broad ; 

 two brown oblique lines ; one antemedial, the other across the 

 middle ; fringe whitish, interlined with brown. Fore wings acute, 

 purple- tinged along the costa, with a broad pale gilded yellow stripe 

 along the interior border ; a transverse brown dot near the outer 

 side of the first line; a brown lunule forming the fore part of the 

 second line ; a third brown line much abbreviated towards the inte- 

 rior border ; exterior border slightly convex, very oblique. Hind 

 wings with the second line not extending beyond half the breadth 

 from the costa. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 

 16 lines. 



Sula. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



