1444 CATALOGUE OF 



niyro[; posticce linea antemedia nigricante diffusa, lunula 

 nigra. 



Female. Pale cinereous. Body pale ochraceous. Head 

 beneath and pectus silvery white. Palpi rather slender, obliquely 

 ascending, not rising higher than the vertex ; third joint acute, very 

 minute. Abdomen extending for half its length beyond the hind 

 wings, with a brown point on each side of the fore border of the 

 second segment. Wings slightly hyaline, diffusedly blackish- 

 speckled towards the exterior border, and with a diffuse postmedial 

 denticulated blackish line, which is much dislocated in the disk; a 

 black antemedial point. Fore wings acute, with a diffuse blackish 

 line on the inner side of the point and with a black lunule beyond 

 the point ; a brown costal streak extending along half the length 

 from the base ; exterior border slightly convex, moderately oblique. 

 Length of the body 6J lines; of the wings 13 lines. 



a. Java. Presented by the Secretary of the India Board. 



BOTYS STGNATALIS. 



Fcem. Aurato-flava ; caput et thorax anticus ochracea ; palpi 

 ochracei, porrecti, subtus argenteo-albi, articulo 3o minimo ; 

 alee macula antemedia argenteo-albida fusco marginata, linea 

 postmedia fusca angulosa undulata, fascia marginali purpu- 

 rascente-fusco marginata, fimbria ochracea; antica? costa sub- 

 ochracea, linea antemedia fusca angulosa, macula exteriore 

 argenteo-albida fusco marginata. 



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

 Head, palpi and fore part of the thorax ochraceous. Palpi porrect, 

 rostriform, silvery white beneath, much shorter than the breadth of 

 the head ; third joint very minute. Wings elongate ; an antemedial 

 silvery whitish brown-bordered spot ; a brown postmedial zigzag 

 deeply undulating line ; a purplish marginal band, which is zigzag 

 and brown -bordered on its inner side ; fringe ochraceous. Fore 

 wings acute ; costa dull ochraceous ; a brown zigzag line on the 

 inner side of the first spot ; a larger silvery whitish brown-bordered 

 spot beyond the first; exterior border convex, moderately oblique. 

 Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. Java. Presented by the Secretary of the India Board. 



