1454 CATALOGUE OF • 



base; second line much dilated in front, and including a curved 

 streak of the ground hue, forked hindward; third dislocated in the 

 middle, its hind part joining at each end a marginal brown band, 

 which is continued along the apical part of the interior border ; ex- 

 terior border hardly convex, rather oblique. Hind wings with the 

 second line broad, irregularly attenuated hindward ; third abbrevi- 

 ated at some distance from the interior angle ; a darker brown 

 marginal line. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 



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



BOTYS? COLUMBAXIS. 



Fcem. Cinereo-fusca , ceneo nitens ; caput album; palpi albi, la.fi, 

 oblique ascendentes, cinereo-fusco late marginati, arliculo So 

 brevlssimo ; antenna longiusculce, gracillima ; alee latiuscula?, 

 linea marginali fusca, fimbria albida fusco inter lineata ; an- 

 ticm purpureo nitentes, a pice rotundata, striga costali lata 

 aurato-Jlava strigague subcostali alba connexis. 



Female. Cinereous-brown, tinged with aeneous. Body beneath 

 and legs silvery while. Head white. Palpi white, broad, obliquely 

 ascending, with a broad cinereous-brown band on the outer side, not 

 rising higher than the vertex; third joint extremely short. Antennae 

 very slender, rather long. Abdomen extending much beyond the 

 hind wings. Legs slender. Wings rather broad, with a brown 

 marginal line; fringe whitish, interlined with brown. Fore wings 

 rounded at the tips, slightly purple-tinged, with a broad gilded 

 yellow costal streak, which is connected along its hind side with a 

 shorter white iridescent streak ; exterior border convex, slightly ob- 

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



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



BOTVS ACUM1NATALIS. 



Fcem. Fusca ; oculi albo marginati ; palpi porrecti, lati, breves, 

 subius nivei ; abdominis sey men ta albo marginata ; alee elon- 

 gates, punctis murginalibus nigris ; anticce linea alba undulata, 

 strigis tribus cinereis longitudinalibus, la puncla dua nigra 

 inchxdente, 3a brevi ; posticce basi cinerece, gutta subcostali 

 . nigricante, linea alba recta. 



Female. Brown, rather stout. Head white about the eyes. 

 Palpi porrect, broad, short, pure white beneath. Antennae slender. 



