LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 579 



55. Botts Creonalis. 



Mas et foera. Cinerea, gracilis ; palpi fusci, breves, lati, porrecti, 

 subtus albi ; pedes glabri, graciles ; alee nitentes, sat angustce, 

 lineis tribus fuscis vix arcuatis, linea marginali fusca dupli- 

 cata; anticce apud costam obscuriores, linea exteriore dis- 

 juncta, reniformi perangmta obscure fusca, litura costali 

 albida ; posticce lineis tribus apud angulum interiorem ap- 

 proximatis. 



Male and female. Cinereous, slender, whitish beneath. Palpi 

 broad, short, brown, porrect, white beneath. Antennae bare, slen- 

 der. Abdomen extending rather beyond the hind wings. Legs 

 smooth, slender ; spurs very long. Wings shining, rather narrow, 

 with the interior, exterior and submarginal lines brown, slender, 

 well defined, hardly curved, converging towards the interior angle 

 of the hind wings; marginal line brown, double. Fore wings 

 acute, darker along the costa ; the exterior line dislocated in the 

 middle, and with a whitish costal mark on its exterior side ; reni- 

 form mark dark brown, very narrow, somewhat lunulate. Length 

 of the body A\ lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



a, b. St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 



56. Botys Vestalis. 



Cinerea ; palpi porrecti, pilosi, apice obtusi ; abdominis segmenta 

 albido marginata ; pedes glabri, sat robusti; alee nebulosce 

 lineis interiore et exteriore nigricantibus denliculatis indis- 

 tinctis pallido submarginatis, punctis marginali bus fuscis dif- 

 fusi° ; nnticce linea exteriore valde flexa, orbiculari punctu 

 formi et reniformi lunulata nigricantibus. Mas. — Antennce 

 pubescentes. 



Male and female. Cinereous, slender, paler beneath. Palpi 

 porrect, short, bro-;^ bou se ' wn * te beneath. Antenna? pubescent 

 iu the male. AbdornV .".tending rather beyond the hind wings; 

 hind borders of the segmt h ^A whitish. Legs smooth, rather stout ; 

 spurs long. Wings clouded, with the interior and exterior lines 

 * blackish, denticulated, indistinct, slightly pale-bordered, the latter 

 extremely bent in the fore wings ; marginal points brown, diffuse. 

 Fore wings acute ; orbicular and reniform marks blackish, the 

 former punctitorm, the latter lunulate. Length of the body 5 

 lines; of the wings 10 lines. 



a, b. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



