LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 581 



joint very small. Antennae slender. Legs pale ocbraceous. Wings 

 elongate, paler and with a cinereous tinge beneath ; interior and 

 exterior lines blackish, indistinct, slightly curved ; marginal line 

 blackish, very slight ; fringe white, brown at the base. Fore wings 

 subfalcate ; exterior line much bent ; reniform mark blackish, 

 indistinct ; exterior border bent in the middle ; fringe brown at the 

 tips and about the bend. Hind wings with the exterior line abbre- 

 viated hindward. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 12 

 lines. 



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



59. Botys ? Ceresalis. 



Mas. Pallide cervina, subtus alba ; palpi oblique ascendentes,articulo 

 So conico distincto minimo ; antennce non pubescentes ; abdo- 

 men alas posticas vix superans, segmentis albo marginatis ; 

 pedes anteriores cervino fasciatce ; alee iridescentes, linea exte- 

 riore undulatafuscescente, punctis marginalibusnigricantibus ; 

 anticce vix acuta?, fascia basali obliqua lilurisque quinque 

 subcostalibus albis semihyalinis, 



Male. Pale fawn-colour, white beneath. Palpi moderately 

 broad, obliquely ascending to a level with the vertex ; third joint 

 conical, distinct, but very minute. Antennae bare. Abdomen 

 hardly extending beyond the hind wings; hind borders of the seg- 

 ments white. Legs smooth ; anterior femora and tibiae with fawn- 

 coloured bands. Wings very iridescent, with a slight brownish 

 undulating exterior line ; marginal points blackish, forming a con- 

 tiauous line towards the interior angle of the hind wings. Fore 

 wings hardly acute, with a white oblique semihyaline band near the 

 base, and with five white semihyaline marks near the costa ; the 

 second obliquely rhomboidal, much larger than the others, occu- 

 pying the site of tie reniform spot ; costa testaceous, except towards 

 the tip. Length of t^body 4^ lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a, b. St. Domingo. liw^Kr. Tweedie's collection. 



60. BOTYS? C(ECILIALIS. 



Fcem. Lutea ; palpi porrecti, capite non breviores ; abdomen 

 alas posticas perpaullo superans ; pedes glabri ; ala brevius- 

 culce, non nitentes, fascia exteriore lineaque submarginali 



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