592 CATALOGUE OF 



Male. Cinereous-testaceous, whitish beneath. Head white 

 about the eyes. Palpi porrect, fawn-colour, much compressed, as 

 long as the head, white beneath. Abdomen extending rather beyond 

 the hind wings. Legs smooth ; fore legs with fawn-coloured bands. 

 Wings purplish cinereous, semihyaline ; interior and exterior lines 

 a little darker, very indistinct, the latter as usual much bent ; exterior 

 border slightly ochraceous, with an indistinct brownish line ; fringe 

 white, brown at the base. Fore wings testaceous along the costa ; 

 orbicular and reniform marks blackish ; the latter narrow, interlined 

 with white. Hind wings testaceous and thickly pilose near the 

 interior border. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 18 

 lines. 



a, b. West Coast of America. Presented by Capt. Kellett and 



Lieut. Wood. 

 c,d. Villa Nova. From Mr. Bates' collection. 

 e. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



68. BOTYS FINITAL1S. 



Var. ? Mas. Pallide cervina, gracilis; palpi fusci, porrecti, 

 latiusculi, subtus albi ; antenna? pubescentes ; pectus antice 

 album; pedes glabri, femoribus tibiisque anticis supra fuscis ; 

 aim jlava, iridescentes, semihyalina, fascia marginali pallide 

 purpurascente intus fusco marginata, linea exteriore fusca 

 denticulata undulata, linea marginali fiava fusco punctata ; 

 antica acuta, costa fasci ague basali diffusa cervinis, orbiculari 

 et reniformi cervino marginatis, gutta postica cervina. 



Bolys finitalis, Guen. Delu et PyraL 335, 376. 



Var.P Male. Pale fawn-colour, slender, whitish beneath. 

 Palpi brown, porrect, rather broad, white beneath, nearly as long as 

 the head ; joints indistinct. Antennae pubescent. Pectus white in 

 front. Abdomen extending rather far beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs smooth ; fore femora and fore tibia? brown above. Wings 

 yellow, iridescent, semihyaline, with a lilac marginal band which is 

 bounded on the inner side by a straight brown line ; exterior line 

 brown, denticulated, undulating ; interior line incomplete; marginal 

 line yellow, with brown points ; fringe cinereous. Fore wings acute, 

 fawn-coloured along the costa, and with a diffuse basal fawn-coloured 

 line ; orbicular and reniform marks with fawn-coloured borders ; a 

 fawn-coloured dot behind the latter. Length of the body 7 lines ; 

 of the wings 14 lines. 



Brazil. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



