CEBATARCHA. — BOTYODE3. 



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4947. Ceratarcha umbrosa, Swinh. A.M.N. H. (6) xiv, p. 200. 



S . Ochreous brown, the wings striated with black. Tore wing 

 with indistinct subbasal and antemedial lines ; a prominent black 

 rspot in cell and larger spot at end of : t ; a sinuous postmedial 



line sharply recurved along 

 vein 2, then wider, the area 

 beyond it much browner. 

 Hind wing with black spot at 

 end of cell, with prominent 

 black irroration below it ; a 

 poitnredial black line highly 

 excur^ed and minutely den- 

 tate between veins 5 and 2 ; 

 the outer area browner, 

 of black spots and white 



Fig. 185. — Ceratarcha urnbrosa 



Both wings with marginal series 

 line. 



2 much more uniformly suffused with fuscous and with the 

 markings fuscous. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Khasis ; Nagas. Eocjp. 34 millim. 



Genus B0TY0DES. 



Botyodes, Guen. Belt. # Pyr. p. 320 (1854). 

 Endocrossis, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 515. 



Type, B. asialis, Gruen. 



Range. Oriental region ; New Guinea. 



Palpi upturned and reaching vertex of head ; the 2nd joint 

 broadly rounded with scales in front ; the 3rd naked, short, and 

 blunt ; maxillary palpi filiform ; frons rounded : antennae of male 

 minutely ciliated ; mid tibiae fringed on outer side with hair ; 

 hind tibiae with tufts of hair on outer side at base and extremity ; 

 the outer spurs half the length of inner. Fore wing with veins 

 ,3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 7 closely approximated to 8, 9 for about 

 one-third length. Hind wing with the cell short ; veins 3, 4, 5 

 approximated for a short distance; 6, 7 from upper angle or shortly 

 stalked, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Sect. I. (Botyodes). Antennae of male with four teeth on the 

 basal joint enclosing a hollow ; mid femora with a small 

 grooved tuft at middle. 



4948. Botyodes asialis, Guen. Belt, Sf Pyr. p. 321 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 

 iii, pi. 183, figs. 1, 1 a (larva) ; C. # 8. no. 4034. 



Orange-yellow; male with the anal tuft black. Fore wing with 

 fulvous speck below median nervure near base; an oblique maculate 

 fulvous antemedial line ; a speck in cell and discocellular ocellus ; 

 .an interrupted sinuous postmedial line inwardly oblique from 

 vein 5 to 2 ; a highly sinuous submarginal line, with the area 

 beyond it fulvous except at apex. Hind wing with discocellular 



