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deep brown borders; occasionally seen hovering around lighted 
candles in houses at night, both in Jamestown and on the high 
land. It inhabits also Africa, Asia, and Australia. 
Fam. Botyda. 
Botys, Latr. 
B. abstrusalis, Walk.— A dark-brown, medium-sized Moth; 
inhabits also Ceylon and China. 
B. creonalis, Walk. — A small whitish Moth, with waved 
brown markings on the wings. Not very abundant, but sometimes 
seen in lighted rooms at night on the high land. It inhabits 
St. Domingo. 
B. oedipodalis, Gruen. — A very beautiful, large, pure white 
Moth, very rare, but occasionally seen during the daytime, or early 
evening, in the neighbourhood of Southens. Inhabits also the West 
Indies and South America. 
Scopula, Schr. 
S. ferrugalis, Hiibn. — A small-sized, dark-brown Moth, the 
larva of which is a small transparent pale-green caterpillar, about 
three-quarters of an inch in length, the head slightly marked with 
brown, and having sixteen legs — viz., eight in the middle, six near 
the head, and two behind. It is uncommon, and the specimens I 
obtained were taken from a common yellow marigold bush growing 
at an altitude of 1800 feet above the sea. When about to undergo 
change, the caterpillar assumes a primrose tint, envelopes itself in 
leaves bound together by web, and turns into a small mahogany- 
coloured chrysalis, about one-third of an inch in length. It 
inhabits also Europe and Madeira. 
*S. delineatalis, Walk. — A small brownish Moth ; a native, 
of which Mr. Walker gives the following description -.—“Female 
pale cinereous ; forewings, with two broad irregular brown bands, 
one antemedial, the other postmedial, and forked in front, each 
intersected by a zigzag white line, the second of these forked in 
front; a brown line along the exterior margin, bordered on the 
outer side by a white line, which is accompanied by black points ; 
orbicular and reniform marks, blackish. Length of the body 
three and a half lines ; expansion of the forewings nine lines.” 
