LEPIDOPTEEA HETEROCERA. 
997 
Female . Pale oehraceous fawn-colour, slender, white beneath. 
Head white about the eyes; Palpi porrect, broad, acute, as long as 
the breadth of the head, pure white beneath, as is also the tablet or 
fore pectus. Maxillary palpi distinct, obliquely ascending. An- 
tenme smooth, slender. Abdomen whitish cinereous, testaceous at 
the tip, extending a little beyond the hind wings. Legs smooth. 
Wings rather broad, iridescent. Fore wings acute ; interior and 
exterior lines, lunulate reniform mark and exterior border rather 
darker; exterior line much bent. Hind wings whitish, more hya- 
line ; exterior line and exterior border darker. Length of the body 
6 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 
Belongs to the fourth Asiatic group. 
a . Shanghai. From Mr. Fortune’s collection . 
Botys Crotonalis. 
Fcem. Fusca, robusta ; palpi latiusculi , areuati , ascendentes , 
articulo 3 o miuirno ; palpi maxillares distincti ; abdomen 
alas posticus vix superans ; alee purpureo-futcce , lineis inte - 
riore et exteriore nigricantibus denticulatis indislinctis ; an - 
ticce acutce , linea exteriore jlexa , orbiculari et reniformi 
annularibus indistinctis. 
Female . Brown, robust, whitish beneath. Palpi curved, 
rather broad, obliquely ascending, not rising above the head, white 
beneath at the base ; third joint very minute, not longer than broad. 
Maxillary palpi distinct. Antennae slender. Fore pectus pure 
while. Abdomen hardly extending beyond the hind wings. Fore 
knees and tips of the fore tibiae brown. Wings broad, purple- 
tinged ; interior and exterior lines blackish, denticulated, indistinct. 
Fore wings acute; exterior line bent; orbicular and reniform marks 
forming two blackish indistinct ringlets, the latter elongated and 
about twice the size of the former. Length of the body 6 lines ; 
of the wings 16 lines. 
Nearly allied to B. Sulcialis and to several other Borneo 
species, from which it may be distinguished by its broader wings, 
a, b. Ceylon. Presented by B. Templeton, Esq. 
