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Show 1877.] ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS. 619 at the apex and a tuft on first joint of tarsi ochreous ; hind clothed with brown hairs above. Expanse lg inch. S. Andamans. In coll. British Museum. Calcutta District. In coll. F. Moore. Allied to P. maliferalis, but differs in the absence of the black spot at end of the cell in both wings, and in the different-coloured palpi. AUXOMITIA MIRIFICALIS, Lederer, Wien. ent. Monat. vii. p. 391, pl. 13. f. 1 (1863). Nicobars; S. Andamans (Port Blair). Fam. BOTYD.SE. BOTYS ILLISALIS, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xviii. p. 653 ; Lederer, Wien. ent. Mon. vii. pl. 9. f. 12. S. Andamans (Port Blair). BOTYS MULTILINEALIS, Guen. Delt. et Pyr. p. 327, pl. 8. f. 11; Lederer, Wien. ent. Mon. vii. pl. 11. f. 3. Zebronia salomealis, Walk. Catal. Lep. B. M. xviii. p. 476. B. annuligeralis, Walk. (/. ci) Suppl. p. 1424. S. Andamans (Port Blair). BOTYS SCINISALIS. (Plate LX. fig. 11.) Botys scinisalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. B. M. xviii. p. 648 (1859). B. disjunctalis, Walk. Des. of Und. Lep. Het. p. 96 (1869). S. Andamans (Port Blair). BOTYS ARDEALIS, Felder, Novara-Reise, Lep. iv. pl. 131. f. 31. Nicobars. BOTYS STULTALIS, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xviii. p. 669 S. Andamans (Port Blair). BOTYS THOASALIS. (Plate LX. fig. 16.) Botys thoasalis, Walk. (1. c.) p. 692. S. Andamans (Port Blair). BOTYS VINACEALIS, n. sp. Allied to B. caletnrialis, Walk. Male. Pale glossy purplish-brown ; fore wing with an indistinct blackish streak crossing end of the cell, a transverse zigzag line before the apex, another below the cell, and a similar recurved zigzag line on hind wing; both wings with a marginal row of narrow blackish lunules. Body and antennae pale brown, tip of abdomen above white. Fore legs* with white bands, mid legs streaked laterally with white ; palpi dark brown, basal joint white. Expanse l-f0 inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. British Museum. |