Moths . t; veins 3, 4, 5approximated for a short distance; 6, 7 from upper angle or shortlystalked, 7 anastomosing with 8. Sect. I. (Botyodes). Antennae of male with four teeth on thebasal joint enclosing a hollow ; mid femora with a smallgrooved tuft at middle. 4948. Botyodes asialis, Guen. Belt, Sf Pyr. p. 321; Moore, Lep. , pi. 183, figs. 1, 1 a (larva); C. # 8. no. 4034. Orange-yellow; male with the anal tuft black. Fore wing withfulvous speck below median nervure near base; an oblique maculatefulvous antemedial line ; a speck in cell and discocellular ocellus ;.an interrupted sinu
Moths . t; veins 3, 4, 5approximated for a short distance; 6, 7 from upper angle or shortlystalked, 7 anastomosing with 8. Sect. I. (Botyodes). Antennae of male with four teeth on thebasal joint enclosing a hollow ; mid femora with a smallgrooved tuft at middle. 4948. Botyodes asialis, Guen. Belt, Sf Pyr. p. 321; Moore, Lep. , pi. 183, figs. 1, 1 a (larva); C. # 8. no. 4034. Orange-yellow; male with the anal tuft black. Fore wing withfulvous speck below median nervure near base; an oblique maculatefulvous antemedial line ; a speck in cell and discocellular ocellus ;.an interrupted sinuous postmedial line inwardly oblique fromvein 5 to 2 ; a highly sinuous submarginal line, with the areabeyond it fulvous except at apex. Hind wing with discocellular 326 ptealid^:. ocellus; a postmedial sinuous line highly bent outwards betweenveins 5 and 3; the marginal area fulvous with a grey tinge,narrowing to anal angle and with its inner edge sinuous; bothwings with the cilia fuscous, grey at Fig. 186.—Botyodes asialis, $. \. Larva short and thick; olive-green with reddish lateral band;;small hair-bearing dorsal and sublateral and two series of largerlateral black spots; head black, the vertex yellow. Pupa green,with short anal point and antennal sheath. Pood-plant, Ficus. Sab. Baluchistan; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma;Borneo. Exp. 50 millim. 4949. Botyodes principalis, Leech, Entom. xxii, p. 69, pi. 3, fig. maculalis, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv, p. 198. Differs from asialis in being sulphur-yellow. Fore wing withthe postmedial hue reduced to specks, slightly sinuous and moreregularly inwardly oblique; the submarginal line only representedby diffused fuscous patches on the inner side of the daxk fulvousmarginal area. Hind wing with dark discocellular speck; thepostmedial line with its sinus dentate and with diffused fuscouspatches towards costa and inner margin; a highly dentate sub-marginal line; a small fulvous apical patch, with fuscous patch
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