Neobotyodes crocopteralis (Hampson, 1898), comb. nov.

(Fig: 5–6, 19, 20, 31)

Botyodes crocopteralis Hampson, 1898; Proc. Gen. Meet. Sci. Busi. Zoo. Soc., London, 1898: 710.

Description: Male. Wing expanse: 35 mm (Fig. 5).

Head. Vertex fuscous brown, under side white, distinct scales at proboscis. Antennae of males simple, slightly shorter than costal length of forewings.

Thorax. Forewings fuscous brown with an oblique, orange-yellow broad band from middle of costa to anal angle; slightly constricted at middle. Hindwings uniformly fuscous brown. Abdomen. Black.

Male genitalia (Figs. 19–20). Uncus short, almost rectangular with a minute notch at apex, edges setosed; tegumen short; valvae narrow, elongated, tongue shaped, a strong thumb like process from basal half of inner wall; juxta with two broad apical arms; vesica with a curved cornutus having two spines at apex and another long ray of compactly placed small spines.

Female. Wing expanse: 37 mm. (Fig. 6).

Head. Vertex bright golden-yellow; palpi black, white below.

Thorax. Forewings orange with fuscous brown ante-medial spot on median nervure, a reniform at disco-cellular, a post-medial spot below vein Cu 2, whole apical area fuscous brown with rounded inner edge, underside of forewing having basal part of costal area suffused with black. Hindwings with post-medial black spot above vein M 2, having specks above and below it; a spot below vein Cu 2, having speck below it.

Abdomen. Yellow, with black irrorations.

Female genitalia (Fig. 31). Ductus bursae wrinkly sclerotised; corpus bursae membranous, oval.

Material examined: (3 ♂ ♂, 3 ♀ ♀): India: Arunachal Pradesh: Sessa, 11.v.13 — 2 ♂ ♂, 2 ♀ ♀ ; Mizoram: Hmuifang, 1.x.13 — 1♂, 1♀ .

Distribution: North East India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand (Robinson et al. 1994); Bhutan, (Irungbam et al. 2016)