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CXX. ELIBIA.— Typus : dolichxs. 



'^pliiii.r {Ch(ierncampa). Westwood {mm Linni', 175S ; nnn Duponchel, 1835), Cab. Or. Eiit. p. Gl 



(1848). 

 Ellhia Walker, LUt Lep. Lis. IS. .1/. viii. p. 148 (1850) (type : dolichii^). 



c??. Palpns large, ronnded in side-view, third segment above frons. Eye 

 very large, not lashed. Ahdoraen very long". Tarsi long, hind ones twice the 

 length of the cell of hindwing ; first segment of hindtarsns a little longer than 

 tibia ; comb of midtarsus very prominent, the spines mnch prolonged and accom- 

 jjanied on the hinder side by another row of slender prolonged s])ines. Apex of 

 liiiidwing very obtnse : SO- and ]V sliortly stalked. 



S- Tenth tergite slightly narrowed in middle, apex trnncate, angles rounded ; 

 sternite as long as the tergite, strongly compressed, broad vertically, ventral line 

 strongly curved upwards in lateral aspect, apex rounded in distal view. Large 

 friction -scales of clasper acuminate, not truncate ; harpe short (PI. XLVIII. f. In), 

 represented by a rather thin ridge, which is truncate distally and feebly angulate 

 dorsally. Penis-sheath nearly symmetrical (PI. LIV. f. 21), both the right and left 

 processes denticnlate at the edges and on the surface, the dentition of the left 

 ])rocess continued on the sheath. 



?. Vaginal plate as in Ampelophaya and JJeikphila, but broader apically. 



Larva. Three stages figured by Piepers : a round dorsal ocellus on fourth 

 segment ; horn curved frontad in younger stages, reduced to a button-like 

 prominence in last stage. 



Ilah. North India to Java and Palawan. 



One species. 



441). Elibia dolichus. 



*^lihiiir {C/inrnjnimpa) ihiUrhis Westwood, C'r//y. dr. Enl. p. Gl. t. .30. f. 1 (1848) (Silhet :— Mus. 



Oxford). 

 Klihiii (Inl/chiis, Walker, List Lep, Lis. B. M. viii. p. 149. n. 1 (I8.06) ; Moore, in Horsf. & Moore, 



Cat. Lep. 7/i.s. .Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 273. D. G31 (1857) (Silhet) ; Moore, Pmc. Zonl. Sue. Loud. 



p. G75 (18G7) (Silhet) : Boisd., Spec. Ghi. Lep. Net. i. p. 179. n. 2 (1876) ; Butl., Trans. Z„„L 



Sne. Load. ix. p. 547. n. 1 (1877) (Silhet) ; SnelL, Tijdsrhr. E,il. xx. p. 67 (1877) (Sumatra) ; 



Cot. & Swinh., Ott. Moths Ltd. i. p. 9. n. 50 (1887) (Sikhim ; Sibsagar ; Silhet) ; Swinh., Cat. 



Lep. Bet. Mus. Ox. i. p. 10. n. 41 (1892) (Silhet ; Singapore ; Cambodia) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. 



Bet. i. p. CG2. n. 1 (1892) (Silhet) ; Hamps., in Blanf., Faniia Brit. Lid., Moths i. p. 100. 



n. 159. f. 57 (cJ) (1892) (Sikhim ; Assam ; Sumatra) ; P.agenst., Jahrh. Nass. Ver. Nat. xlvii. 



p. 38 (1894) (E. Java) ; Huwe, Berl. Ent. Zeitsrhr. xl. p. 365. n. 30 (1895) (Java) ; Semp., 



Rrhm. Phitipp. ii. p. 403. n. 48 (1896) (Palawan) : Piep., Tijdsrhr. Eiit. xl. p. 97. t. 1. f. 5. 10. 



15 (horn of /.), p. 101. t. 4. f. 1. 2. 3 (/.) (1897) (Java) ; Dudg., Jmirn. Bombai/ N. B. Sor. xi. 



p. 415. n. 159 (1898) (Sikhim, Bhutan, up to 40OO ft., v. xii.). 

 Chacrocuinpia dulirhiis, Menetrit's, Eiium. Corp. Aidm. .Mus. Petr., Lep. ii. Supp!. p. 9.''. D. 1545 



(1857). 



c??. Forewing with seven lines between lower angle of cell and outer margin, 

 first and fifth heavy, the others often weakly marked, second, third, fourth, and 

 sixth sometimes distinctly accentuated by vein-dots ; lines between lower angle of 

 cell and costal margin feeble, that traversing the large, black, white-centred stigma 

 the most obvious. Abdomen white below, with ferruginous-tawny or brown mesial 

 markings on the proximal sternites. 



I/(id. Sikhim to Java and Palawan. 



Li the Tring Museum 18 c?c?, S ? ? from ; Sikhim ; Khasia Hills ; Penang ; 

 Sumatra ; Java ; Buuguran, Natuna Is. (Hose) ; Borneo; Palawan. 



