40 HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD ON LEPIDOPTERA 



195. Telicota klossi sp. nov. 



(J. Antennae black above, rufous orange below; head and thorax greenish orange 

 fulvous ; abdomen greenish orange fulvous ringed with buffy orange. Forewing brown- 

 black, cell and costal area to end of cell fulvous orange, a fulvous orange postcellular 

 spot, an oblique median band of androconia from vein 1 to vein 4, beyond which is an 

 oblique postmedian fulvous orange band from vein 1 to vein 6 excised inwardly between 

 4 and 6, a greenish fulvous orange band each side of basal half of vein 1. Hindwing 

 brown-black, basal | of cell fulvous orange, a broad discal fulvous orange band reaches 

 from vein 1 to vein 5 which shoots out along vein 1 to base and almost to termen. 

 Fringe of both wings fulvous orange. — ? similar. 



Expanse 38 mm. Length of forewing 17 mm. 



4 33 Base Camp, Nov. 1912— March 1913 (Type Nov. 1912) ; 1 3 Canoe Camp, 

 Dec. 1912 ; 3 cJc? 4 ?? Snow Mountains, 4000-6000 ft., Jan.— Feb. 1913. 



196. Telicota germana sp. nov. 



(?. Similar to T. klossi, but has basal half of cell black on forewings, and the discal 

 band on hindwing much narrower and strongly excised along both edges. 

 Expanse 33 mm. Length of forewing 15 mm. 

 7 36 Snow Mountains, 4000-6000 ft., Jan.— Feb. 1913. 



197. Telicota moorei sp. nov. 



(?. Nearest to T. banibusae Moore, but larger and with the apex of forewing and tornus 

 of hindwing much more produced, making the wings more pointed and comparatively 

 narrower. The bands and patches also are deep fulvous orange, not yellowish orange, 

 and the postdiscal band does not join the costal orange area, there is less orange in 

 cell and the space below has no orange. Below, the hindwings are entirely greenish 

 fulvous orange and the discal band is much less distinct. 



Expanse 42 mm. Length of forewing 19 mm. 



(Expanse of T. bambiiscie 35 mm. Length of fore\ving 15 "5 mm.) 



1 o Base Camp, March 1913. 



198. Telicota apfinis sp. nov. 



(J. Very similar to above, but minus the patch of andrcconia, and below it differs in 

 having on the hindwings the discal band bordered on each side by a distinct line of 

 connected black streaks. 



Expanse 36 mm. Length of forewing 16 mm. 



1 3 Base Camp, March 1913 ; 1 3 Utakwa River, 2500-3000 ft., Feb. 1913. 



