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CXX. ELIBIA.— Typns : doUchus. 



^jihiiir {Choernmmpa). Westwood {mm Linm', 175S ; nun Duponchel, 1835), Cah. Or. Eiii. p. 61 



(1848). 

 Elil,hi Walker, LUl Up. Ins. /?. .1/. viii. p. 148 (1850) (type : (hUchis). 



3 ? . Palpus large, vonmled iu side-view, third segment above frons. Eye 

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

 length of the cell of hiudwing ; first segment of hindtarsus a little longer than 

 tibia ; comb of midtarsus very prominent, the spines much 2Ji"olonged and accom- 

 panied on the hinder side by another row of slender prolonged spines. Ape.x of 

 hindwing very obtuse ; 8C- and R' shortly stalked. 



S. Tenth tergite slightly narrowed iu middle, ajiex truncate, angles rounded ; 

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

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

 friction-scales of clasper acuminate, not truncate ; harpe short (PI. XLVIII. f. 10), 

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

 dorsally. Penis-sheath nearly symmetrieal (PL LIV. f. 21), both tlie right and left 

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

 process continued on the sheath. 



?. Vaginal plate as in Ampelophaga and Deilephila, but broader apically. 



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

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

 prominence in last stage. 



Bab. North India to Java and Palawan. 



One species. 



440. Elibia dolichus. 



♦•V"'"-'' {Choernciimpa) dnlifhus Westwood, Cab. Or. Enf. p. Gl. t. ?fl. i. 1 (1848) (Silhet ;— Mus. 



Oxford). 

 Elibia (Udirliiis, Walker, List Lep. Inn. B. M. viii. p. 149. n. 1 (IS.'jG) ; Moore, in Horsf. & Moore, 



Cal. Lep. Lix. .Vus. E. I. C. i. p. 27.3. r. G31 (18,^7) (Silhet) ; Moore, Pr„c. Zml. Sor. Loud. 



p. 675 (1867) (Silhet) ; Boisd., Sjiec. Gni. Up. Hit. i. p. 179. n. 2 (1875) ; Butl., Tram). Zool. 



Hoc. Loiul. ix. p. 547. D. 1 (1877) (Silhet) ; Snell., Tijihchr. Enl. xx. p. 67 (1877) (Sumatra); 



Cot. & Swinh., Oit. Moths fiul. i. p. 9. n. 50 (18S7) (Sikhim ; Sib.sagar ; Silhet) ; Swinh., Cat. 



Lep. Ilel. .Mux. Ox. i. p. 10. n. 41 (1892) (.Silhet; Singapore; Cambodia); Kirby, Oit. Lep. 



net. i. p. 062. n. 1 (1892) (Silhet); Hamps,, in Blanf., Famui Brit. Iml, .Moths i. p. 100. 



n. 109. f. ,07 (J) (1892) (Sikhim ; Assam ; Sumatra) ; Pagenst., Jahrb. Na«s. Ver. Nat. xlvii. 



p. 38 (1894) (E. Java) ; Huwe, Bcrl. Eiit. Zeitsrhr. xl. p. 3G.5. n. 80 (1895) (Java) ; Semp., 



Hehm. Phiiipp. ii. p. 403. n. 48 (1896) (Palawan) ; Piep., Tijdsrhr. Enl. xl. p. 97. t. 1. f. 5. 10. 



15 (horn of /.), p. 101. t. 4. f. 1. 2. 3 (/.) (1897) (Java); Dudg., .I,n,rn. Bombiti/ N. II. Sor. xl 



p. 415. D. 159 (1X98) (Sikhim, Bhutan, up to 4(J00 ft,, v. xii.). 

 Chnerocanipa dolirliiia, Mtfinf'triiSs, Euuin. Corp. .lii'un. .Uiis. I'etr., Lep. ii. Snppl. p. 93. n. 1545 



(1857). 



6 ?. Forewing witii .seven lines hetweeii lower angle of cell ;nid outer margin, 

 firHt and fifth lieuvy, tiie others often weakly marked, second, third, fourth, and 

 sixth sometimes distin(;tly accentnated by vein-dots ; lines between lower angle of 

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

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

 markings on the proximal sternitcs. 



J/ri/j. Sikhim to Java and Palawan. 



In the Tring Museum l^i (JcJ, 8 ? ¥ fmm ; Sikhim ; Klnisiu Hills ; Penang ; 

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



