56 TELICOTA. 



less elongate spots placed between the nervules, of which the two upper- 

 most are the longest and the third and fourth shortest, black ; the 

 discal fascia has its central area paler in hue ; posterior wings with the 

 costal and basal areas, excluding cell, a broad scalloped outer marginal 

 fascia widening towards anal angle, abdominal area and the neuration 

 black ; fringe of both wings greyish-ochraceous. Anterior wings beneath 

 as above, but the black discal fascia shorter, and the outer marginal spots 

 more or less obsolete ; posterior wings beneath with only traces of the 

 black markings above. Body above fuscous, beneath greyish-ochraceous ; 

 legs dark ochraceous. 



Expanse wings, 30 to 33 millim." (Distant, I. c.) 



Recorded from the Andamans (Wood-Mason and de Niceville) ; Calcutta 

 (de Niceville) ; Bengal (Moore) ; Orissa (Taylor)', Cachar (Wood-Mason and 

 de Niceville) ; Myadoung, U. Burmah (Butler) ; Poona, Mhow, (Swinhoe); 

 Sikkim (Elwes). 



I have also obtained this at Berhampore, Ganjam. 



Messrs. Wood-Mason and de Niceville" state that this species may be 

 known from T. bambttsce by the golden coloration of the upperside of the 

 forewing extending along the veins to the outer margin, and being 

 throughout paler. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



75. TELICOTA BAMBUS/E, MOORE. 



Pamphila bambusw, Moore, P. Z. S., 1878, p. 691, pi. xlv, fig. u, 



12, , ?. 



Telicotabambusce, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 170, pi. 71, fig. 4 (1881.) 

 Telicota bainbusre, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 382, pi. xxxv, fig. 12 (1886.) 

 " Allied to P. angias, Linnaeus, from typical Java specimens of which 

 it differs in its somewhat broader and less pointed wings. Markings above 

 similar, but more defined, the borders of the wings blacker, the basal 

 yellow streak on hindwing confined to a terminal spot at the end of the 

 cell, and the abdominal border black. On the underside the markings 

 are also more clearly defined and the interspaces blacker. 

 Expanse : $ if , ? if inches. 



Habitat : Calcutta. Larva feeds on bamboo." (Moore, 1. c. in P.Z.S.) 



Also recorded from Ceylon (Wade, Mackwood) ; Sikkim (Elwes', 



de Niceville) ; Kumaon (Doherty) ; Calcutta (de Niceville) ; Cachar 



(Wood-Mason and de Niceville); Orissa (Taylor)-, Hatsiega, Upper Tenas- 



serim (Limborg) ; Nilgiris (Hampson). 



I have obtained this commonly at Berhampore, Ganjam, and in 

 Madras, also rarely at Rangoon. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



* Journ. A. S. B., vol. Iv, pt. 2, p, 384, n. 224, pi. xvii, fig. i, (1886). 



