ERIONOTA. 



Habitat : N.-E. Bengal." (Moon, I. c.). 



Also recorded from Sikkim (Elwes ; Holler). 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



GENUS XXXVI. ERIONOTA. 



Erionota, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. xxi, p. 34 (1878). 



Erionota, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 390 (1886). 



" Anterior wings moderately long, the inner margin longer than the 

 outer, costal margin very slightly sinuate, inner margin distinctly sinuate. 

 Costal nervure terminating on costa nearly opposite end of cell ; fifth sub- 

 costal nervule emitted at about end of cell : disco- cellular nervules moder- 

 ately oblique, the upper and lower subequal in length ; second median 

 nervule with its base more than twice as far apart from that of lower as 

 from that of upper median nervule. Posterior wings about as broad as 

 long, the costal margin obliquely convex, the outer margin irregularly 

 rounded and slightly sinuate towards anal angle. Subcostal nervules 

 bifurcating at about half the distance before end of cell ; second median 

 nervule emitted at rather more than twice the distance from lower than 

 from upper median nervule, which starts from end of cell. Body long, 

 robust and pilose ; palpi large, broad and considerably compressed, the 

 terminal joint very short ; antennae slender, the apex moderately thickened 

 and curved, not strongly hooked." (Distant, I. c.) 



155. ERIONOTA THRAX, LINN/EUS. 



Papilio thmx, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., vol. i, pt. 2, p. 794, n. 260 (1767). 



Telegonus thrax, de Niceville, J. A. S. B., vol. li, pt. 2, p. 65, n. 196 (1882). 



Erionota thrax, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 393, pi. xxxiv, fig. 17 (1886). 



" Male and female. Wings above chocolate-brown ; anterior wings 

 with three discal pale ochraceous spots, situate one crossing cell, another 

 beneath cell and between the two lower median nervules, and the third 

 and smallest between the first and second median nervules ; posterior 

 wings with the fringe greyish-ochraceous. Wings beneath paler than 

 above ; posterior wings with a discal, rounded, macular, darker fascia. 

 Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Expanse tf and 9 63 to 78 millims." (Distant, I. c.) 



Recorded from Calcutta (de Niceville) ; Bengal (Moore) ; Sikkim (Elwes). 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



156. ERIONOTA ACROLEUCA, WOOD-MASON AND DE NICEVILLE. 



Telegonus acrokucus, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Proc. A. S. B., 

 August, 1881, p. 143. 



Hesperia hiraca, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., September, 1880, 

 P- 3i3 ? 



Hesperia acroleuca, Wood-Mason and de Niceville,]. A. S. B., vol. 1, 

 pt. 2, p. 260, n. 126 (1881). 



