ERIONOTA 1 5 



GENUS ERIONOTA. 



Eric/nota, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxi. p. 34 (1878); 



Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 393 (1886). 



The species of this, and one or two allied genera, are con- 

 fined to the Indian Region, and are (with the exception of one 

 African species) the largest Hesperiidce known. 



ERIONOTA THRAX. 



(Plate LXIX. Fig. 4.) 



Papilio thrax. Linn. Syst. Nat. (ed. xii.) i. (2) p. 794, no. 260 



(1767); Donovan, Ins. Ind. pi. 49, fig. 2 (1800). 

 Hesperia thrax, Latreille, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 748, no. 53 



(1823). 

 Erionota thrax, Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 393, pi. 34, fig. 17 



p. 367, figs, in (transf.) (1886). 

 Casyapa thrax, Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 291, pi. 98 



(1888). 



This species, which sometimes measures nearly three inches 

 in expanse, is brown, with three pale yellow spots on the fore- 

 wings, one large square one before the end of the cell, a 

 larger oblong one obliquely below it, between the two lowest 

 median nervules; and a third smaller one, transverse, and 

 placed between the two upper median nervules nearer the 

 hind-margin ; the under side is paler. 



The larva, which feeds in Java on the "Pisang" (Musa 

 paradisaica\ is white, with long white woolly hair. It also 

 feeds on Platanus. The p -1 P a is yellowish-white. 



This species is found in most parts of the Indo- Malayan 

 Region, and extends beyond it into Celebes. 



Another species, closely resembling this, and equally com- 

 mon in India, Ceylon, Malacca, and Java, is Gangara thyrsis 

 (Fabricius), a larger and darker insect, with broader hind- 



