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An Indo-Malayan genus of moderate extent; two of the 

 undermentioned species are found outside of Australia. In 

 this and the following genus great care is necessary to separate 

 the species, the markings in many instances being extremely 

 similar. 



1. Fore wings rather shoi% stigma present, 

 markings bright orange-yellow, 



cell with streak of ground color... 57 Mamas, male. 

 Forewings rather long, markings red- 

 dish orange, anterior two-thirds 

 of cell, filled in with gi'ound 

 color ... ... ... ... 3 



:2. Posterior edges of transverse band 

 of forewings continued as 

 fine streaks along veins to ter- 

 men, stiigma present ... ... 59 Augias, male. 



Posterior edges of transverse band 

 of forewings, not or hardly reach- 

 ing termen ; stigma present ... QO Banihusce,m2ilQ 

 3. Sipot in cell of hindwings well marked 58 Ohara, female. 

 Spot in cell of hindwings not well 

 marked ... ... ... ... 1 



57. Telicota marxas, Feld. 



{Pampliila mamas, Feld., Sitzb. A.K. Wiss. Wien. Math. 

 Nat. CI., xl., p. 462, n. 53, 1860; Ehves ami Edw., Rev. Orient. 

 Hesp., p. 256, 1897). 



Male and Female, 24-30 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and 

 abdomen blackish, mixed with greenish ochreous hairs, 

 abdominal segments orange, palpi beneath yellow, thorax and 

 abdomen beneath orange. Legs dull orange. Antennae 

 blackish, spotted beneath with orange, club beneath orange, 

 apical third black. Forewings elongate, triangular, rather 

 short, costa arched at base, faintly sinuate in middle, termen 

 rounded, oblique; blackish-fuscous, with orange markings; a 

 rather thick costal streak from base to middle, leaving extreme 

 •costal edge blackish; cell filled up with orange, except at 

 posterior extremity, which is blackish and causes the orange 

 coloring tO' appear rounded above and below ; a naiTow streak 

 of ground color in middle of cell, attenuated anteriorly ; an 

 oblique transverse series of 3 subcostal spots at two-thirds from 

 base; a very small (in some specimens moderate), spot con- 

 siderably beyond and below subcostal spots between veins) 4 and 

 5 ; a smaller spot obliquely above and touching last, absent in 



