PAMPEILIN^. 125 



AMPITTIA DIOSCORIDES. 

 Plate 78fi, figs. 1, ^ , la, 9 i 1'^ 6 > ^o, 5 , Id, larva and pupa. 



Hespi'ria dioscorides, Fabricius, Eat. Sy.st. iii. p. 32'J (1793). Aurivillius, Eiit. Tidsk. 1897, p. 1.50. 



Anijjittia dioscorides, Friihstorfef, Iri.s, 191U, p. 97. 



Hesperia maro, Fal)ricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. ]). 432, ^ (1798). 



Cydopides maro, Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 279, pi. 2, fig. 12, ^ (1869). 



Pamphila maro, Druce, Proc. Zuol. Soc. 1874, p. 109. 



Aiitpittia maro, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 172, pi. 71, figs. 1, la (1881); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, 

 p. 262. Butler, id. 1883, p. 154. de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 53. Wood- 

 Masou and de Niceville, id. 1886, p. 385. Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1886, p. 53. 

 Hauipson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 366. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1888, 

 p. 27 ; id. Hesp. Ind. p. Gl (1891) ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 57. Fergus.son, id. 

 p. 447. Betham, id. 1893, p. 427. Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 96. de Niceville, 

 Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 182 (1894). de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 

 1895, p. 535. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 429; id. idem, x. 1896, p. 676. 

 Davidson, Bell and Aitken, id. xi. 1897, p. 54, pi. 8, fig. 10 (larva and pupa). Elwes and 

 Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 186. Adamson, Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 

 1908, p. 142. Evans, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xx. 1910, p. 388. 



Telicota maro, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 383, pi. 35, figs. 14, ^ , 15, ^ (1886). 



Ci/cliipideg camertes, Hewitson, Desc. Hesp. p. 43, ^ (1868). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 74. 



Thymelicus palemoiiid.es, Snellen, Midd. Sum. Lep. p. 28 (1892). 



Imago. — Male. Upper.side. Forewlmi bright golden-yellow, costal line black, 

 outer margin with a broad even black band, slightly but squarely bulged inward at the 

 hinder angle, a broad black baud on the hinder margin with two goldeu-yelhjw spots in 

 it, one a little before the middle, the other a little beyond the middle ; a IJack band 

 running up from the middle of tlie hinder marginal band to the costa one-third before 

 the apex, throwing out a cross Ijand from above its middle and joining the marginal 

 band ; in some examples this diseal band is disconnected from the costa from the cross- 

 bar. Hindwing blackish-brown, with an irregular-shaped, short, broad, diseal, golden- 

 yellow band, composed of spots divided l>y the veins, the two centre ones elongated, 

 the lower ones small. Cilia brown, touched in parts with goldeu-yellow, especially at 

 the anal angle. Underside. Forewing as above, but the extreme outer margin is more 

 or less golden-yellow. Hindwing with the ground colour golden-yellow, most of the 

 wing covered with minute brown scales, the diseal patch as above, edged with pale 

 In-own, and a series of pale brown sub-marginal spots all round the wing from the base 

 to the anal angle. Antenna3 black, ringed with yellow, the cIuIj yellow on the under- 

 side and at the tip ; palpi, head and body brown above, palpi and head marked with 

 yellow, all yellow beneath. 



Female. Up[)erside dark brown. Forewing with a yellow spot at the end of the 

 cell, and a diseal series of yellow spots, two, sometimes three, divided by the veins, 

 from near the costa, one-sixth from the apex, two in the middle of the disc in the 



