240 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Distribution. — The type was from the Andamans, the type of tympanifera from 

 Pegu. We have it from Sikkim, the Andamans and the Khasia Hills. Watson records 

 it from the Chin Hills and from Orissa ; Evans from the Palni Hills ; Hampson 

 from the Nilgiris ; Elwes from the Karen Hills, Java, Nias and the Philippines ; 

 Davidson, Bell and Aitken from Karwar, where they bred it, but unfortunately 

 did not figure the larva or pupa. 



INDO-MALAYAN ALLIED SPECIES. 



Gupitha verruca, Pamphila verruca, Mabille, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1889, p. 84. Habitat, Sumatra. 

 Cupitha hjcorias, Pamphila lycorias, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. x.xxvii. p. .")4 (1893). Habitat, 



E. Java. 

 Cupitha alara, Cupitha purreea alara, Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 29. Pamphila verruca, Staudinger 



(nee Mabille), Iri.s, 1889, p. 146, pi. 2, fig. 7, 9. Habitat, Celel>es, Philippines. 



Genus TELICOTA. 



Telicota, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 169 (1881). Distant, Rhop. Malajana, p. 381 (1886). Watson, 

 Hesp. Ind. p. 55(1891); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 102. Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. 

 p. 600 (1893). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 432. Elwes and Edwards 

 (part), Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 249. 



Forewing, vein 1 2 ends on costa some distance before end of cell ; cell long, very 

 little less than two-thirds the length of the costa ; upper discocellular minute, middle 

 and lower in an inwardly curved oblique line, the middle much the longer, vein 5 from 

 their junction rather close to the lower end of the cell, curved well upwards at its 

 origin, vein 3 emitted some little distance before the lower end of the cell in the male, 

 quite close to the end in the female, vein 2 a little beyond the middle in the male, 

 rather closer to the cell end in the female ; costa A'ery slightly arched before its 

 middle ; apex sub-acute, outer margin convex, oblique, somewhat shorter than the 

 hinder margin ; the wing narrow, the oblique outer margin giving the outer portion of 

 the wing a narrow triangular shape. Iliiulwhiff, vein 7, from well before upper end of 

 cell, the cell margin curving downwards from the base of 7 to its end ; discocellulars 

 outwardly oblique, faint, vein 5 al:)sent, 3 emitted close to lower end of cell, 2 from 

 twice the same distance from the origin of 3 ; costa and outer margin evenly rounded 

 to vein 2, where the maroin is sliffhtlv excavated, makiuw the anal angle somewhat 

 lobed. Antennae more than half the length of costa of forewing, club stout, with a 

 short and pointed terminal crook ; palpi upturned, the second joint laxly scaled, third 

 joint su1j-erect, bluntly conical ; hind tibiae naked and with two pairs of spurs. The 

 male with a linear discal stigma on the upperside of the forewing extending from the 



