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obscurely dowu to vein 2, from whence it is continued lnoadly black round the hinder 

 angle, all the veins black. Hindwing browuish-ochreous, somewhat darker than the 

 forewing, the discal patch indicated by black spots round its margins. Antennae black, 

 white beneath, the shaft spotted with black, the club with a dull red tip ; palpi 

 ochreous above, white beneath, pectus white ; head and body brown above, covered with 

 ochreous hairs, abdomen whitish beneath. 



Female. Upperside, both wings mostly blackish-brown. Foreicing with an 

 ochreous streak along the costa, and an ochreous spot at the end of the cell, three 

 sub-apical ochreous spots, a discal ochreous outwardly oblique band divided by the 

 veins into elongated spots from the sub-median vein, the spots narrowing upwards, 

 excavated on their outer sides, ending in two small spots or dots towards the apex 

 outside the lower end of the sub-apical spots. Hindwing with a discal ochreous band 

 and abdominal streak as in the male. Cilia of both winos whiter. Underside much as 

 iu the male ; the upperside varies in ditferent examples in the extent and breadth of 

 the ochreous markinos. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ ly% to li inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Central and Southern India, Burma, Siam, Andamans, 

 Ceylon, Hong Kong, Formosa, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



Distribution. — A common species in most of the above-mentioned localities ; we 

 took many specimens iu ]\Ihow, Pooua and Bombay ; Elwes records it also from 

 E. Pegu and the Naga Hills, Manders from the Shan States, Druce from Siam, Watson 

 from the Chin Hills, Aitken from Xassik, and Betham from the Central Provinces. 



TELICOTA BAMBUS.3E. 

 Plate 813, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, 9 > 3b, ^ , 3c, larva and pupa. 



Panqjhila hamhusae, 5[oore, Proe. Zool. Soe. 1878, p. 691, pi. 4.5, fig. 11. 



Telicota hamhusae, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 170, pi. 71, fig. 4 (1881). de Xiceville, Journ. As. Soc. 

 Bengal, 188.5, p. 53. Doherty, id. 1886, p. 139. Elwes and de Niceville, id. p. 440. Wood- 

 Mason and de Niceville, id. p. 384. Moore, Journ. Lirm. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1886, p. .53. 

 Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 382, pi. 35, fig. 12 (1886). Ehves, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 450. 

 Hampsou, .Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 366. Watson, Journ. Bo. Xat. Hist. Soc. 1888, 

 p. 27. Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 537. Davidson and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. 1890, p. 372. Fergusson, id. 1891, p. 4i7. Watson, id. p. 103. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 56 

 (1891) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 103. Betham, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1893, p. 427. 

 Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 321. de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkira, Butt. p. 182 (1894). 

 Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 600 (1893). J. J. Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 475. 

 Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 435; id. idem, x. 1896, p. 680. Da^-idson, 

 Bell and Aitken, id. xi. 1897, p 51 (larva and pupa). Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 

 1897, p. 251, pi. 25, fig. 63 (genitalia), de Rhe-Philipe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. 1898, 

 p. 600. Crowley, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1900, p. 511. de Rhe-Philipe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



