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when disturbed. Third moult early in June, about tlie middle of which mouth they 

 suspend themselves by the tail near the bottom of the stems of the bushes, and 

 there change to the pupa state. The imago appears in about fifteen days, in the 

 first or second week in July, A few come out in August and September, but not in 

 sufficient numbers to constitute a succession of broods. The imago is seldom found 

 far from the food-plant, which grows near running water " (Proc. Zool. Hoc. 

 Lond. 1882, 243). 



MaIjAyax Allied Species. — Pareba Vestita, de Niceville, Journ. As. Sue. Bengal, 

 1895, p. 397. (Acrtea Vesta, Snellen, Mid. Sumatra, Lep. p. lo, pi. 2, fig. 3, 4, 5, <3 

 (1892). " Male and female. Upperside. Both wings differ from Himalayan, 

 Assam, and Burmese Fe.s/rt, in having the ground-colour more ochreous (less tawny) 

 and all the veins more heavily defined with black. Forcvivj with a broad costal 

 black maro-in reachincj the subcostal nervure : the outer margin has the black border 

 nearly twice as broad, with the marginal series of spots of the ground-colour obsolete 

 or entirely absent, niiiilirlnr/ with the black margin much broader, with the yellow 

 marginal spots very much smaller. Underside of both wings diSer only in having all 

 the veins more strongl3' defined with black." Jlahifat. Sumatra. — Pareba Yeafo'ulcs 

 (AcrJBa Vesta, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. pi. 3, tig. 21, larra (1829).— Male 

 and female. Upperside. Ground-colour generally brighter ochreous than in the 

 Sumatra species ; the veins in both wings being broadly defined with black, especially 

 in theforewing of the male. Forewino- with black costal and outer border, and the 

 marginal row of spots of the ground-colour similar in size to those in Burmese and 

 Himalayan Vesta ; the cell, discocellular, and discal zigzag black marks more or less 

 prominently defined in the male, broader and duller and partly coalescent in the 

 female. Habitat. Java. — " Larva feeds on a species of Urtica bearing the native 

 name of Latungan, December " (Horsfield MS. Notes). 



Genus TELCHINIA. 



reZc/i»«a, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. -11 (1S16). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mu.s. E.I.C. i. p. 13,'» 



(1857) ; /(/. Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 65 (1881). de Niceville, Butt, of India, i. p. .319 (1SS3). 

 Acnm (sect. 4 Telchinia), Doubledaj', Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 141 (1848). 



Imago. — Male. Foreioing narrow, elongatedly-triaugular ; costal margin slightly 

 arched towards the end, apex slightly rounded ; exterior margin oblique and slightly 

 convex, even ; posterior margin short ; costal vein extending to fully two-thirds the 

 margin ; first subcostal branch emitted at a short distance before end of the cell, 

 second branch at two-fifths beyond the end, third and fourth at about equal distances 

 apart beyond the second ; cell long, extending to more than half the wing ; dis- 

 cocellulars extending very obliquely outward, upper very short, middle deeply 



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