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concave and almost angled in its middle, lower slightly concave ; radials from the 

 angles of discocellnlars ; middle median branch emitted at a short distance before 

 lower end of the cell, lower median at one-half length of the cell ; submedian 

 slightly recurved. Uindwing small, short, broadly ovate ; anterior margin straight ; 

 exterior margin very convex, even ; inner margin free from the abdomen and not 

 channelled to enclose it ; costal vein extending to the apex ; precostal vein bent 

 outward near its end ; first subcostal branch emitted at about half lower length of 

 the cell ; the cell long ; discocellnlars very oblique and long, upper concave, lower 

 slightly concave, radial from their middle; the middle median branch emitted 

 at a short distance before lower end of cell, lower branch from more than one-half 

 before end of the cell ; submedian and internal vein slightly recurved. Bodij 

 slender ; abdomen long ; last segment of female furnished with a corneous anal 

 pouch ; palpi ascending, stont, finely pilose above, sparsely setose beneath, second 

 joint projecting slightly beyond the head, third joint extremely short ; forelegs 

 short, slender; fore tarsus of male cylindrical, clothed with short spiny-scales; 

 fore tarsus of female cylindrical, scaly ; four jointed, second, third, and fourth 

 joints together as long as the first, each with a terminal pair of sharp spines, 

 the apical pair being forwardly projected ; antenual club abruptly clavate ; eyes 

 naked. 



Lakva. — " Cylindrical, slender ; armed with six longitudinal rows of fine 

 branch ed-spines." 



P[TPA. — " Suspended perpendiculaidy. Long, slender, smooth, two latei'al angles 

 on the thorax; head quadrate " (Davidson and Aitken). 



Type.— T. Violte. 



TELCHINIA VIOLJE (Plate 388, fig. 1, ]a, lan-a and jw^ja, lb, c, d, ^, le, f, g, ? ). 



Papilio VioIcB, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 560 (1775), Ent. Syst. iii. p. 164 (1793). 



Acraa Tioh,-, Horsfield, Catal Lep. Mus. E.I.C. pi. 8, fig 2, 2a, larva and pupa (1829). Staudinger, 



Exot. Sclimett. i. p. 85, pi. 33 (188G). 

 Telckinia Viola, Doubleday, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 142 (1848). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mas. E.I.C. i. p. 135, 



pi. 5, fig. 1, la, larva and pupa (1857), id. Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 66, pi. 33, fig. 1, la, c? ? , lb, 



larva and 2'Upa (1881). Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. P.rit. Mus. p. LSI (1869). do Nicoville, 



Butt, of India, i. p. 320, fig. S (1883). 

 Papilio Cephiis, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 298, fig. D. E. (1782). Sulzer, Gescb. Ins. pi. 15, fig. 2 



(1776). 

 Telckinia Cephea, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 27 (1816). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Both wings ochreous-red ; cilia black. Forewiixj 

 with a small black subbasal spot and au oblique broad bar within the cell and a 

 larger broader discocellular bar ; the subbasal spot sometimes absent ; an upper 

 discal oblique series of four small spots, a single spot inwardly below these in the 



