BOEBOXAXA. TELESILLA. 



58: 



^vith rufous, a small rufous discoidal spot and minutely crenulate 

 postmedial line slightly bent outwards below costa. 



Hah. Br. New Guinea, Ekeikei (Pratt), type f d" in Coll. 

 Bethune-Baker. Exjj. 26 millira. 



B. Fore wing with veins 8, 9 curved clownwards and with groove of ribbed 

 membrane above them, 10 from ceil and curved upwards. 



*3456. Borbotana dinava. 



Borhotana dinawa, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. siii. p. 208 (1906). 



S . Head and thorax very dark purplish brown ; tegulse tipped 

 with white at middle ; pectus whitish at sides ; abdomen whitish 

 suffused with dark purplish brown on dorsum and on terminal half 

 of ventral surface. Fore wing very dark chocolate-brown with a 

 pui-plish-grey gloss except on disk ; a very oblique pure white fascia 

 from base of costa to middle of submedian fold where it ends in a 

 point, its upper edge angled outwards in cell ; a triangular white 

 mark in end of cell with its lower extremity produced as a fascia to 

 above middle of vein 4 with a white point beyond it; an oblique 



Fig. 146. — Borbotana dinava. (^ . \. 



dark band formed of short diffused streaks from apex to inner margin 

 beyond middle where there is a white striga on its outer edge ; a 

 narrow black-brown terminal band. Hind wing white, the terminal 

 area suffused with purple-brown, broadly at costa, narrowing to 

 tornus ; cilia purple-brown, whitish towards tornus ; the underside 

 with the costal and terminal areas suffused with red-brown, a small 

 discoidal spot and postmedial line excurved between veins 7 and 2. 

 Hah. Br. New Guinea, Dinawa {Pratt), type t J in Coll. 

 Bethune-Baker. Exj^). 28 millim. 



Genus TELESILLA. 



Type. 

 Placodes, Dup. Cat. Meth. p. 143 (1844), nee Erich. Col. 



1834 amethystina. 



Telesilla, Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. vi. Index, p. 47 (1855). amethystina. 

 Eacarta, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 168 (1857) amethystina. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2ud joint reaching to about 

 vertex of head and i-ather broadly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate ; 

 frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna? of male ciliated ; thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales, the pro- and nietathorax with spreading crests ; tibiae 

 moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal series of crests, the crest 



