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! Augiades majuscula, n. sp. (Plate XIX. fig. 21, 6 ; Plate XXV. fig. 61.) 



Resembles A. ochracea generally, and particularly in the black veining of the hind 

 wing below, but is larger (exp. 41 mm.), and the fore wing has a much straighter 

 termen, and therefore a more pointed appearance. The form of the cedeagus is quite 

 distinct from that of A. ochracea, but is not to be distinguished from that of 

 A. sylvanus. 



Described from two males from China (Pryer, in coll. Elwes). 



We should not have ventured to separate this species from ochracea if it had not 

 been for the marked difference in the cedeagi, which are figured. Elwes obtained the 

 types from a collection made many years ago by the late Mr. Pryer in China, mostly 

 at Shanghai. He found specimens in Mr. Leech's collection marked herculea, Butl., 

 which appear to be the same species. 



Telicota. 



Telicota, Moore, Lep. Cey. i. p. 169 (1881) ; Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 102. Type augias, Lin. 

 Padraona, Moore, t. c. p. 170; "Watson, t. c. p. 101. Type mcesa, Moore, = dara, Koll. 



Under this generic name we bring together a number of species which agree well in 

 general appearance and in all important points of structure. Antenna? more than half 

 as long as costa; club gradual, of moderate size ; apiculus as long as, or a little longer 

 than the greatest width of the club. Palpi: second joint densely scaled, third joint 

 short, conical, erecto-patent ; or second joint laxly scaled, third joint acicular, sub- 

 erect, sometimes almost as long as one-third of the diameter of the eye. Wings 

 without hyaline spots. Basal portion of vein 5 in the fore wing receding from vein 6, 

 vein 5 therefore arising much nearer to vein 4 than to vein 6 ; vein 5 in the hind wing 

 obsolete. Upperside dark brown or black, with a yellow (fulvous or stramineous) 

 band on each wing ; that on the fore wing starts from the middle of the dorsum and 

 runs obliquely outwards to join some pale spots in cells 6-8, it is sometimes broken 

 into spots, and there is also sometimes a pale spot or spots in the cell, or an' elongate 

 triangular pale spot next the costa from the base to beyond the middle ; the band on 

 the hind wing is submedian, and does not reach the costa or the dorsum, but is in 

 nearly all the species reproduced, outlined in black, on the underside. Tibial epiphysis 

 present ; hind tibiae fringed with long hairs, and having two pairs of spurs. 



The species known to us we arrange as follows : — 



1 (16). Hind wing: termen distinctly excavate between veins 1 b and 2 



or 1 b and 3, the toi-nus therefore apparently shortly produced 

 into a rounded lobe. 



2 (11)- Male with an alar sex-mark. 



3 (6). Sex-mark on the fore wing : a streak of androconia reaching from 



the middle of vein 2 to the base of vein 4. (Telicota proper.) 



