252 MESSES. H. J. ELWES AND JAMES EDWAEDS : 



! Telicota insulaeis, n. sp. (Plate XIX. figs. 26 d 1 , 27 $ .) 



6 . Upperside : fore wing blackish brown ; a broad fulvous postmedian band from 

 the dorsum nearly parallel with the termen as far as the end of the cell, recurved 

 from thence to the costa, a streak along the basal half of the costa and two streaks 

 in the cell, the upper one occupying its entire length, the lower one only half as 

 long, also fulvous : hind wing fulvous, the costal region as far as vein 6 and a 

 little beyond that vein on the inner two-thirds of the wing black ; a suffused anteciliary 

 black line in cells 5-2, expanding in cell 1 b into a suffused spot ; cells 1 and 1 a 

 blackish ; a tuft of long hairs springing from an otherwise bare pale patch near the 

 middle of cell 7 and the base of cell 6 and directed obliquely inwards and downwards. 

 Underside : fore wing yellowish red-brown, passing into yellow on the dorsum ; 

 basal half as far upwards as the cell black, the black portion bearing an oblong bare 

 pale spot from the dorsum as far as the base of vein 2 ; a fine anteciliary line and the 

 veins blackish ; fringe deep yellow, the short scales blackish grey from the apex as 

 far as vein 1 a : hind wing yellowish red-brown, brownish yellow from vein 2 to the 

 dorsum, a fine anteciliary black line from the apex to vein 2 ; fringe deep yellow. 

 Palpi clothed with yellow scales intermixed with black. Clothing of body above 

 fulvous. Antenna? blackish, club pale beneath. 



$ . Upperside : fore wing yellow-brown, pale markings as in the male but yellow rather 

 than fulvous and the postmedian band narrower : hind wing yellow-brown, with a broad 

 suffused median yellow band passing from the apex of cells 4-5 towards the dorsum ; 

 basal region clothed with long yellow hairs. Underside : fore wing as in the male, but 

 the dark basal portion is blackish only and bears no pale patch, the dorsum as far 

 as vein 1 a dusky ; hind wing as in the male, but less strongly tinged with red. 



A very distinct species, which comes nearest to T. prusias. 



Expanse 42 mm. 



Hab. Pulo Laut (Doherty). Types in coll. Elwes. 



Telicota kuehni. 



Hesperia kuehni, Pliitz, Stett. ent. Zeit. xlvii. p. 101 (1886). 

 Padraona kuehni, Semper, Schmett. Philipp. p. 302 (1892). 



Hab. Luzon {Semper) ; E. Celebes (in coll. Godman & Salvin). 

 ! Telicota palmaeum. (Plate XXV. figs. 64, 64 a.) 



Pamphila polmarum, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 690, pi. xlv. figs. 6, 7, 6 2 . 

 Hesperia chrysozona, Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. xliv. p. 228 (1883). 

 Pamphila augiades, var. bambusce, Staudinger, Iris, ii. pp. 144, 165 (1889). 

 Padraona pahnarum, Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 60 (1891). 



Padraona chrysozona, Semper, Schmett. Philipp. p. 301, pi. xlix. figs. 13 c?, 14 5, pi. B. 

 fig. 11, larva (as Telicota bambusa) (1892). 



