156 TELOBTA. By W. Warren. 



median; stigmata of the ground colour, with brown rings; the orbicular large, round; both with brown centres; 



submarginal line formed of disconnected pale lunules edged inwardly with darker; hindwing pale yellow; 



auranliago. aurantiago Tutt (28 i) is a darker form, deeper orange, and sometimes darkened by grey dusting, occurring in Britain ; 



incolorata. equally meriting a distinctive name is a rare form, ab. incolorata ab. nov. (28 i) in which the ground colour is pure pale 



ochreous, without any orange freckling, the veins and lines faintly brownish, the stigmata all but obsolete; 



the fringe pale; hindwing white; I have seen only 1 example, a $, certainly British, but without exact locality; 



subftava. the form subflava Ev., from Denmark, the Baltic, St. Fetersburg, and the Ural Mts. ; recorded also from Asia 



Minor, has quite a different appearance, the 3 lines, inner, outer, and submarginal being accompanied by brown 



bands of uniform width, the stigmata marked with brown, and the hindwing with brown veins and terminal 



border. Larva grey brown with a pink tinge; dorsal and subdorsal lines whitish; between them a black spot 



surrounded with white tubercles on each segment; spiracular stripe yellowish white, broad; feeding on lime, 



when young living between spun-together leaves, afterwards resting by day in the chinks of the lime trunks. 



General in Europe, except Spain and Portugal, and in Asia Minor. 



ledereri. C. ledereri Stgr. (28 k). Forewing ochreous yellow irrorated with rufous and tinged in places with grey; veins 



finely rufous; lines rufous; the inner fine, rectangularly bent on submedian fold, the angle in the pale, rufous- 

 edged, claviform stigma; outer line excurved below costa, below vein 6 oblique and flexuous inwards; upper 

 stigmata pale yellow ringed with rufous, the orbicular large and round, the reniform with some white at its lower 

 inner angle and some grey and black scales at the outer; median shade diffusely brown, angled at base of reni- 

 form; submarginal line pale, preceded by grey lunules, the space between it and outer line sometimes filled 

 in with grey; hindwing yellowish with sparse rufous dusting, the veins, an outer line, and a faint submarginal 

 cloud rufous. Eecorded from W. Turkestan only. In this and the following species the costa of forewing is quite 

 straight to apex, which is acute and prominent. 



xvmaUi C. approximata Hmps. (28 k). Forewing olive ochreous irrorated with olive rufous ; the veins finely brown ;. 



the lines and edge of stigmata also brown; inner line fine, oblique outwards, touching median shade at inner 

 margin; outer line slightly bent below costa then oblique inwards; median shade thick; stigmata large, conver- 

 sely oblique; an olive grey band beyond outer line, limited by the dentate-lunulate submarginal line; hindwing 

 dirty yellowish white, the inner marginal area grey — Eecorded only from Kashmir. 



melonina. C. melonina Btlr. (28 k). Forewing deep yellow with some orange red dusting; the veins red; lines brown, 



double; inner line angled basewards on veins, outwardly curved; outer line fine, dentate-lunulate, followed 

 by a clear yellow band; submarginal line also followed by yellow and preceded by a grey band; median shade 

 brown and distinct, bent in middle; stigmata pale and large, outlined with reddish; hindwing pale yellow; the 

 inner marginal area reddish; a reddish outer and broader reddish submarginal line, not reaching costa. Des- 

 cribed by Butler from the Punjab, N. India, but since recorded from Kashmir. 



66. Genus: Telorta gen. nov. 



Distinguished from Cosmia Tr. by the produced subfalcate apex of forewing and the sinuous termen; 

 the inner and outer lines are nearly straight and conversely oblique; the coloration of both wings generally darker. 

 Type T. divergens Btlr. The genus contains only 3 or 4 species, all of eastern origin. 



edentata. T. edentata Leech (28 k). Forewing brownish rufous ; inner and outer lines deeper red, finely edged conversely 



with pale yellow, the inner oblique outwards, slightly curved below, the outer nearly vertical and straight; the 

 basal area before inner line and the postmedian area beyond outer somewhat deeper in colour; submarginal line 

 slightly paler, waved; a diffuse median shade forming a brown spot between stigmata; these are large, pale, with 

 paler outline; hindwing pale yellow; the inner margin below cell-fold dark grey, not reaching termen except 

 at anal angle; fringe yellow; a strong dark grey cellspot. Eecorded from Japan only. 



divergens. T. divergens Btlr. (= coriacea Graes.) (28 k.) Forewing grey brown with a reddish tinge, finely dusted with 



fuscous; veins finely dark; outer and inner lines, and the edges of stigmata redbrown; the lines straight and 

 conversely oblique; stigmata large, with rather darker centres, the reniform traversed by the broad median 

 shade, which is bent in the lower lobe; submarginal line generally very faint, waved, consisting of dark lunules; 

 marginal dark lunules; fringe brown with a pale base; hindwing dark fuscous, sometimes with traces of an 

 outer line; anal tuft of the abdomen of the <J yellowish. Japan and E. Siberia. 



acuminata. T. acuminata Btlr. (28 k). Forewing pale olive grey, with distinct darker fasciae before inner and beyond outer 



line; these are reddish brown, conversely oblique and edged with pale ochreous; the veins pale; stigmata dark, 

 large, closely approximate, with pale dark-edged outlines; submarginal line dentate lunulate, pale; median 

 shade broad, oblique inwards below middle; hindwing dull olive grey, with the apical area broadly yellow or 

 greyish-yellow from costa to vein 2; the fringe yellow; anal tufts of abdomen yellow in both sexes. China and 

 Japan. This species differs from the others in having the termen of forewing strongly crenulate. 



