470 ISTMPHALIDiE. 



on both inner and outer sides by black lines, and a terminal, 

 slender black line continued along the dorsum. Antennae, head, 

 thorax and abdomen black, the thorax with a little ochraceous 

 yellow pubescence anteriorly ; thorax and abdomen beneath black 

 sparingly marked and spotted with very pale ochraceous. — 

 2 . Upperside : ground-colour a paler duller ochraceous yellow 

 than in the <? , with similar but broader black markings. Under- 

 side : ground-colour duller than in the $ , the black markings 

 showing through bj" transparency. 



Exp. S 2 64-74 mm. (2'54-2'9 "). 



Hal. The Himalayas, at 3000 or 4000 ft. ; the hills of Assam ; 

 Burma, Tenasserim ; extending to China. 



A variable insect both in the shades of ground-colour and in 

 the markings. The above description is of the palest form. 

 Other specimens have the ground-colour fulvous, with on the 

 upperside additional black marks, such as a band along the costa at 

 base of the fore wing, the apex and termen very broadly black, a 

 black transverse mark across the cell, another oblique mark from 

 costa beyond the apex of cell and black transverse marks on the 

 disc ; on the hind wing the black subterminal and terminal lines 

 are sometimes very broad, and the ochraceous-red subterminal band 

 of the underside shows through by transparency. Some female 

 specimens have the ground-colour of the fore wing on the upper- 

 side fuliginous, a broad streak at base of cell, a quadrate spot at 

 its apex, a discal irregular series of elongate marks and a sub- 

 terminal series of spots pale ochraceous. Hind wing : ground- 

 colour pale ochraceous, with the usual subterminal and terminal 

 markings rendered blurred and diffuse by a shading of fuliginous 

 black over the terminal third of the wing. 



Larva. " Elongated ; head unarmed ; segments armed with a 

 subdorsal and a sublateral row of long, sharp-pointed, branched 

 spines and a lateral row of shorter naked spines. Head reddish 

 ochraceous, black-spotted, front with a white stripe ; segments 

 dark purplish violet, with longitudinal rows of short transverse 

 white bars ; spines ochreous with black tips ; legs ochreous with 

 black bands." (Moore.) 



Pupa. " Suspended. Elongated narrow'; head with two short 

 frontal points ; thorax convex and uneven ; abdominal segments 

 with a dorsal and two lateral rows of short tubercular points. 

 Colour white, tubercles and streaks on wing-cases ochreous." 

 (Moore.) 



Genus TELCHINIA. 



Telchinia, Hiibnen, Verz. bek. Schmett. 1816, p. 27 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 

 i, 1881, p. 65 ; M. $ de N. Butt. 2nd. i, 1883, p. 319 : Moore, Lep. 

 hid. v, 1901-1903, p. 35. 



Type, T. violce, Eabr., from India. 



Range. Throughout peninsular India in the regions of heavv 

 rainfall ; Ceylon. 



Closely allied to and resembling Pareba, but differs as follows : — 

 Wings not quite so elongate ; fore wing : termen more convex ; 



