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venation similar and as variable. Hind wing : vein 7 not stalked, 

 upper discocellular therefore present. Antennae with the club 

 short, broad and abrupt ; palpi cylindrical, gradually incrassate to 

 apex of second joint, third joint minute, very sparsely clothed ; eyes 

 naked. 



454. Telchinia violae, Fabr. (Papilio) Syst. Ent. 1775, p. 460 : Moore, 

 Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 66, pi. 83, figs. 1, 1 a-\ b, d 2, larva & pupa ; 

 M. $ de N. Butt. Lid. i, 1883, p. 320, fig. J ; Davidson $ Aitken, 

 Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. v, 1890, p. 268 ; Moore, Lep. Lid. v, 1901 

 1903, p. 36, pi. 388, figs. 1, 1 a-lg, larva & pupa, <3 $ . 



S . Upperside tawny. Fore wing : a transverse black spot in 

 cell, and another irregular, oblique and broader at the disco- 

 cellulars ; a discal series of spots in interspaces 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10, 

 and the apex and termen black. The upper four spots of the 

 discal series inclined obliquely outwards, the lower two obliquely 

 inwards : the black edging to apex and termen narrowing poste- 

 riorly, butwith slender linear projections inwards in the interspaces. 

 Hind wing : a basal series of four or five black spots with a 

 similar spot beyond in middle of cell and a subcostal black spot 

 above it, followed by a discal series of obscure blackish spots and 

 a minute postdiscal black dot in interspaces 4 and 6 respectively ; 

 finally, a broad black terminal band medially 

 traversed by a series of small spots of 

 the ground-colour. Most of the macular 

 black markings are obscure, being only the 

 spots on the underside seen by the trans- 

 parency of the wing-membrane ; the inner 

 edge of the black terminal band crenu- 

 late. Underside : ground-colour ochraceous 

 yellow or a paler tawny yellow. Fore wing 

 paling to whitish on the apex, with the 

 Fig. 85. black markings as on the upperside but 



Telchinia viola, $ . \. somewhat blurred and diffuse. Hind wing: 

 the black spots and black terminal band as 

 on the upperside, but the spots more clearly defined, none obscure ; 

 the series of spots traversing the Hack terminal margin very much 

 larger and white, not tawny ; the base of the wing black, separated 

 from the basal transverse series of black spots by two or three 

 large whitish spots. Antennae black, head and thorax black spotted 

 with ochraceous and white ; abdomen anteriorly black, posteriorly 

 ochraceous yellow with narrow transverse black lines ; beneath, the 

 palpi, thorax and abdomen ochraceous, the thorax spotted with 

 ochraceous, the abdomen with a longitudinal line of black at base. — 

 2 • Similar. Upperside : ground-colour duller ; the black spots 

 on fore and hind wings larger, the upper discal spots often coalescing 

 and forming an irregular oblique short band ; the black edging to 

 apex and termen. on the fore wing and the black terminal band 

 on the hind wing proportionately broader, the spots traversing 

 the latter larger and whitish. Underside', ground-colour much 

 paler and duller, markings as on the upperside and, as in the 6 , 



