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HESPERIID^. 



Genus TELICOTA. 



Astycus, Hiibner, Catal. Frank, p. 185 (1825). Type, augias, Linn. 

 Telicota, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 169 (1881) ; Watson, Proc. Zool. See. Lond. 1893, 

 p. 102. Type, augias, Linn. 



"Antennae: club stout, elongate, terminal crook short. Palpi: second joint laxly scaled, third 

 joint suberect, bluntly conical. Fore wing : inner margin longer than outer margin ; cell 

 less than two thirds the length of costa ; vein 5 close to bottom of cell. In the male ; vein 3 

 is well before the end of cell, considerably nearer to vein 2 than to 4, and vein 2 is nearer to 

 the end of the cell than to the base of the wing. In the female vein 3 is immediately before 

 the end of the cell, and vein 2 is nearer to the base of the wing than to the end of the cell. 

 Hind wing : vein 7 well before the end of cell, the upper margin of cell being bent down- 

 wards at its origin; discocellulars faint ; vein 5 not traceable: veins 2, 3, and 4 all close 

 together ; vein 3 about twice as far from 2 as from 4. Hind tibiaj with two pairs of spurs. 

 Male with a linear discal stigma on the upperside of the fore wing, extending from the base 

 of vein 4 to as far as the submedian, being twice interrupted at veins 2 and 3. 



" Scott, in his ' Australian Lepidoptera,' has figured Avhat he identifies as 

 the tAvo sexes of phineus, Cramer ; the male figured is the female of augiades, 

 and the female appears to be a bad figure of Fadraona prusias, Felder. The 

 true phineus, described from Surinam, is in the British Museum from Ecuador 

 and Bolivia, and is the type of a distinct genus. Mr, Butler has also wrongly 

 identified phineus and records it from Amboina. 



" Hiibner's name Astycus has not been adopted for this genus, as it has 

 never been characterized, and was only published in a sale-list of Frank's 

 collection ; the twenty-two species enumerated under it belong to at least 

 thirteen different genera. 



"This genus ranges from India to Australia." [Watson, I. c.) 



Telicota bambusae. 



I'aiiiphild huiitbiisa-, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. (!91, pi. \iv. tigs. 11 J" , 

 12 ? . 



'I'dicula Iximhuan' , Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 382, pi. xxxv. fi<r. 12 (188G). 



" .Mlicd to 1'. aiigias, Jiinn., from ty])i( ul Java spociniens of wliicli it diifcrs in its somewluit 

 broader and less ])oint(d wings. .Markings aliove similar, but more delined, the borders of 

 the wings blacker, tlie liiisiil yellow streak on the liind wing confinod to a terminal spot at 

 the end of the ci'll, and the al)d(iinirial l)order Idiick. On the underside tiie markings ar(^ also 

 more clearly defined and the inters])aces blacker. 



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" ' I-iirva feeds on the bamboo.' (Al/.lnnou, MS. nulc.)" (Moon', I. c.) 



1 have oidy received two specimens of (liis species (Vom Cliina. They 



