AEGTNNIS— TIMEL/EA. 
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the Nilgiris, Travancore, Ceylon, Sumatra, Java, Formosa, and North 
Australia. 
Genus TIMEL^A. 
Timelcsa, Lucas, Ami. Soc. Ent. France, 1883, p. xxxv. 
" Yeux ovalaires, saillants, envahissant Ics parties laterales flc la teto : cclle-ci jictite, etroite. 
Palpes labiaux groles, non velus, converts dc poils squammiformcs ; dernier article allonge, 
assez aigii. Antennes greles, plus allongees que le corps, terminces eu massue fusiformc, 
allougc'e-OTOide, comprimt'e, cren^^ce longitndinalement en cniller en dessous. Thorax pen 
robustc. Ailcs greles, dcntclees, a sommet, a bords antcrieur, exterieur et posterienr 
arrondis. Pattes greles dans les denx sexes, non poilues. Abdomen grele, plus court que 
les ailes de la seconde paire, tres legeremeiit courbe." (Lvcas, 1. c.) 
Timelaea maculata. (Plate XXIII. fig. 7, d .) 
Melitcea (?) maculata, Bremer & Grey, Schmctt. N. China's, p. 7, pi. i. fig. 3 (1853). 
Argymiis maculata, Kirby, Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. 1G3. 
Melitcea maculata, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 900. 
Timelaa maculata, Lucas, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1883, p. xxxv. 
Argynnis leopardina, Lucas, Ann. Soc. F]nt. Fv, 1866, p. 221, pi. iii. figs. 3, 3 b. 
Pale fulvous, marked with black. Primaries have four spots above the discoidal cell, two in the 
cell and a short streak from the base in the submedian interspace ; the inner central macular 
band is sharply indented in first median interspace ; the outer central band is composed of 
five large oblong spots and one minute round one, the latter placed in the second median 
interspace ; submarginal band composed of seven spots, of which the third and sixth are the 
smallest, marginal series of seven spots placed on the nervules ; there is a black streak along 
the middle of the inner margin. Secondaries have four spots in the discoidal cell and four 
spots along the paler abdominal margin ; the inner central band is twice angulated, and the 
outer, composed of seven square spots, curved ; submarginal band of seven spots, the seventh 
double ; marginal series of spots as on primaries. Fringes paler than ground-colour, 
preceded by a black line and chequered with black at the tips of the nervules. Underside of 
primaries rather paler than above, but with the same black markings ; there are some white 
markings on the costa between the central bands and between the outer central and sub- 
marginal bands, and in some specimens indications of a whitish macular band between the 
two central black oues : of secondaries whitish, with broad pale fulvous border to outer 
margin and a broad dash of same colour from the middle of abdominal margin ; the black 
markings as above, but in addition there are two spots towards base of costa. 
The female has the outer margin of primaries rounder, but does not otherwise differ from 
the male. 
Expanse, d G0-G2 millim., $ 54-60 millim. 
Occui's at Kiukiang, Chang-yang, and Ichang in Central China, and at 
Chia-ting-fu in Western China. Bremer's types Avere from Pekin, and I 
believe that a specimen was taken by Mr. W. B. Pryer in the Snowy Valley, 
near NingiDo. 
