600 HESPEKIID.i:. 
Genus TELICOTA. 
Astycus, Hiibner, Catal. Frank, p. 185 (1825). Type, augias, Linn. 
Telicota, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i.p. 169 (1881); Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893, 
p. 102. Tvpe, 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 out«r margin ; cell 
less than two thirds the length of costa; vein 5 close to bottom of cell. lu 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 ceU. 
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 tibiae 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 what he identifies as 
the two sexes oi phineiis, Cramer ; the male figured is the female of augiades, 
and the female appears to be a bad figure of Fadraona priiskis, Felder. The 
[rue 2}f>i)ieus, 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 jyhineiis and records it from Amboina. 
" Hiibner's name Astycus has not been adopted for this genus, as it has 
uever 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. 
Pcuiiphila bainbusce, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 691, pi. xiv. figs. \\ S > 
12 ?. 
Telicota bambusce, Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 382, pi. xxxv. fig. 12 (1886). 
" AUied to P. augias, Linn., from typical Java specimens of which it differs in its somewhat 
broader and less pointed wings. Markings above similar, but more defined, the borders of 
the wings blacker, the basal yellow streak on the hind wing confined to a terminal spot at 
the end of the cell, and the abdominal border black. On the underside the markings are also 
more clearly defined and the interspaces blacker. 
"Expanse, ,5 1|, $ 1 A inch. 
" ' Larva feeds on the bamboo.' {Atkinson, MH. note.)" (Moore, L c.) 
I have only received two specimens of this species from China. They 
