TELICOTA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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the costal margin of the forewing in the $ entirely black. Both wings beneath more extensively covered with 
black, and darker ochreous than in Indian specimens. — Philippinic specimens are by no means so much darkened 
that they could be compared with pythias, but they resemble the Indians above very much and only differ 
beneath in the darker colour of the hindwing, in which there are not distinct small black hooks or spots as in 
typical bambusae. As they must be denominated according to Fruhstorfer, they may be named fruhstorferi fruhstorferi. 
form. nov. (168 h). — pythias Mob. (168 h, i) are the Javanese specimens being conspicuously margined with a pythias. 
distinct and thick black colour. — In upadhana Fruhst. the $ above is darker ochreous, with narrower bands, upadhana. 
and has only two instead of three subapical spots on the fore wing; from Lombok. — rahula Fruhst., from South rahula. 
Celebes, in the $ resembles pythias (168 h), but it is larger; the' $ is likewise larger, the bands above lighter 
yellow, very narrow, particularly the anally tapering median band of the hindwing. Beneath both sexes are 
lighter yellow. — rasana Fruhst., from Palawan, has more roundish wings, still darker ochreous bands, the rasana. 
basal black of the hindwing is more uniform, without the enclosed yellow punctiform spot. The band of the 
hindwing is more uniform, more distinctly defined, more square than band-shaped. — ancilla H.-Schaff. (168 i) ancilla. 
is the form from Amboina, from which tematensis Swh. (168 i), from Ternate, Batjan, and Morotai, only differs ternatensis. 
in its enormous size. — In obiensis Fruhst., from Obi, the $ shows a more reduced gold spot in the cell of the obiensis. 
forewing, and the hindwing is quite black except a very narrow median band. -— Specimens from German 
New Guinea, which we figure from Bogodjim (near Stephansort), are scarcely half the size of Ternate-specimens; 
Mabille denominates them hypomelaena (171 a) and they are already very similar to rnoseleyi Btlr. (171 b) hypomelac- 
from the Key Is., which occur in the same form to the south as far as Sydney in New South Wales. Among , na - 
them there occur ££ in which the hindwing beneath is suffused with green and which Plotz figures from mosdc,Jl ' 
Rockhampton and denominates olivescens (171 b), attaining the size of dara. — subha Fruhst., from Fergusson olivescens. 
and Dutch New Guinea, is allied to ternatensis (172 a), but it has a broader black margin, the proximal edge Sl, bha. 
of which appears to be irregular owing to deep indentations. The black median area of the forewing, which 
is traversed by sexual stripes, is mostly confluent with the apical margin. The $ shows above the spots and 
bands still more reduced than upadhana Fruhst. — eurotas Fldr. (171 b) which is better ranged with another eurotas. 
species chiefly differs in the much narrower postmedian yellow band of the forewing. India, Borneo. — Larva 
green, with lighter or yellowish ring-indentations, and a dark green or black head; pupa yellowish, in contracted 
blades of bamboo and sugar-cane. The imagines fly swiftly, buzzing and somewhat skipping in the sunshine, 
and prefer the blossoms of Lantana hybrida. 
T. augias L. (= kreffti H.-Schaff.) (171 b) is extremely similar to the lighter races of the preceding augias. 
species, but differs in the black margin of the fore wing above being crossed by the yellow veins and being thus 
divided into single marginal spots. From India and Ceylon almost across the whole archipelago to the east as 
far as Formosa, Hongkong, and the Philippines. — To the south the species reaches the Australian Continent 
and goes as far as Sydney. This North-Australian form is argeus Plotz (172 a) which has nothing to do with the argeus. 
bambusae-iorms (with an unpierced marginal black), of which, however, augustula Plotz (nec H.-Schdff. ?) is augustuln. 
merely an aberration, the black colour in the basal and costal-marginal portions of the hindwing above being 
greatly reduced and the light colouring above being very glaring golden yellow. 
T. tropica Plotz (172 a) is allied to bambusae , but the yellow oblique band of the forewing is removed tropica. 
towards the margin behind the cell-end, and that of the hindwing is somewhat crescentiform, the convexity 
showing towards the base of the wing. From Java and Sumatra. — Ceylon-specimens of this species are satra satra. 
Fruhst., and those from Annum: dushta Fruhst. The latter have twice as broad yellow bands on the forewing dushta. 
and hindwing as specimens from Java or Ceylon. 
T. sunias Fldt . ( = ahrendti Plotz ) (172 a) was described from Amboina. The upper surface is rather sunias. 
similar to dara , but beneath the hindwing is blackish, covered with reddish-yellow except the median band which 
is composed of somewhat irregular spots. — rectivitta Mab. is presumably only a form of it with narrower orange redivitta. 
areas above, which are only about half the width of those in typical sunias. The apical orange spot is invariably 
separated from the other median band, which hardly occurs in Moluccan specimens; also beneath the spots and 
bands are smaller. North-East Queensland (Kuranda, Mackay, Townsville, Cooktown). 
T. walkeri Heron (= sunios Plotz nec Fldr., agraulia Olliff.) (172 a) is considerably smaller, recog- walkeri. 
nisable by the oval shape of the yellow spot covering the cell on the fore wing above; the black median band 
surrounding it is somewhat irregularly shaped. The band of the hindwing above projects towards the margin 
in the anal fold and near the centre of the margin. — hypochlora Loio. is a larger form with much broader mar king s h ypochlora 
(particularly in the <$) and with a unicoloured yellowish-green under surface of the hindwing, which often does 
not exhibit any marking at all. Adelaide, November till February, particularly on blossoms of Gomphrena. 
The imago flies in the whole of Eastern Australia, as far as its chief food (Cynodon dactylis) grow r s. 
T. tranquilla Swh. Forewing red-brown with a dull olive tint, with an oblique narrow band of 6 small tranquillc. 
dull ochreous discal spots, and 3 subapical ones; the hindwing shows a discal band of five spots; fringes of 
