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TELICOTA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
terranea. 
yojana. 
pavci. 
paimarum. 
baweana. 
acalle. 
chrysozona. 
negrosiana. 
Jciihni. 
subrubra. 
aug lades. 
prusias. 
matinus. 
sariputra. 
padhana. 
batj ana. 
tenebricosa. 
insularis. 
both wings ochreous. Forewing beneath black, marked as above, with an ochreous subcostal stripe and ochreous 
irroration at the apex; on the ochreous hindwing the discal band is edged with black. New Guinea. 
T. terranea Fruhst. Ground-colour earth-brown, with a slight violet reflection; forewing with 3 
indistinct subapical dots, above the cell-apex a very narrow greyish-yellow oblique longitudinal band which 
is proximally bordered by a shorter, serpentine black sexual stripe. Hindwing in the discal area with a moderately 
oblique, somewhat broader band. Fringes dark brownish yellow. Beneath the basal half of the forewing is 
black, the costal area dark ochreous. Hindwing reddish-yellow, bands as above, somewhat more distinct, 
somewhat mustard-brown. Apparently allied to tranquilla. German New Guinea. 
T. yojana Fruhst. is the lightest form of the allied species and larger than dam and tropica, the cell 
of the forewing without any trace of a black cellular streak, the yellow bands of both wings almost twice as 
broad as in the said forms. Under surface light ochreous, without the greenish hue of dara tanya or the reddish 
hue of tropica. East Java, Lombok at an altitude of 2000 ft. — pava Fruhst. is the subspecies from Formosa 
(Chip-Chip) from an altitude of 4000 ft. Larger than the type, all the bands more extensive, lighter yellow, 
the long yellow basal streak of the hindwing above more prominent. 
T. paimarum Mr. The forms of this species are so closely allied that some have cancelled the names 
as synonyma. paimarum is one of the largest orange-yellow Telicota, in which only the margins of the wings 
and the veins are black. Typical specimens originate from Calcutta and Indo-China (Bangkok, Assam) where 
they are, however, apparently not very common. Specimens from the Sunda Is. ( kayapu Doh., raktaya Fruhst., 
augiades Piep. & Snell.) (172 a, b) are distinguished by the narrower median stripe of the forewing above and 
the blackish hindmarginal fold of the hindwing; beneath the wings are rather dull yellowish-brown. The $ 
shows the whole basal portions of both wings above black and the discal spots pale ochreous. — In Bawean 
$3 the black median band of the fore wing is quite absent, and the $ is deeper black than that from Java and 
Engano, and the yellow discal spots are powdered with black (= baweana Fruhst.). — acalle Hpffr. (172 c) 
are the specimens from Celebes; forewing with a thick black median stripe, also the whole basal portion of 
the hindwing is black. — chrysozona Plotz (172 b), from the Philippines, shows very fiery golden yellow forewings 
only crossed by the black median. — In negrosiana Fruhst. (172 b), from Negros, the dark margin of the 3 
wing is broader, and the median as well as a streak from the cell-end towards the margin below the apex thicker 
black. The North-Australian form which was wrongly taken to be the (American) pliineus Cr. by Scott, does 
not differ essentially from Indians. — Larva green with a white head margined and marked with black, on 
palms (especially cocoanut trees) and ratan. Pupa dingy yellowish-white. The imagines fly very swiftly and 
are in most of the districts rather rare, particularly the 
T. kiihni Plotz (•= simplex Elw.) (172 c) is a large species easily recognised by the whole distal half 
of the hindwing above being orange-yellow and the margin only being in the apical portion edged with dark. 
South Celebes, from Macassar. — subrubra Holl. is the name preserved by Fruhstorfer for the specimens 
from the Minahassa, Celebes, in which the hindwing is more intensely margined with black than in the type, 
but where the lobate anal portion of the hindwing is not margined with dark. 
T. augiades Fldr. is almost exactly like paimarum but somewhat larger (44 mm instead of 40 mm of 
paimarum)', the yellow band of the forewing above is broader, the basal two thirds of the cell 2 of the forewing 
above quite yellow. Beneath the cell of the forewing in augiades is quite yellow, but in paimarum in the basal 
portion blackish. — The two species might be taken to be forms of one species, but according to Edwards 
the apex of the tegumen in paimarum is tripartite, in augiades bipartite. The $$, however, cannot be disting¬ 
uished in this way. From Amboina. 
T. prusias Fldr. (172 c) has the forewings almost exactly as kiihni, but the anal half of the hindwing 
is intensely shaded with dark, and both wings beneath are suffused with a bright dark brown, so that only 
a large wedge-shaped spot in the hindwing (the base on the distal margin of the anal lobe) remains golden yellow. 
Southern Philippines; we figure a specimen from Mindanao. — Specimens from North-Western Luzon differ 
in the more distinct border of the ochreous median band, = matinus Fruhst. — sariputra Fruhst., from Palawan, 
are said to form a transition to kiihni, though they have still broader bands, but they are blacker than Philippinie 
specimen's. — padhana Fruhst. show a twice as broad and much lighter yellow median band in both wings; 
hindwing above in the anal angle not sooty black, and beneath the anal area of the hindwing is not blackish 
but yellowish-brown. Isle of Bazilan. — batjana Swinh., from the Moluccan Islands of Batjan and Ternate, 
treated as a distinct species by Swinhoe, is again more intensely darkened, the yellow colour being confined, 
nearer to sariputra. — tenebricosa Mab. is a very large form from German New Guinea. — The larva of prusias 
is presumably unicoloured green and probably lives on palms; the imagines apparently do not occur in such 
great numbers as bambusae or other yellow species of Telicota. 
T. insularis Elw. (172 c, d) which we copy from Elwes, only differs very slightly from kiihni from 
Celebes, above all in the browner under surface of the 3 hindwing, but it originates from the Borneensic satellite- 
island Pulo Laut. — A form of this species from the Kina Balu in North Borneo differs from the typical specimens 
