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TELDENIA. By W. Warren. 
13. Genus: TTelflleiifa Mr. 
Proboscis present; palpi slender, upturned. Antennae of bipectinate, of $ plain; middle and hind 
tibiae with 1 pair of terminal spurs. In the forewing veins 6, 7, 8 are forked, as well as 9 and 10; 8 and 9 
anastomosing and forming an areola. Type: T. vestigiata Btlr. Cf. also Vol. II, p. 198. 
vestigiata. T. vestigiata Btlr. (= alba Mr.) (48 e). Forewing purely white with a distal row of ochreous spots 
in front of which there are dark lunulae, the 4 upper spots arranged in pairs, the 3 lower ones extending towards 
the base; behind the spots 2 undulating lines, the proximal one below bent towards the base; marginal spots 
black. — Larva green with violet subdorsal spots and black lateral spots; the 2nd and 12th segments with 
dorsal tubercles, on the 4th a feeble appendage, and a long one turned backward on the 12th ring. — Through 
the whole of India, Ceylon, Burma, the Malay Archipelago, Java, Buru, Sambawa, and Hainan. 
niveata. T. niveafa Pag. (= fulvilunata Warr.) (48 e). Forewing white; distal line brownish-grey, as far as 
vein 4 irregularly distally dentate, then vertical as far as 3, then strongly incurved; before it a row of 
yellowish-brown lunulae, proximally bordered with black (in the typical specimen these lunulae are extinct 
between veins 5 and 6, only marked by two small black dots); the lunulae at the hind-margin filled with black; 
subterminal line dark brown, obliquely distally, and regularly notched, composed of small crescents as far as 
vein 3, where it extends towards the distal line which it almost touches, and irregularly undulated to the anal 
angle. Marginal spots black; fringes white. Hindwing the same, the lunulae before the distal line not interrupted. 
Vertex, thorax, and abdomen white, face brown, below lighter. Both the types originate from Celebes, from 
Bonthain in the Tring Museum, and also from Cebu. 
illunata. T. illunata Warr. (48 e). Forewing lustrous white; costal margin grey; a distal grey line of small 
crescents is notched, double, and almost vertical; subterminal line single, grey, between veins 6 and 7 indented 
and again between 2 and 3; small marginal stripes grey or ochreous, sometimes very dull. Hindwing similar. 
Thorax and abdomen white. Face, band of the head, and antennae brown. Biagi (Mambare River in British 
New Guinea). 
moniliata. T. moniliata Warr. (48 e). Wings of a pure white, a distal and a subterminal chain of transverse 
ochreous lunulae between the veins, between veins 3 and 5 excurved; fringes white. No marginal spot. Thorax 
and abdomen white, face, vertex, outside of palpi, and front tibiae dark bronze-brown. Salomon Islands: 
Guadalcanal’ and Choiseul. 
nigrinotata. T. nigrhiotata Warr. (48 e). Forewing snow-white; a black subcostal spot behind the centre, from 
where the distal line bends round distally and then runs vertically, interrupted behind the cell and then extending 
right along vein 3, then again vertical; in front of it above and below the cell pairs of small black spots, and 
above the hind-margin 3 such spots; the two below the cell large and prominent; subterminal line dark 
grey, formed of small crescents, at the cell and below vein 3 inwardly flawed; marginal spots black. Before the 
apex 3 black costal oblique spots; fringes white. Hindwing similar. Face above as well as antennae dark brown. 
Described from a small couple from Fergusson Is.; numerous specimens also from various places of New Guinea. 
nivea. T. nivea Btlr. (48 e). Forewing of a pure white, with an indistinct distal row of small grey diffuse 
spots; hindwing similar, face and antennae black. Salomons Is.: Alu, Guadalcanar. 
obsoleta. T. obsoleta Warr. (48 e). Forewing white; near the margin a pale ochreous undulate line formed 
of small crescents; below the costa and in the centre of the wing faint traces of small ochreous crescents 
indicating a distal line; distinct black small spots at the distal margin; fringes white. Hindwing without any 
traces of a distal line. Palpi and upper half of face reddish-brown; the rest of the body white. Dili in Dutch 
Timor; described from a single 
2 mra. T. pura Warr. (48 e). Body and wings quite purely white. Under surface lustrous; upper part of 
face brown, sometimes also the upper head, antennae and palpi, front legs, and the extreme base of the costa. 
New Guinea, from different places. 
unistrigata. T. uriistrigata Warr. (48 e). Wings white with a curved ochreous distal line, costa of forewing light 
ochreous, fringes white. Face, upper head, and palpi brown, all the rest white. Padang-Rengas (Perak), Gunong- 
ljau, and Penang in the Malay Peninsula; in the British Museum also from Haiphong and Mysol. 
ruficosta. T. ruficosta sp. nov. Wings and body white, at the ends of the veins a row of black marginal spots; 
fringes yellowish -grey; costa of forewing very fine yellowish-red. From the Oetakwa River, New Guinea. Type 
in the British Museum. 
geniinata. T. gemiriata sp. nov. Smaller than nigronotata (48 e) to which it is the most closely allied. All the 
markings very obsolete except two intensely marked small black lunae in the distal line in the forewing on 
