388 EHOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



2. Tagiades gana. (Tab. XXXIV., fig. 2 ^ .) 



rteri/iio.sjiiilrii (tkiui, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, [i. 780. 



Taii'uiiles (j(ina, Biitl. Trans. Linu. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 550, u. 2 (1877). 



Male. Wings above dark fuscous ; anterior wings with three small grej-ish semibyaline subapical 

 spots, and a transverse discal macular fascia, a large spot witbin tbe cell, another near base, and the 

 exterior margin blackish ; posterior wings with about tbe outer tbii-d greyish-white ; apical margin, three 

 upper discal spots, and two marginal spots on tbe greyish-wbite area, blackish. Anterior wings beneath as 

 above, but jmler; i^osterior wings beneath greyish-wbite, the costal and apical margins broadly fuscous ; 

 spots as above, but the marginal ones frequently larger and more spreading, and the basal fuscous 

 coloration above, pale and obscure bluish beneath. Body above concolorous with wiugs, beneath greyish. 



Female. Wings above paler than in male, and the greyish-white area to the upper surface of the 

 posterior wings much smaller than in tbe other sex. 



Exp. wings, $ , 43 to 45 millim. ; J , 45 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India; Bengal (Moore). — Malay Peninsula; Penaug (Biggs — coll. Dist. ; Wallace 



— coll. Godm. & Salv.) ; Perak (Kiinst. — Calc. Mus.) ; Sungei Ujong (Durnford — coll. Dist.) ; Malacca 



(Pinwill— Brit. Mus. ; Biggs— coll. Dist.). 



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3. Tagiades ravi. (Tab. XXXIV., fig. 1 <y .) 



PterijijiKpidea Ravi, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 779. 



Tdi/iades Fuivi, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 109, n. 2; Butl. Trans. Lmn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 550, 



n. 1 (1877) ; Wood-Mas. & de Nic. J. A. S. Bang. vol. xlix. p. 241, u. 78 (1880) ; ibid. vol. l. p. 238, 



11. 60 (1881). 



Male. Wings above fuliginous-brown ; anterior wings with three small greyish semibyaline subapical 

 spots, two somewhat larger spots of tbe same colour beneath and beyond extremitj' of cell, three obscure 

 blackish spots in transverse series across disk, one of the same colour in cell and another near base, apex 

 and exterior margin darker ; posterior wings with curved discal series of small blackish spots. Anterior 

 wings beneath paler brown, with the semibyaline spots as above ; posterior wings beneath olivaceous-grey, 

 tbe costal and outer margins brown, and with curved discal series of small blackish spots — these are 

 sometimes almost obsolete. Body aliove concolorous with wings, beneath more or less olivaceous-gre}'. 



Female. Eesembling tbe male, but with two minute additional semibyaline subapical spots, and with 

 tbe blackish discal spots rather larger and brighter. 



Exp. wings, <y & s , 40 to 48 millim. 



Hab.— Continental India; Bengal (Moore).— Andaman Islands; Port Blair (Wood-Mas. & de Nic.).— 

 Nicobar Islands; Nankowri (Wood-Mas. & de Nic.). — Malay Peninsula; Penang (Biggs— coll. Dist.); 

 Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Pinwill— Brit. Mus.) ; Singapore (Wallace— coll. Godm. & Salv.). 

 — Nias Island (coll. Dist.).— Siam (Druce).— Borneo ; Sandakan (Pryer— coll. Dist.). 



This species varies in the colour of the under surface of the posterior wings, which in 

 some specimens is wholly pale fuliginous-brown, and in others more or less olivaceous-brown 

 as in the specimen here figured. 



4. Tagiades dealbata, ii. sjk (Tnh. XXXV., fig. '21.) 



Wings above dark fuscous-brown ; anterior wings with a cluster of small pale semibyaline spots, of which 

 three or four are discal, and five in irregular series are subapical ; posterior wings with tbe outer margin 



