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broad bluish-white band ; palpi above black, beneath white with black streaks ; body 

 beneath and legs bluish-grey. 



Expanse, c? 2i7,, ? 3 inches. 



Habitat. — Mergui Archipelago ; Malay Peninsula ; Sumatra ; Borneo. 



DiSTEiBOTiON. — Dr. J. Anderson obtained two males at " Minthantoung, Mergui, 

 in December" (J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 188(5, 37). Mr. W. L. Distant records it from 

 Province Wellesley, Malacca, Malay Peninsula. We possess specimens from 

 Malacca, and also from Sarawak, Borneo. Mr. L. de Niceville states that " in N.B. 

 Sumatra it is very rare ; being a conspicuous insect when at rest with folded wings, 

 in consequence of the beautiful coloration and markings of the underside " (J. A. S. 

 Bengal, 1895, 417). 



Chinese Allied Species. — Tacorsea Elioesi (Athyma Blwesi, Leech, Butt, of 

 China, etc., p. 170, pi. 17, fig. 7, $ (1892). Habitat. W. and C. China. 



Genus TATISIA. 



Athyma (sect. 1, part), de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 166 (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Foreioing triangular ; costa slightly arched, apex rounded, 

 exterior margin oblique and slightly scalloped, posterior margin rather short ; first 

 subcostal branch emitted at two-fifths before end of the cell, second at one-fifth 

 before the end ; middle discocellular concave, lower slender, recurved ; two upper 

 medians emitted at some distance beyond lower end of the cell ; minute Androconia 

 or scent-scales (as described on page 142) present, chiefly found upon the basal area 

 of the upperside between the median and submedian vein. Hindiving short, conical; 

 exterior margin oblique, convex anteriorly, scalloped, anal angle obtuse. Body 

 moderately robust; palpi rather laxly scaled below, hairy above, apex pointed; 

 antennae with a slender elongated club ; eyes naked. Sexes alike. 



Type. — T. Kanwa. 



TATISIA KANWA (Plate 258, fig. 2, 2a, h, S 2). 



Athyma Kanwa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 17. pi. 51, fig. 2. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., 

 ii. p. 169 (1886). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside olivescent brownish-black, with blacker 

 intervening patches between the veins ; markings bluish-white ; cilia alternated with 

 white. Forewing with a bluish-white narrow slightly clavate entire streak along lower 

 area of the cell, followed by a large elongated-triangular spot beyond the discocellular 

 veinlets ; a transverse discal excurved series of six spots, the three upper obliquely 

 subapical, the third sometimes small or obsolete, the others inwardly oblique, the 



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