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Chinese allied Species. — Gondochates constricta (Athyma constricta, Alplieraky, 

 Rom. Mem. 1889, p. 110, pi. 5. Leech, Butt, of China, etc., p. 172). 

 Habitat. — W. China. 



Genus TACOLA. 



Athyma (sect. 1, part), Felder, Neues Lep. p. 32 (1861). 



Imago. — Male. Forewing subtriangular ; costa well arched, apex obtuse, 

 exterior margin slightly oblique and scalloped, posterior margin long ; cell area very 

 broad, open ; first subcostal emitted at nearly one-half before end of the cell, second 

 at one-seventh before the end ; second discocellular angled. Bindiving short, 

 triangular ; costa much arched in the middle, apex somewhat pointed, exterior 

 margin veiy oblique, convex and scalloped ; cell area very broad. Body very robust ; 

 palpi stout, compactly clothed below, hairy above, apical joint short, stout, and 

 obtusely pointed ; antennjB very long, with a stoutish elongated club ; eyes naked ; 

 sexes alike. 



Type. — T. Larymna. 



TACOLA LARYMNA (Plate 262, fig. 1, la, b, c? ? ). 



Limenitis Larymna, Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep.ii. pi. 35, fig. 1 (1850). 



Athyma Larymna, Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. ii. p. 274 (18.50). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Com- 

 pany, i. p. 172 (1857). Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 159, pi. 16, fig. 1, S (1863). de NicevOle, 

 Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 167 (1886). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside purpurescent-black, with darker inter- 

 spaces between the veins; markings bluish-white fading to creamy-white; cilia 

 alternated with white. Foreiving with an elongated claviform white cell-streak, 

 which is divided into three portions by a round spot across its middle ; a large 

 elongated triangular discocellular spot beyond the cell ; a transverse discal excurved 

 series of spots — composed of two large elongated spots preceded by a very small 

 slender subcostal streak, a larger oval discal spot between the middle and lower 

 medians, and two irregulai'ly quadrate lower spots ; beyond which is a submarginal 

 row of slender lunules, the one above the upper median being much larger and 

 forming a rounded spot ; followed by a less-defined pale brownish- white marginal 

 lunular line. Bindiving crossed by a rather narrow white inner-discal band and an 

 outer-discal macular band, followed by a marginal pale brownish- white lunular line. 

 Underside ochreous-brown, the outer area suffused with pale lilacine-grey ; the 

 interspaces between the veins clouded with darker brown ; mai'kings as above, but 

 pale lilacine-white. Foreiving also with a portion of the cell-streak broader but less 



