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‘much in size. I append Mr. Distant’s description of it.* Mr. Elwes (Trans. Ent. Soc. 
Lond., 1888, p. 374, n. 236) records this species from Sikkim with doubt.’ I do not think 
it occurs north of Chittagong. Mr. Doherty writes: “This species is the commonest of the 
Gerydine from the Chittagong Hill Tracts to South-Eastern Borneo, found in great numbers 
wherever there is deep shade. I am inclined to think that this species (and not 7. ¢aras, mihi, 
with its conspicuous reddish apex and margin) is the A/lotinus unicolor of Felder, but without 
examining the types of that species it is imposible to decide,” 
“The celi in this species ends half-way between the bases of the second and third sub- 
costal nervules, On this character the genus Paragerydus has been formed, but it is imprebable 
that it can be retained distinct from Ad/otinus. P. taras seems to be structurally half-way 
between the two.” 
The figure shows both sides of a male example from Bhamo, Upper Burma, in my col- 
lection. 
623. Paragerydus taras, Doherty. 
P. taras, Doherty, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lviii, pt. 2, p. (1889). 
Hapitat : Tenasserim Valley, Burma ; Chittagong Hill Tracts. 
EXPANSE: & 9, 1°5 to 1°6 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : “MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings dark brown. Forewing dark brown, 
deepest apically, lacking the elongate discal brand of P. horsfieldt, Moore. UNDERSIDE, éoth 
wings creamy-white (dull bluish-grey in P. orsfieldz), the striz less numerous, especially 
discally and basally, and less evenly distributed ; the transverse macular discal band is nearly 
as obvious as in P. horsfieldi, but is composed of slender, crescent-shaped markings, beyond 
which is a submarginal line of blackish dots. C7/éa rather long, rufous-brown. orewing with 
the apex widely tinged with rufous-brown, the subapical blackish dots situated in the brown 
area touched outwardly with white. A¢edwing with a rufous-brown marginal line. FEMALE. 
UPPERSIDE, forewing lacking the pale discal area of the female of P. horsfieldi ; otherwise 
marked as in the male.” 
‘*In the male the forewing is longer and more acute than in P. horsfizidi, its outer mar- 
gin but little curved, while in the female its upper portion is strongly convex. In the hind- 
wing the degree of marginal undulation varies greatly, as is also the case with P. horsfieldg. 
The female is paler than the male, and while flying has almost the air of a white butterfly.” 
‘*The prehensores obviously differ from those of P. forsheldi, the tip of the unci 
(4egumina) being rounded and obliquely truncate, while in P. horsfeldi they are very oblique 
and regularly tapering. As seen from the side, the clasps (Aavfagones) end in two processes 
separated by the deep sinus, the upper longest, and ending in a strong hook directed upwards. 
In P. horsfieldi the wpper process is obsolescent, represented only by an angle in the upper 
contour of the other.” (Doherty, 1. c.) 
The types are from the Tenasserim Valley, east of Tavoy, Burma, it occurs also in 
the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Mr. Doherty notes that ‘an apparently identical form oceurs in 
the Malay Peninsula and South-Eastern Borneo, but I have no specimens now available for 
comparison.” 
Genus 97.-ALLOTINUS, Felder. (Plate XXVI). 
Allotinus, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep., vol. ii, p. 285 (1865); id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 208 (7884); 
p. 451 (1886) ; id., Butler, Ent. Month. Mag., vol. xxii, p. 59 (1885). 
“ Antenne gradually thickened, a little longer than in Miletus. Palpi with the third 
joint acicular [needle-shaped], rather long, especially in the female. Forewing, with the 
subcostal mervure three-branched [excluding terminal portion of subcostal nervure], the third 
branch rather long, emitted beyond the cell, the per discoidal neryule starting from the 
* “Mate. Uppersive, both wings dark brownish. Forewing with a pale ochraceous streak beyond the 
cell, extending along the third median nervule for about half its length. Unprrsipe, both wings greyish, thickly 
mottled with irregularly-shaped and sized brown markings. Czééa pale brownish. ody and é/egs more or less 
concolorous with the wings. - FemaLte. Resembling the male, but with the /orewixg proportionally shorter, 
and its outer margin convex. A/indwing with the outer margin dentately sinuate. UprEgsiDE, forewing with 
the pale streak [of the male] almost obsolete.” (Déstant, 1. c.) 
