4 Colonel C. Swinhoe's Descriptions of New Species of 



TAGIADES, Hiibner, Verz., p. 108 (181G), type japetus, 

 Cram. 



Tagiades distans. 



Tagiadcs distans, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i, p. 175, pi. Ixviii, 



f. 1, \a (1880). 

 Tagiades athos, Plotz, J. B. Nass. Ver., xxxvii, p. 48 (1884), 



pl. 1578. 



Calcutta (Flat:), type in coll. Erhardt. 



Distans was sunk to ohscurus by de Nicdville. I agree 

 with Elwes that the identification of ohscurus is doubtful; 

 no one seems to have seen the type which is supposed to 

 ])ave come from Java. I have never seen an example of 

 distans from any of the Islands; ohscurus is probably, as 

 Elwes says, a form of /a^jc^ws, Cram., which I have from 

 Amboina, Batcliian, and Alu Island, and it has been 

 recorded from Java, Sambawa, Bali, Lombok and the 

 Philippines. 



Tagiades utanus. PI. I, fig. 2. 



Tagiades %itanus, Plotz, Berl. ent. Zeit., xxix, p. 230 (1885), 

 pl. 1574. 



Malacca {Plotz), type in coll. Erhardt. 



I have an example from Brunei, N. Borneo, which seems 

 to be identical with Pliitz's figure; it is nearest meectana, 

 Moore, but differs from every species of the genus known 

 to me. 



Tagiades neira. Pl. I, figs. 10, 11, 12. 



Tagiades ncira, Plotz, Berl. ent. Zeit., xxix, p. 230 (1885), 

 pl. 1575. 



Aru Islands {Plotz), type in coll. Erhardt. 



I have both sexes from Aru ; it is closely allied to 

 T. sivoa, Swinhoe, Ann. and Mag. N. H. (7), xiv, p. 419 

 (1904), from Humboldt Bay. Plotz has figured two very 

 distinct forms in his plate; these remarks apply to the 

 smaller form Avith narrow white band on the hind-wings ; 

 the other represents a form new to me, allied to atticus, 

 Fabr. 



Tagiades menanto. 



Tagiades menanto, Plotz, Berl. ent. Zeit., xxix, p. 231 

 (1885), pl. 1577. 



