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



TAGIADES, Hlibner, Verz., p. 108 (1816), type japetus, 

 Cram. 



Tagiades distans. 



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



f. 1, la (1880). 

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



pi. 1578. 



Calcutta {Plotz), type in coll. Erhardt. 



Distans was sunk to ohscurus by de Niceville. I agree 

 with Elwes that the identification of olsm.rus is doubtful ; 

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

 have come from Java. I have never seen an example of 

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

 Elwes says, a form oi japettcs, Cram., which I have from 

 Amboina, Batch ian, and Alu Island, and it has been 

 recorded from Java, Sambawa, Bali, Lombok and the 

 Philippines. 



Tagiades utanus. PI, I, fig. 2. 



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

 pi. 1574. 



Malacca {Plotz), type in coll. Erhardt. 



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

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

 Moore, but differs from every species of the genus known 

 to me. 



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



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

 pi. 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 j)late; these remarks apply to the 

 smaller form with 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), pi. 1577. 



