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Genus TARAKA. 

 Taraka, de Niceville (Doherty MS.}, Butt. Ind. iii, p. 57. 



Type, T. Jiamada, Druce, from Sikhim. 



Range. Sikhim eastwards through Assam to China and Japan, 

 southwards through Burma and Tenasserim to Java. 



d" $ . Fore wing : in shape much as in Spalyis, but the termen 

 not so convex ; cell proportionately shorter, not quite half length 

 of wing ; discocellulars very slender but all present, upper very 

 short, lower the longest, slightly concave ; vein 8 absent, vein 9 



from middle of 7; 10 and 11 



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 costa l; 12 short, ending on 

 costa before apex of cell, 

 Hind wing : costa bluntly 

 subangulate near base, then 

 straight to apex; apex roundly 

 produced ; termen convex ; 

 Fig. m-TomA* tomato. tfpnus rounded ; dorsum very 



a. Venation fore wing. slightly arched ; cell short, 



b. Antenna and palpus. not half length of wing ; 



vein 3 from a little before 



lower apex of cell; vein 7 from a little before upper apex of 

 cell ; vein 8 long, strongly curved upwards at base, then straight 

 nearly to apex of wing. Antenna slender, not nearly so stout as 

 in Spalgis, club very gradual ; palpi subporrect, third joint sub- 

 fusiform, about half the length of the second ; eyes naked ; body 

 slender ; legs proportionately short, very stout ; the tibia? of the 

 fore legs incrassate in the middle, clothed with soft, fluffy, long 

 hair-like scales ; tarsi exarticulate in both sexes. 



683. Taraka hamada, Druce (Miletus), Cist. Ent. \, 1875, p. 361 ; 

 Slices (Miletus), P. Z. S. 1881, p. 882 ; de N. (Miletus), J. A. S. B. 

 1883, p. 76, pi. 1, fig. 16$; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 58, 

 pi. 26, fig. 164 $ . 



c? 2 . Upperside: uniform very pale brown, somewhat paler in the 

 2 , the black spots of the underside faintly apparent by transparency. 

 Underside : white, with round black spots and markings as follows : 

 Fore wing : a spot at base of wing followed in transverse order 

 by two spots, again two spots, then an irregular row of five spots 

 that crosses near the apex of cell, the lower two coalescent, beyond 

 that another curved row of five spots, tw-o of which are in inter- 

 space 3, then a complete curved series of outwardly-pointed and a 

 terminal series of inwardly-pointed similar spots. The spots of the 

 last series cross a well-marked but very slender anticiliary black 

 line, and thus cause the white cilia to the wing to be alternated with 

 black. Hind wing : similarly crossed by five rows, all of which 

 are more or less curved outwards, of black spots, followed by a 



