62 TARACTROCERA. 



divided by a nervnre. The underside is stated to be similar. It is 

 described as from Surinam. 



Recorded from Bombay (Swinhoe). 



In collection de Niceville. 



GENUS XXIII. TARACTROCERA. 



Tavactrocera, Butler, Cat. Lep. Fab., p. 279 (1869). 



Tamctrocera, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 172 (1880-81). 



" Wings small : forewing triangular : fourth and fifth subcostals, and 

 upper radial fiom end of the cell ; disco-cellulars very oblique, slender, 

 upper longest, lower radial from their middle ; the middle median at 

 one-fifth and lower at one-half before end of the cell ; submedian recurved; 

 hindwing short, exterior margin very convex ; second subcostal at one-fifth 

 before end of the cell ; disco-cellulars outwardly oblique, radial from 

 the middle ; the middle median near to end and lower at one-third before 

 end of the cell ; submedian straight, internal recurved. Body rather 

 stout ; palpi erect, terminal joint long and slender ; legs naked ; antennae 

 with a short broad spatular club. 



Type, T. mavius." (Moore, I. c.) 



86. TARACTROCERA MCEVIUS, FABRICIUS. 



Hesperia mcevius, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., vol. iii, p. 352 (1793). 



Taractrocem mcevius, Butler, Cat. Lep. Fab., p. 279, pi. 3, fig. 13. 



Hesperia flaccus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl., p. 434 (1798). 



Pamphila sagara, Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 792. 



Taractrocera mcevius, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 172, pi. 70, fig. 5 

 (1880-81). 



" Male and female. Upperside pale olive-brown : forewing with a 

 yellowish- white slender streak at lower end of the cell and joined above 

 at the end by a smaller streak reaching to the costa ; three minute spots 

 obliquely before the apex, two below them nearer the outer margin, 

 and a discal sinuous series of small spots : hindwing with a slender medial 

 discal series of very small spots. Cilia yellowish-white. Underside 

 paler; brighter tinted in female; markings more distinct, the end of the 

 discal series of spots on the hindwing extending upward toward the 

 costa, and also having a small spot at end of the cell. 



Expanse : -fl inches." (Moore, I. c. in Lep. Cey.) 



Recorded from Ceylon (Hutchison, Wade, Mackwood) ; Calcutta (de 

 Niceville)', Mhow (Swinhoe)', Kumaon (Doherty); N. W. India (Butler)', 

 Orissa (Taylor)', Kangra, N.-W. Himalayas (Moore)', Cachar (Wood- 

 Mason and de Niceville)', Nilgiris (Hampson)\ Sikkim (Elwes). 



I have obtained the species at Beeling (Upper Tenasserim), Poun- 

 gadaw (Upper Burma), Rangoon, Berhampore (Ganjam), and Madras. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville, 



