CALLIANA, TAGIADES. QI 



GENUS XXX. CALLIANA. 



Calliana, Moore, P. Z. S., 1878, p. 686. 



" Wings ample, broad. Forewing trigonal ; cell long, broad ; costal 

 vein extending to one-third from apex ; subcostal vein curved at end of the 

 cell, first, second, third and fourth branches arising at equal distances before 

 end of cell, fifth from its end, the three former terminating before the apex, 

 fourth at the apex, and fifth below it ; disco-cellulars angled close to the 

 upper end ; upper radial from the angle, lower from their middle ; median 

 vein three-branched, widely apart, the upper from lower end of cell, middle 

 and lower branches at equal distances, the lower from near base of cell ; 

 submedian slightly recurved. Hindwing broadly ovate ; subcostal two- 

 branched, second before end of cell ; disco-cellulars slightly angled ; radial 

 from their angle ; median three-branched, middle branch from immediately 

 before end of cell. Body small, robust, abdomen short. Palpi short, thick, 

 pilose, ascending, third joint short, conical. Antennae slender. Legs 

 pilose." (Moore, I. c.) 



134. CALLIANA PIERIDOIDES, MOORE. 



Calliana pieridoides, Moore, P. Z. S., 1878, p. 687, pi. xlv, fig. 2. 



"Male. Upperside creamy-white, glossy; forewing with the apex 

 broadly vinous-brown, the end of the median veins also with a vinous- 

 brown-speckled spot : hindwing with a curved upper discal decreasing 

 series of five purple-black spots, the upper one large and situated between 

 the costal and subcostal veins ; the end of the veins also with a small 

 vinous-brown-speckled spot. Underside white ; forewing with the costal 

 base, a patch beyond end of the cell and the outer border pale vinous- 

 brown : hindwing with a short black narrow streak at end of costal border, 

 four large subasal and a curved discal series of seven purple-black spots, 

 a marginal series of broad vinous-brown spots one at end of each vein. 

 Thorax and abdomen white ; collar, top of head palpi and tip of abdomen 

 pale ferruginous; tip of palpi and antennae black; legs pale ferruginous 

 above, purple-brown beneath. 



Expanse : 2-f- inches. 



Habitat :? N. E. Bengal." (Moore, 1. c.) 



Mr. Doherty, records several males from Margherita, Assam, but 

 obtained no females, but states he once saw a male circling round a dark 

 Hesperid which he failed to obtain and which possibly was the female. 



GENUS XXXI. TAGIADES. 



Tagiades, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 108 (1816). 

 Ptevygospidea, Wallengren, Rhop. Caffr., p. 53 (1857). 

 Tagiades, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 175 (1880-81). 

 Tagiades, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 387 (1886). 



" Forewing triangular ; apex pointed ; exterior margin oblique, very 

 slightly convex, even ; first, second and third subcostalsat equal distances, 



