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apex. Upperside of a pale olivaceous-brown, the dusky margins less 

 distinct on both wings, the apical and discal spots smaller. Female, 

 upperside also paler than in T. ravi, the apical spots on forewing some- 

 what smaller, the cell spots similar, the two discal spots somewhat larger. 

 Underside : forewing with the spots as above : hindwing more intensely 

 whitish-grey, the discal black spots much smaller and less denned. 



Expanse : $ 2, 9 i\ inches. 



Habitat : Khasia Hills ; Shillong ; Assam." (Moore, I. c.) 



Also recorded from Calcutta (de Niceville). 



In collection Indian Museum. 



137. TAQIADE8 DISTAN8, MOORE. 



Tagiadesdistans, Moore, Lep. Cey.,vol. i,p. 175, pi. 68, figs. I, 10(1880-81). 



" Male and female. Upperside vinous-brown, discal areas suffused 

 with greyish-brown : forewing with three minute semi-transparent white 

 spots before the apex, two nearly obsolete below them, and two slightly 

 larger spots in the disc, each bordered with black ; a slight black spot 

 below the cell near the base : hindwing with a greyish-white border 

 extending from above anal angle to two-thirds the exterior margin ; a 

 blackish spot at end of the cell, and a curved series across the disc ; 

 cilia bordering the band also white. 



Expanse : tf I T V, i T 9 o inches. 



Allied to T. ravi, from which it may be distinguished by having the 

 white band on the hindwing. The Javan T obscurus, Mabille, is also nearly 

 allied, but differs in the absence of the discal semi-transparent spots on the 

 forewing." (Moore, I. c.) 



Occurs in Ceylon (Wade, Hutchison). 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



138. TAGIADES OBSCURU8, MABILLE. 



T. obscurus, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. de France, fifth series, vol. vi, 

 p. 274, n. 22 (1876). 



" Forewings dusky, with three minute apical dots arranged somewhat 

 in a circle on a black border. Hindwings with the base and exterior margin 

 concolorous, but from the anal angle to the middle of the margin bluish- 

 ashy, with three black dots on the border at the exterior margin. Underside 

 hindwings broadly bluish-white with marginal black spots and the three 

 black dots spoken of above but smaller. 



This species belongs to that section in which the lower wings are not 

 white with black spots, but brown and washed with bluish-white scales. 



We have seen three males ; there are very like the female of 

 T. gana, Moore. 



Habitat : Malay Archipelago, Java ? " (Mabille, I. c.) 



Expanse (not given.) 



