94 TAGIADES. 



Also recorded from Cachar (Wood-Mason and de Niceville)', Nilgiris 

 (Hampson) ; Orissa (Taylor). 



I have this species commonly from the Kadur District, Mysore. The 

 expanse of my specimens is 1-85 inches. 



In collection Indian Museum. 



139. TAGIADES MEETANA, MOORE. 



Tagiades meetana, Moore, P. Z. S., 1878, p. 842, pi. liii, fig. i. 



" Male. Allied to T. obscurus, Mabille, from Java : forewing above 

 similar : hindwing differs in the marginal area of the anal angle being only 

 slightly white-speckled between the veins ; the cilia below it dark brown 

 with a very narrow whitish inner line ; on the underside there is less white, 

 and the black border more lengthened and prominent, the cilia also being 

 brown. 



Expanse : if inches. 



Habitat : Meetan, 3,000 ft. (U. Tenasserim) April." (Moore, I. c.) 



Also recorded from Tavoy (Elwes and de Niceville) ; Belgaum (Swinhoe). 



I have several specimens of this species from Beeling, U. Tenasserim. 



HO. TAGIADES ALICA, MOORE. 



Tagiades alica, Moore, P. Z. S., 1877, p. 593, pi. Iviii, fig. ii $ . 



Tagiades alica, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, J. A. S. B., vol. xlix, pt. 

 2, 1880, p. 241, n. 79, 9 . 



" Male. Allied to T. obscurus, Mabille, from Java, but of a blacker 

 colour, the forewing being more pointed, the hindwing more produced at the 

 anal angle. Markings above similar ; on the underside the hindwing has 

 more prominent black discal marks, and a much broader black border on 

 the grey portion of the outer margin. 



Expanse : i J inches. 



Habitat : S. Andamans." (Moore, I. c.) 



" Female. Above lighter, the dark markings consequently appearing 

 more prominent. 



The anterior wing has a minute transparent speck behind the three sub- 

 apical ones, a very indistinct and small double whitish spot near the end of 

 the cell on the upperside, and two discal whitish spots on the underside, the 

 anterior one of which only is partially transparent and visible on the upper- 

 side. The posterior wing is less white above and has the anal angle 

 rounded as in T. obscurus." (Wood-Mason and de Niceville, I. c.) 



Also recorded from Andamans by Messrs. Wood-Mason and de Niceville, 

 and from Tavoy by Messrs. Elwes and de Niceville, who note that this 

 species " Differs from T. meetana in having the upperside of the hindwing 

 broadly white, not slightly white-speckled between the veins, as in that 

 species, and the cilia white throughout instead of being tipped with dark 

 brown." 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



