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141. TAGIADES MENAKA, MOORE. 



Goniloba menaka, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C., p. 246. 



Pterygosidea, menaka, Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 778. 



" Male and female dark brown. 



Male. Forewing with six minute semi-transparent white spots, 

 recurving before the apex, and two similar spots from near middle of the 

 costa : hindwing with a large discal quadrate space pure white, a series of 

 brown marginal spots with their interspaces greyish, and within the white 

 space too smaller paler spots. Base of abdomen white. 



Female. Marked as in the male, but having the semi-transparent spots 

 on the forewing larger, the black marginal spots of hindwing more distinct 

 and apart, and with the two spots on the white space. Underside as the 

 upperside both sexes having the base of the hindwings, palpi beneath, legs 

 and body greyish-white, and the black spots on the hindwing extending 

 towards the base of the anterior margin. Palpi above brown. 



Expanse : \ i, 9 if inches. 



Habitat : N. E. Bengal." (Moore, P. Z. S., /. c.) 



Also occurs in Sikkim (de Niceville) ; Andamans (Wood-Mason and de 

 Niceville) ; Kangra (Moore}. 



In collection Indian Museum. 



142. TAGIADES ATTICUS, FABRICIUS. 



Hespeiria atticus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., vol. iii, pt. i, p. 339. 

 Tagiades atticus, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 175, pi. 68, fig. 2 (1880-81). 

 Tagiades atticus, var. calligana, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 387, pi. xxxiv, 

 fig. 6 (1886). 



" Upperside dark vinous-brown ; forewing with seven minute semi- 

 transparent white spots recurving before the apex, two within end of the 

 cell and one above its end ; hindwing with a large pure white quadrate 

 anal patch bordered before the apex by two rather large black spots, and 

 along exterior margin by four smaller spots ; cilia bordering the patch also 

 white. Underside paler, the white patch extending to base of hindwing. 

 Palpi legs and body beneath greyish-white. 



Expanse : # i, ^ inches." (Moore, I. c.) 



Occurs in Ceylon (Hutchison, Wade, Macwood) ; Orissa (Taylor); Cachar 

 (Wood-Mason and de Niceville)', Sikkim (de Niceville, Elwes) ; Nilgiris 

 (H amp son). 



Doherty records this species from Kumaon and considers it synonymous 

 with menaka, Moore; Mr. Elwes also considers it synonymous with 

 menaka, and states that specimens from Bhutan have no black spots 

 within the white patch of the hindwing. Mr. de Niceville states that the 

 only difference he can detect between the.two species is that T. atticm has 

 two spots in the cell of the forewing, and menaka only one, and that 



