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145. TAGIADES PRALAYA, MOORE. 



Goniloba pvalaya, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C., vol. i, p. 246 (1857). 



Pterygospidea pralaya, Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 779. 



" Male and female yellowish-brown, veins paler on the disc. Upper- 

 side : forewing with numerous series of variously-shaped small semi- 

 transparent white spots, five of which are placed obliquely before the apex, 

 the rest disposed from near middle of the costa and extending across the 

 disc, three of which are in the form of elongated streaks : hindwing with 

 the exterior half orange-yellow, having a subbasal series of longitudinal 

 black streaks between the yellow veins : apex with suffused blackish spots. 

 Abdomen with yellow segmental bands. Underside as above : forewing 

 with the veins from the base lined with yellow ; a series of submarginal 

 ill-defined yellow spots. Palpi, body, and legs yellowish-brown. 



Expanse : $ if ; 9 2 inches. 



Habitat : Bengal." (Moore, P. Z. S., I. c.} 



Also recorded from Ahsown, Upper Tenasserim (Limborg) ; Sikkim 

 (Elwes). 



T. trichoneura of Felder is distinguished by the pearly-white colour of 

 the hindwing beneath. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



146 TAGIADES TRICHONEURA, FELDER. 



Pterygospidea trichoneura, Felder, Wien. Ent. Mon., vol. iv, p. 402,. n. 

 31 (1860) ; id., Reise Nov. Lep., vol. iii, pi. 73, figs. 14, 15 (1867). 



Tagiades trichoneura, Kheil, Rhop. der Insel Nias, p. 38, n. 149 (1881). 



Tagiades trichoneura, (var.}, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 389, pi. xxxiv, fig. 

 20 (1886). 



" Wings above dark purplish-brown ; anterior wings with the neuration 

 more or less greyish, and with thirteen pale greyish spots, situated two in 

 and two above cell, four in oblique series beneath cell, and five subapical 

 (there is sometimes a small fourteenth subcostal spot as in the specimen 

 figured). Posterior wings with the outer margin from the upper median 

 nervule to anal angle broadly orange-yellow, and the same colour is 

 extended narrowly for a short distance along the margin as far as the lower 

 subcostal nervule, two elongate spots in cell, a discal series of elongate 

 spots and the apical margin dark purplish. Anterior wings beneath as 

 above, but with a few additional greyish spots ; posterior wings beneath 

 pearly- white, the costal and apical areas purplish-brown, containing a 

 series of dark purplish elongate spots. Body above purplish-brown, the 

 abdominal segments margined with greyish ; body beneath with legs 

 greyish. 



Expanse : 33 to 44 millim. 



Habitat : Malay Peninsula, Perak (Kiinstler, Calc. Mus.} ; Malacca 

 (coll. Standings and Felder} ; Nias Island (Kheil} ; Java (Felder}" (Distant, I.e.} 



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