98 ABARATHA. 



I have two specimens of this species from Beeling, Upper Tenasserim, they 

 are absolutely identical with Distant's figure, and have the underside of 

 the hindwing pearly-white and not ochraceous as in T. pmUya. 



There are single specimens of this and the preceding species in the 

 Phayre Museum, Rangoon, the former from the Karen Hills and the latter 

 from Tavoy. They are readily separable by the colour of the underside of 

 the hindwing. 



14 7t _TAGIADES HELFERI, FELDER. 



Pterygospidea helferi, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien., voL 

 xii, p. 483, n. 116 (1862). 



"Wings above fuscous, forewing on both sides with minute spots 

 beyond the disc and some submarginal hyaline dots, obsolete discal spots 

 dusky-black, hindwing on both sides with a discoidal spot and others 

 exterior more or less obsolete dusky-black, underside with the inner margin 

 washed with bluish-white, hind margin obsoletely fuscous. </ . 



Allied to P. japetns, Cramer. Occurs with slight variations on the 

 Indian continent. The Nicobar specimens are smaller than the continental 

 ones. The species has a certain resemblance to some species of Eudamus. 



Habitat : Pulo Milu [Nicobars] ." (Felder, I. c.) 



Mr. de Niceville informs me that this species occurs commonly in the 

 Nicobar group of islands, and has been obtained on Kamorta, Nankowri r 

 Katschall, Kondul, and Meroe, by the late Mr. F. A. de Roepstorff 

 and Mr. Man. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



GENUS XXXII.-ABARATHA. 



Abaratha, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 181 (1881). 



Abaratha, Distant, Rhop. MaL, p. 391 (1886). 



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

 slightly convex and uneven ; posterior margin short ; first and fourth 

 subcostals at equal distances apart, first emitted at one-third before end 

 of the cell ; disco-cellulars inwardly oblique, upper radial from angle near 

 subcostal, lower from their middle ; cell two-thirds the wing ; middle 

 median at one-fourth and lower at two-thirds before end of the cell ; sub- 

 median much recurved : hindwing short, apex angular, exterior margin 

 sinuously angular below the apex and in the middle ; abdominal margin 

 rather long ; second subcostal at one-fourth before end of the cell ; disco- 

 cellulars nearly erect, upper shortest, radial from their middle ; cell broad, 

 middle median from close to end of the cell and lower at beyond one-third 

 before the end ; submedian straight, internal recurved. Body short, robust ; 

 palpi laterally compressed in front, terminal joint short, conical ; legs 

 naked ; antennae hooked, club thick and bluntly pointed. 



Type: A. ransonnetii" (Moore, I.e.) 



