TAPENA. 1 .2 1 



171.-COLADENIA HAMILTONII, DE N/CEV/LLE- 



Coladenia Immiltonii, de Niceville, J. A, S. B., vol. Ivii, pt. 2, p. 291, n. 

 24, pi. xiii, fig. 8, <? (1888). 



" Male. Upperside, forewing olive-greenish fuscous, with two very 

 irregular broad discal black fasciae joined in the middle ; three most 

 minute transparent subapical dots, the uppermost the largest, placed at 

 the outer edge of the anterior portion of the outer black fascia, a very 

 minute similar spot in the second median interspace, a very attenuated 

 spot across the middle of the first median interspace, both placed on the 

 outer black fascia ; the inner margin somewhat broadly irrorated with 

 greyish scales ; a submarginal indistinct broad blackish fascia. Hindwing, 

 ground-colour much as in the forewing, but the outer third of the wing 

 irrorated with grey scales ; a recurved black macular decreasing band 

 from the costa near the apex of the wing to the second median nervule ; 

 the disco-cellular nervules defined by a pale line. Underside, both wings 

 vinous-fuscous. Forewing with the transparent spots as above. Hind- 

 wing with the disc irrorated with whitish ; the macular black band much 

 as above ; an anteciliary whitish line. Cilia fuscous. 



Expanse: cf 1*6 inches. 



Habitat: Sylhet. 



The Rev. Walter A. Hamilton, after whom I have much pleasure in 

 naming it, obtained a single specimen in Sylhet in the spring. It is quite 

 unlike any species known to me, and I place it in the genus Coladenia only 

 because it agrees in outline with C. tissa, Moore." (de Niceville, I. c.) 



In collection de Niceville. 



GENUS XLIII, TAPENA. 



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



" Wings small ; forewing short, apex acute ; exterior margin slightly 

 oblique, convexly angular in the middle ; first subcostal emitted at nearly 

 one-half before end of the cell ; cell extending two-thirds the wing 

 disco-cellulars obliquely convex, upper bent close to subcostal, upper radial 

 from its angle, lower from their middle ; the middle median branch at one- 

 fifth, lower at four-fifths before end of the cell ; submedian slightly curved 

 in the middle ; hindwing quadrate, short, broad ; apex slightly and middle 

 of exterior margin acutely angular ; abdominal margin somewhat long ; cell 

 broad, extending nearly two-thirds the wing ; second subcostal at one-third 

 before end of the cell ; disco-cellulars slender, outwardly oblique, radial very 

 slender, middle median from close to end of the cell ; lower at one-fourth 

 before the end ; submedian straight, internal curved. Body robust ; palpi 

 laxly compressed, terminal joint rather long, thick, cylindrical ; antenna- 

 slender, somewhat short, hooked tip slender. 



Type : T. thivaitesi^ (Moon, I. c.) 



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