122 TAPENA. 



172. TAPENA THWAITE8I, MOORE. 



Taptna thwaitesi, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 181, pi. 67, figs. 2, 2a 

 (1881). 



" Male. Upperside dark purple-brown, with blackish outer margins 

 and indistinct discal transverse macular fascia : forewing with two small 

 semi-diaphanous white spots on the costa near the apex. Underside 

 dark purple-brown. Female. Upper-and underside greyish purple-brown, 

 transverse macular fascia and outer border dark purple -brown : forewing 

 with three small semi-diaphanous white subapical spots, the lowest trans- 

 versely narrow, two spots also at end of the cell, the upper one very slender, 

 and two spots on the disc, each series being bordered by the dark fascia : 

 hindwing with a semi-diaphanous spot at end of the cell. 



Expanse: I T % to I T % inches." (Moore, I. c.) 



Occurs Ceylon (Wade)', Orissa (Taylor); Nilgiris (Hampson). 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



173. TAPENA AGNI, DE NICEVILLE. 



Plesioneiiva agni, de Niceville, J. A. S. B., vol. Hi, pt. 2, p. 87, n. 32, 

 pi. x, fig. 4, 9 (1883). 



Celcenorrhinus agni, de Niceville, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. iv, 

 p. 1 86, n. 31 (1889). 



" Male. Upperside dark brown, but so thickly covered with large 

 fulvous overlying scales as to leave the ground-colour visible only on the 

 outer margin, a streak within the apical spots, and narrowly all round the 

 transparent white spots. Forewing with a large quadrate spot filling the 

 end of cell, a small spot above it, a rather larger one at the base of the 

 second median interspace, a large one nearly equal in size to the spot in 

 the cell at the base of the first median interspace, and two small rounded 

 spots in the submedian interspace placed obliquely, the upper one below the 

 outer lower angle of the spot above ; three or four small subapical spots, the 

 upper one rather larger than the rest, the second out of line, being placed 

 nearer the base of the wing : all these spots lustrous semi-transparent 

 white. Cilia dark brown, with a pale spot at the apex, and another larger 

 one on the submedian interspace. Hindwing with a black spot at the 

 end of the cell (sometimes obsolete), and a curved series of eight similar 

 spots, the two upper ones round, the others oblong and placed in pairs, 

 the two lowest spots as in the specimen figured sometimes obso- 

 lete. Cilia dark brown, paler towards the apex. Underside pale brown. 

 Forewing with the spots as above, but with a pale fulvous submar- 

 ginal curved fascia. Hindwing as above, but paler fulvous, the spots 

 more prominent. Female a little paler than the male, the spots some- 

 what larger. Body fulvous, antennae black above, paler below. 



Nearest to P. chamunda, Moore, but conspicuously differing from that 

 species in having the hindwing marked with black spots above and below, 

 and the cilia not alternately brown and white as in that species. 



