TAPENA. 



Expanse : $ 1-6 ; $ 1-8 inches." (de Niceville, I. c.) 

 Habitat : Mr. de Niceville records two pairs from low elevations in 

 Sikkim, and informs me that it also occurs in the Khasi Hills, and I 

 obtained a single specimen at Tilin in the Yaw District, Upper Burmah. 

 In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



174.-TAPENA LAXMI, DE NICEVILLE. 



Plesioneura laxmi, de Niceville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. Ivii, pt. 2, 

 p. 290, n. 21, pi. xiii, fig. 5, 9 (1888). 



Celcenorrhinus laxmi, de Niceville, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., 

 vol. iv, p. 186, n. 32 (1889). 



" Habitat : Upper Tenasserim. 



Expanse: 9 (nee. c?), r8 inches. 



Description [Female] : Upperside, both wings, olive-greenish. 

 Forewing with a very large quadrate spot filling the outer end of the 

 discoidal cell and extending somewhat narrowly to the costa ; a small 

 quadrate spot near the base of the second median interspace; another 

 quadrate spot below it fully four times as large, in the middle of the 

 first median interspace ; two dots placed obliquely in the submedian 

 interspace, the upper one placed below the lower outer angle of the 

 large spot in the interspace above ; three subapical well-separated dots 

 in a curved series, the upper one twice as large as the other two taken 

 together all these spots lustrous transparent white; an indistinct dark 

 macular submarginal band, and two small black dots placed one above the 

 other obliquely near the base of the submedian interspace. Hindwing 

 rather paler than the forewing; a subcostal black spot placed near the 

 base of the wing, two parallel discal black macular bands. Underside, 

 both wings ochreous-brown. Forewing marked as above. Hindwing 

 with the bands broken up into spots and arranged thus : a largish 

 black spot in the discoidal cell, almost completely surrounded by a 

 series of spots beginning with a moderate-sized one near the base of 

 the subcostal interspace, a very large round one near its middle, then 

 about eight small spots curving round to the base of the wing. Cilia 

 brownish throughout. Antennce ochreous-brown above, the hook black 

 above, ochreous below. Body and head more or less concolorous with 

 the wings above and below. 



I have a single specimen taken by Major C. T. Bingham in March 

 in the Thoungyeen Forests, Burma. It is nearest to T. agm, mihi, but 

 the ground-colour of the upperside is entirely different, as are also many 

 of the markings/' (de Niceville^ 1. c. in J. A. S. B.} 



The type specimen was originally described as a male, but Mr. de 

 Niceville informs me it is a female, and that he has since received the 

 true male, which he will shortly describe. 



