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anterior to the subcostal nervure is, however, present), and the poste- 

 •riormost of the submarginal blue-green luuules of the hiudwing is also 

 absent. Herr E. G. Honrath (1. c.) has described this form from 

 Kiukiang in Central China as P. semifasciatus. Lastly, to complete 

 the series, I have here figured a male example from Sikkim in my 

 collection, in which the bine-green band of theforewingontheupperside 

 is reduced to the anteriormost and posteriormost spots, the latter, instead 

 of being large, quadrate, and filling the interspace from the submedian 

 nervure to the inner margin, is represented by an irregular small irrorated 

 patch of blue scales heavily oversprinkled with black scales. On the 

 underside of the forewing the discal band is faintly indicated by an 

 indistinct bluish-white fascia' in the normal position, which shows 

 through on the upperside faintly by transparency, the anteriormost and 

 posteriormost spots being present as on the upperside; on the hind win o- 

 this fascia is much paler than usual, and ends anteriorly on the 

 subcostal nervure instead of extending broadly up to the costa. In 

 other respects this specimen is normal. 



Family HESPERIIDiB. 



32. TAGIADES TOBA, n. sp., PI. T, Fig. 47, ^. 



Habitat : Selessoh and the Battak Mountains, N.-E. Sumatra. 



Expanse : $, 1*35 to 1*40 inches. 



Description : Male, Upperside, hotlt icings deep black. Fore- 

 iving with the following transparent white dots : — Two placed out- 

 wardly obliquely towards the outer end of the discoidal cell, the lower 

 one sometimes missing; a costal one placed between the costal nervure 

 and first subcostal nervule in a straight line with the dots in the 

 cell ; one in the second median interspace ; and five subapical 

 forming a perfect S-shaped figure. Cilia fuscous. Hindioing with the 

 anal angle broadly, as far as the second median nervule, pure white, 

 bearing a large round black spot on the margin in the submedian 

 interspace, and a small one in the first median interspace ; a fine 

 black anteciliary line in the white area. Cilia anteriorly fuscous, 

 posteriorly and along the abdominal margin pure white ; very long 

 at the anal angle. Underside, hoth loings dull black. Foreiving 

 with the dots as on the upperside ; a pale suffused indistinct twinned 

 spot towards the outer angle in the submedian interspace. Hindwing 

 almost entirely white, the costa and apes broadly and a narrow 



