144 MESSES. H. J. ELWES AND JAMBS EDWARDS: 



! Tagiades nana, n. sp. (Plate XX. fig. 13, <3 .) 



6 . Upperside dark olive-brown, with a pure white patch next the tornus of the 

 hind wing bearing two black spots. Fore wing with nine transparent white points 

 placed as follows, namely, two near the apex of the cell, one near the basal third of 

 cell 3, one near the middle of each of cells 4, 5, and 6, one near the basal third of cell 7, 

 one near the middle of cell 8, and one near the apex of cell 11 ; fringe concolorous. 

 Hind wing with a pure white patch reaching from the dorsum as far as vein 3, and 

 one-fourth or one-fifth the length of the wing, its inner edge rather sharply defined; 

 a large spot at the apex of vein 1 6 and a smaller one at the apex of vein 2, black ; 

 fringe white from the tornus to vein 4, thence dark brown. Underside : fore wing a 

 little paler than above : hind wing bluish white, costal region as far as vein 6 brown, 

 the colours suffused ; a large black spot near the middle of cells 4-5, a smaller one in 

 cell 6, and the indication of one or more dark spots nearer the base of the wing ; 

 on the pale part of the wing there is a fine black terminal line, which expands into 

 triangular spots at the apices of veins 1 b, 2, and 3. Body above dark olive-brown, 

 abdomen beneath bluish white. 



Expanse 32 mm. 



This, the smallest of the genus known to us, appears quite distinct ; the type 

 specimen is in my collection. 



Hab. Khasia hills (native collectors, ^de Doncaster) ; island of Nias (in coll. 

 Bothschild). 



Tagiades toba. 

 Tagiades toba, de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 19, pi. T. fig. 47, ^ . 



"■Male. Upperside : botli wings deep black. Fore wing with the following transparent 

 white dots : — Two placed outwardly 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 ; one in the second median interspace ; and five subapical forming 

 a perfect S-shaped figure. Cilia fuscous. Hind wing 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 : 

 both wings dull black. Fore wing with the dots as on the upperside, a pale suffused 

 twinned spot towards the outer angle in the submedian interspace. Hind wing almost 

 entirely white, the costa and apex broadly, a narrow anteciliary line alone being of the 

 dull black ground-colour ; the posterior edge of the blackish area bearing four rounded 

 deep black spots ; the two black spots on the outer margin as on the upperside. 

 Thorax and abdomen above black, but the latter tipped with white. Palpi beneath, 

 thorax, legs, and abdomen beneath pure white." 



