1891.] W. Dolierfcy — The Butterflies of Siimba and Samlawa, Sj-c, 195 



119. Badamia exclamationis, Fab. 

 Sumba, Sambawa. 



Tagiadas Group. 



120. Tagiades brasidas, n. sp. 



Male, above dark brown, forewing with three subapical hyaline 

 spots, the first two approximate, the third well beyond the others, 

 small ; two small discal spots, and two terminally in the cell, hyaline. 

 Hindwing, dark brown, the disc irrorated with gray scales, and bearing 

 three dark spots ; the abdominal angle widely white enclosing a line 

 of marginal dark spots, the cilia long, white. Betow, forewing touched 

 with whitish below the lower median vein. Hindwing two-thirds white, 

 with three subapical dark discal spots (the first united with the apical 

 dark area), the second and third unequal, united, the apical border widely 

 dark brown, tapering to below the lower median vein, twice interrupted 

 by white. Female, like the male the hyaline spots in the cell of the 

 forewing united, the discal ones larger, the brown spots bordering the 

 hindwing smaller above and below. 



Sumba, and Sambawa, but those from the latter island may not be 

 quite the same. The species is nearest T. helferii from the Nicobars, 

 differing in the white border on the hindwing above, and the dark spots 

 on it below. The hyaline marks are also more conspicuous. This also 

 distinguishes is from T. alica, which is also much less white below, and 

 has no distinct marginal spots. 



121. Abaratha syrichthus, Feld. 



Above, the discal yellowish bands of the hindwing are much nar- 

 rower and more obscure than in Indian specimens. Below, the forewing 

 is altogether less white ; the white mark beyond the cell, which in the 

 Himalayan form extends far outwardly, is reduced to a slender, trans- 

 verse crescent ; the costal streaks above it are obsolete, the submar- 

 ginal line of quadi^ate spots much smaller, and the fifth hyaline spot 

 absent. 



Sumba, rare. 



Abaratha hypef.ides, n. sp. 

 Very near Pterygospidea hetias, Felder, from the Celebes, but the 

 bands and the discal hyaline spots of the forewing are absent, and the 

 apex of the hindwing is broadly dark. From A. sura it diffei"S in the 

 forewing, which is almost uniform dark brown above and below. The 

 hindwing is also less variegated above and below, the white area is 

 larger and more uniform, the inner line of spots is obsolete, the outer 



