40 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Japetus Group. 



TAGIADES ATTICUS. 



Plate 767, figs. 1, (J , la, 9 , 1'j, cj . Ic, 9 (one extreme form). Id, ^ , 1e, 9 , If, ^ , Ig, 9 (another extreme 



form). 



Hespcria atlicus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (i.), p. 339 (1793). Aurivillius, Ent. Tidsk. 1897, 

 p. 150. 



Goniloba ravi, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 246 (1857). 



Pterygospidea ravi, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 779. 



Taijiades ravi, Butler, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1870, p. 96. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 109. Watson, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 54. Wood-Mason and de Niceville, id. 1886, p. 389. Ehves 

 and de Niceville, id. p. 439. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 388, pi. 34, fig. 1 (1886). Watson, 

 Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1888, p. 27; id. idem, 1891, p. 58; id. Hesp. Ind. p. 92 (1891). 

 Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 654. Watson, id. 1893, p. 54. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 1893, p. 318. Betham, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist: Soc. 1893, p. 428. de Niceville, Gazetteer of 

 Sikkim, Butt. p. 178 (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 422. Elwes 

 and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 140. Adamson, Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumberland, 

 etc. 1908, p. 139. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 84. 



Tdijiailcs Jihasiana ravina, Friihstorfer, I.e. 



Im.\go. — Male. Upperside fuliginous-brown. Forewlng with three minute suli- 

 apical white dots, one of them, sometimes two of them, often absent ; a minute dot at 

 the end of the cell, another near the base of the second median interspace, and a third 

 below it, in the middle of the first median interspace, sometimes one, sometimes two 

 of them only present, sometimes all are wanting. H'wdwing with indications of a 

 curved discal series of spots darker than the ground colour, often altogether invisible. 

 Cilia of both wings brown. Underside. Forewlng paler than it is above, the hinder 

 marginal area and a broad squarish patch at the hinder angle paler than the rest of the 

 wing, the minute dots as above. Hindwing greyish-white, the costal and outer 

 marginal areas somewhat suffused with brown ; a curved series of dark brown discal 

 spots, the lower ones usually mere dots, often invisible. 



Female. Upperside coloured like the male, but the shade of colour more variable 

 in different examples in this sex than it is in the male, the sub-apical dots often larger 

 (not always) and generally three in number ; the spots in the disc much larger, the one 

 at the end of the cell round, the outer spot near the base of the second median inter- 

 space usually conical, the one below it the largest and quadrate and two small spots 

 lietween it and the hinder margin. Jlindwing with an obscure blackish spot at the 

 end of the cell and a discal series, all of them very indistinct in many examples. 



