42 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



TAGIADES HELFERI. 



Plate 767, figs. 2, (^ , 2a, ^ . 



Ptrrygosplden heifer!, Felder, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien. xii. p. 483 (1862). Moore, Proc. Zool. Sec. 

 1877, p. 593. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 98 (1891); id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Sec. ix. 1895, 

 p. 422. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 140. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 84. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olive-ljrowu. Furewing with three sub-apical 

 white dots in an outward curve from the costa, more obliquely outwards than usual ; a 

 very minute dot at the end of the cell, a small round spot near the base of the second 

 median interspace, and a smaller spot obliquely inwards below it, the uj^per dot some- 

 times absent ; the wing with shades of colour caused by indistinct darker brown narrow 

 streaks below the veins and an indistinct patch in each of the two lower interspaces. 

 niadwing with very indistinct markings, a spot at the end of the cell, a discal series of 

 brown spots and a narrow marginal band, all barely visible. Cilia of both wings paler 

 lirown, touched with white in parts on the lower half of the hindwing. Underside. 

 Foreioing nearly as dark as on the upperside, the hinder marginal space narrowly pale ; 

 the spots as above. Hindiciiig with the apical space above the sub-costal vein brown, 

 some brown scales on the margin in the second median interspace, and a narrower 

 brown patch on the margin in the next lower interspace ; the rest of the wing white, 

 the l)asal portion tinted with blue, the three upper black spots of the usual discal series, 

 the lower one small, sometimes another very small one below it ; a very narrow pale 

 brown maro'inal, somewhat diffuse band. Cilia of forewans; Ijrown and the hind- 

 wing white with brown tips, except towards the anal angle, where it is pure white ; 

 palpi grey ; head and body al »ove concolorous with the wings, top of head with a whitish 

 spot on each side ; body below white, tinted with blue, legs white. 



Expanse of wings, $ Vf-^ inches. 



Habitat. — Nicobars. 



Watson states in Hesp. Ind. that de Niceville informed him that it occurs com- 

 monly in the Nicobar group, and has been obtained at Kamorta, Nankowri, Katschall, 

 Kondul and Meroe, but it is not in the B. M., and we have not been able to obtain a 

 female ; our description and figures are from a male from the Nicobars in our collection ; 

 Felder's type came from Pulo Milu. 



TAGIADES DISTANS. 



Plate 768, figs. 1, (^, la, 9, lb, ?. 



TfKjiades (llstans, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 17-5, pi. 68, figs. 1, la (1881). Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 93 

 (1891); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 54; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 422. 

 Swinhoe (part), Trans. Eiit. Soc. 1908, p. 4. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 71. 



Tagiadcs uhscurus, Elwes and Edwards (part). Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 141, 



