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wiug and a little of the aual area bluish-grey ; the spots of the discal series fairly well 

 pronounced, and usually there are three brown spots in the bluish-grey anal margin. 

 Cilia of forewing brown, of the hiudwing brown below the apex, paling hiudwards, 

 becoming white and Ijrown towards the anal angle ; in some examples the bluish-grey 

 area is very limited. Underside. Forewing paler brown, markings as above, a pale 

 shade on the lower half near the hinder angle outside the indistinct discal band, hinder 

 margin also narrowly pale. Hindwing with the costal space broadly suffused with 

 brown, in alica there is only a narrow brown costal band ; the rest of the wing dull 

 whitish, tinted with blue, and with some basal blue suffusion, the discal and marginal 

 spots as in alica, but smaller and paler ; palpi brownish-ochreous, white at the sides ; 

 thorax and abdomen below white, legs brownish-ochreous ; head and body above con- 

 colorous with the wings. 



Female. Upperside coloured like the male, the sul)-apical dots similar, a semi- 

 hyaline white spot at the end of the cell, a larger one near the base of the second 

 median interspace, with another similar spot attached to its inner lower side, both more or 

 less round. Ilindiring uniform in colour without the bluish-grey aual margin. Cilia 

 similar. Underside. Forewing paler, markings as above. Hindwing as iu the male. 



Expanse of wings, ,? ? IfV to 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Burma. 



Distribution. — The type came from Meetan ; we have both sexes from Palone, 

 Thoungyan and the Ataran Valley ; Manders records it from the Shan States ; Elwes 

 and de Niceville from Tavoy ; Elwes from E. Pegu. 



TAGIADES OBSCURUS. 

 Plate 76S, figs. 3, $ , o;i, 9 , 3b, ^ . 



T((tj!ivh's ohscurus, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (3), vi. p. 274 (1876). Wood-Mason and de Niceville, 

 Jouru. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 389, pi. 17, fig. 9, ?. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 93 (1891). 

 Fergusson, Jouin. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 448. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 6.55. 

 Watson, id. 1893, p. 54 ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 422 ; id. idem, x. 1896, p. 673. 

 Davidson, Bell and Aitken, id. xi. 1897, p. 38 (larva and pupa). Elwes and Edwards (part). 

 Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 141. Evans, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xx. 1910, p. 388. 

 Friihstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 76. 



Tagiades athos, Plotz, Jahrb. Nass. Yer. xxxvii. p. 48 (1884) (unpublished plate No. 1578, ^ ). 



Tagiades distans, Fergusson (nee Moore), Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 448. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside blackisli-l)rown. Forewing with three sub-apical dots. 

 Hindwing with the anal margin whitish touched with blue, and with a narrow suffused 

 marginal border, the cilia here white, brown on the rest of the wiug and on the fore- 

 wing, a very indistinct darker spot at the end of the cell an equally indistinct discal 

 series. Underside. Forewing paler, somewhat ochreous-brown, the sub-apical dots as 



