48 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 6. Adamson, Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 1908, p. 139. 



Friihsturfer, Iris, 1910, p. 77. 

 Tagiades vultuma, Plotz, JahrL. Nass. Yer. xxxvii. p. 47 (1884) (unpubli.shed plate No. 1093). 

 Tagiades aiticns, Leech (nee Fabricius), Butt, of China, etc. ii. pi. 38, fig. 13 (1894). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Foreiving black, with a vinous tiut ; five small semi- 

 hyaline white spots from near the costa before the apex, the third a little outwards, 

 with the fourth and fifth in a strong outward curve, and another towards the base of 

 the second median interspace, a spot in the upper part of the cell near its end with a 

 .sub-costal spot above it ; the cell and basal third of the interno-median interspace 

 darker than the ground colour of the wing, a lilackish spot at the base of the first 

 median interspace and a discal series, all a little darker than the ground colour and very 

 indistinct. Hindwing with the ba.sal third blackish, this colour running round the apex to 

 the middle of the outer margin, the remainder of the wing pure white, two black spots im- 

 bedded in the outer margin of the blackish basal space, and two imbedded in the inner 

 margin of the blackish apical band, four large black marginal spots below it on the white 

 ground, and within the white area are two blackish spots, one in the second median 

 interspace and the other in the interno-median interspace. Cilia of the white portion 

 pure white, of the rest of the wing and of the forewing black. Underside. Furewing 

 pale blackish, palest on the lower half, the spots as above, and two diffuse whitish spots 

 near the hinder angle one above the other. Hindwing pure white, with l)lue basal 

 suffusion, costa, apex and upper third of outer margin narrowly blackish, the remainder 

 I if the outer margin with lilack spots increasing in size hindwards ; on the inside of the 

 lilackisli band, but well within the white area, is a series of four round black spots and 

 a smaller black spot in the upper part of the cell ])efore its end ; palpi whitish, with 

 black sides, thorax below bluish-white, abdomen beneath and legs white ; head and 

 thrirax above and the basal two-thirds of the abdomen black, the terminal third white. 



Female similar to the male, with the black spots on the hindwing larger. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 14 to 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Kashmir, N.W. Himalayas, Chin Hills, Shan States, Sikkim, Assam. 



DiSTRiBUTiox. — The types are said to have come from N.E. Bengal ; we have it 

 from Kulu, Simla, Sikkim, and the Khasia Hills; Manders records it from the Shan 

 States, Watson from the Chin Hills, Moore from Kashmir and Kangra. 



TAGIADES LITIGIOSA. 



Plate 770, figs. 1, (J , la, ^ i l''j i^ > l^i larva and pupa. 



TiKjiades lUiglosa, Moschler, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien. xlviii. p. 230 (1878). 

 Tagiades menaka litigiosa, Friihstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 78. 



Ta.jiadcs atticus, Butler (nee Fabricius), Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 283 (1869); id. Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 1870, p. 96. Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 175, pi. 68, fig. 2 (1881). Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. 



