50 LEPIDOPTERA INBICA. 



months, without eating, prior to pupating ; this happens generally in the cold weather. 

 We have bred many at all seasons. (Extracts from Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, 

 p. 373, and ix. 1897, p. 38.) 



Habitat. — India, Ceylon, Burma, Hongkong, Hainan. 



A common species ; we cannot separate the southern form named vajuna by 

 Friihstorfer from the northern examples. We have many examples from the Ataran 

 Valley, Ceylon, Orissa, Kanara, Sikkim, the Kliasia Hills, and from many other 

 localities ; Hannyngton records it also from Kumaon, Watson from the Chin Hills, 

 and de Rhe-Philipe from JMasuri. The tyjae came from Sylhet. 



TAGIADES PINWILLI. 

 Plate 770, figs. 2, $ , 2a, ^ . 



Plesioneura pintoilli, Butler, Trans. Linn. .Soc. Zool. 1877, p. 556, pi. 68, fig. 4, ^ . Distant, Rhop. 



Malayana, p. 400, pi. 35, fig. 29, ^ (1886). 

 Gehitta iiinioUU, Doherty, Joui-n. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 131. 

 Cdseiwrrhimis pimoilli, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1889, p. 187. Watson, Hesp. Ind. 



p. 144 (1891). 

 Tagiades pinieiUi, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 54; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, 



p. 422. de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 532. Elwes and Edwards, 



Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 145. de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xii. 1899, p. 336. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside very dark blackish-brown, nearly pure black. Forewing 

 with a semi-hyaline, almost round, white spot filling the end of the cell, a long oval 

 spot a little outwardly below it, in the middle of the first median interspace, a small 

 round spot below its middle, with a still smaller spot below it, well inwards, a narrow 

 oval spot at the base of the second median interspace, its inner edge between the outer 

 ends of the two large spots. liindwing bright ochreous-orange, a black spot at the end 

 of the cell, a broad marginal black band with irregular inner margin all round the wing 

 from the base to the anal ausfle, narrowing somewhat at the middle of the costa and 

 towards the anal angle, its inner margin containing a series of large black spots, the 

 last spot being well inside the orange colour, in the interno-median interspace. Cilia 

 of both wings black. Underside like the upperside. Antennae ochreous beneath ; 

 palpi, body beneath and the legs orange, above the body is blackish, the abdomen with 

 ochreous segmental bands. 



Expanse of wings, $ 2^ inches. 



Habitat. — Malay Peninsula, Malacca, Assam, Burma. 



Distribution. — The type came from the Malay Peninsula ; de Niceville records 

 it from Toungoo, Donat Range, and the Ataran Valley, Tenasserim ; our descriptions 

 and figures are from the type in the B. M. ; Doherty records it from Margharita, Upper 

 As.sam. The female is unknown. 



