CEL^NOIlRniNJE 51 



TAGIADES TABRICA. 



Plate 770, figs. 3, i , 3a, ^ . 



PteryriospuJea iahrica, Hewitson, Ex. Butt. v. Ptcri/fjospiilea, pi. i. fig. 8 (1873). 



Tagiades Iahrica, Pliitz, Jahrb. Nass. Ver. xxxvii. p. 53 (1884). Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 54. 



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. 146. 

 Celxnorrhinus iahrica, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1889, p. 187. Watson, Hesp. Ind. 



p. 143 (1891). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Foreuv'.iuj as in T. pinrvilli, ])ut there is an extra thin 

 white streak immediately above the oval spot at the base of the second median inter- 

 space, and there are five sub-apical dots in a recurved series from near the costa. 

 Hindwwg with a black marginal band from the base to the anal angle, the costal and 

 apical portions broadest, its inner margin from vein 4 to the anal angle dentated, the 

 inner part of the wing bright ochreous-yellow, a black spot at the end of the cell, and a 

 discal series of elongated oval, black spots, the two upper ones on the edge of the black 

 border, the others well inside the ochreous-yellow portion. Cilia of both wings 

 blackish. Underside like the upperside, but the sub-apical series of dots on the 

 fore wing is continued down the wing sub-marginally to near the hinder angle, and the 

 costal and apical portions of the black band on the hiudwing are somewhat narrow, 

 leaving the black upper spots more exposed. Antennse with a white stripe on the 

 underside of the club ; palpi, body beneath and legs ochreous ; head and body above 

 blackish ; top of head edged with white, abdomen with yellow segmental bands. 



Expanse of wings, $ 2-fQ inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; the type in the B. M. is unique. 



TAGIADES PTERIA. 



Plate 770, figs. 4, (^ , 4a, $. 



Pterygospidea pteria, Hewitson, Descr. Hesp. p. 51 (1868) ; id. Ex. Butt. v. Ptcrygospidea, pi. i. 



fig. 1 (1873). 

 Tagiadcs pteria. Semper, Rhop. Philipp. p. 308 (1802). Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, 



p. 142. Fruh.storfer, Iris, 1910, p. 83. 

 Tagiadcs dcalhata, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 388, pi. 35, fig. 21 (1886). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1892, p. 655. de Niceville and Martin, .Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 532. Watson, Journ. 



Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 422. Elwes and Edwards, I.e. p. 145. 

 Tagiadcs pdcria dcalhata, Friihstorfer, I.e. 

 Tagiadcs pteria dimidiata, Friihstorfer, I.e. 



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

 two white dots within the cell towards its end, one above the other, the lower one 

 sometimes absent ; six or seven similar dots on the outer portion of the wing, four of 



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