52 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



them sub-apical, oue near the costa, another below it, the third and fourth outwardly 

 highly oblique, in a line with the second, a dot in the second median interspace before 

 its middle, another obliquely below it in the middle of the first median interspace, and 

 sometimes a dot above it. Hindicing with the anal third of the wing white, limited by 

 a series of elongated, indistinct, black discal spots, the lower end of some of them 

 protruding into the white patch. Cilia of forewiug black, cilia of the black portion of 

 the hindwing black, of the white portion white. Underside with the ground colour a 

 little paler than it is above, and more brown. Forewing as on the upperside, with the 

 addition of two diffuse whitish spots near the hinder angle, one above the other ; hinder 

 marginal space narrowly pale. Hindwing with the lower half white, the white colour 

 running into the black portion in two places for a short distance, exposing two short 

 bands of blackish conjoined spots in the middle of the wing and in the disc, and some 

 indistinct blackish spots above them ; the white area is covered by a series of small 

 brown spots, but these vary much in different examples, and sometimes these are only 

 very slightly indicated. Antenn?e black, upper half of the club orange ; palpi, head, 

 body above and below blackish ; legs black above, ochreous-grey beneath. 



Female unknown. 



Expanse of wings, $ l-^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Philippines, Perak, Sumatra, Borneo, Burma, Assam. 



Distribution. — The type is from the Philippines. Friihstorfer records it from 

 Sumatra ; we have it from Brunei, Borneo ; Elwes records it from Burma, the Karen 

 Hills, and IMargharita in Upper Assam ; Distant's type came from Perak, it is not 

 separable from Hewitson's type. It is a rare species, but we have been fortunate 

 enough to be able to examine several specimens from diflerent localities ; it is a widely 

 spread and somewhat variable species. 



TAGIADES TRICHONEURA. 

 Plate 771, figs. 1, $, la, ?, lb, $. 



Ptcrygosjndea tridoncvra, Felder, Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 402 (1860) ; id. Reise, Nov. Lep. iii. pi. 73, 



figs. 14, 1.5 (1867). 

 Tagiades trichoneiira, Watson, Hesp. Tnrl. p. 97 (1891). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 6.5.5. 



Watson, id. 189.3, p. 54 ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 422. Elwes and Edwards, 



Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 145. Fiuhstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 85. 

 Tagiades trichoneura, var. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 389, pi. 34, fig. 20 (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark brown. Foi-ewing with thirteen (sometimes 

 fourteen) small white semi-hyaline spots on the outer half of the wing, two near the 

 costa at its middle, an elongated spot below them inside the cell near its upper end, a 

 small round spot at its extreme lower end, an obliquely elongated spot outside near the 



