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base of the second median interspace, a similar spot below it a little inwards in the first 

 median interspace, and two dots below this in the interuo-median interspace, one al)ove 

 the other ; a sub-apical series of five dots in an outwardly oblique form, all the 

 veins of the wing greyish. Ilindwing with the anal third ochreous-yellow, with 

 ochreous cilia (the rest of the cilia is brown), the ochreous cilia continued for a short 

 distance up both outer and abdominal margins ; a blackish spot at the cud of the cell, 

 a discal series of elongated blackish spots, with their outer ends protruding into the 

 ochreous area, black outer marginal spots on the brown area. Underside. Forewinij pale 

 blackish, spots as above, with two additional larger diffuse spots near the hinder angle, 

 a pale streak through the cell, another through the interno-median interspace, the 

 hinder marginal space narrowly pale. Hindwing pale ochreous-yellow, with dark 

 bluish-grey basal suft'usiou, the costa narrowly, the apex broadly blackish, with very 

 irregular inner margin containing three black spots, and a black spot in the cell, near 

 its upper end. Antennse with the underside of the club white ; palpi and pectus 

 ochreous, witli black spots ; body below and the legs dull ochreous ; head and body above 

 blackish-brown. 



Female similar to the male, but paler. Forcicmg with the two middle oblique 

 elongated spots longer ; the elongated spots of the discal series also longer, the yellow 

 anal space much paler. Underside altogether paler, the marking similar, the colour of 

 the hindwing very pale, almost whitish. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? IjV to l^-g inches. 



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



Distribution. — The type came from Malacca ; within our limits Watson records 

 it from Beeling, Upper Tenasserim, Rangoon, Tavoy, and the Karen Hills ; our 

 descriptions and figures are from a pair in the B. ]\r. from Beeling taken by Bingham. 



TAGIADES PRALAYA. 

 Plate 771, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ?, 2b, <J. 



Pterygospidea pralaija, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 779. 



Tayiades pralnya, Butler, Eat. Mo. Mag. 1870, p. 96. Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 842. 



Elwes and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 439. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 



Soc. 1888, p. 27; id. Hasp. Ind. p. 97 (1891); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. .54. Swinhoe, 



Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 318. de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkiiu, Butt. p. 178 (1S94). 



Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 422. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 



1897, p. 145. Adamson, Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 1908, p. 140. 

 Tagiades trichoneura pralaya, Friihstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. So. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside vinous-brown. Foreioing with greyish veins, all the 

 white spots exactly as in T. trichoneura. Hindwing only difiering from that of 



