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Genus TARACTROCERA, 



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 Taractrocera. 



Tamrtrncera, Butler, Cat. Lep. Fabr. B. M. p. 279 (1869). Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. Ui (1881). 

 Watson, Hasp. Ind. p. 62 (1891); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 94, pi. 3, fig. 20. Leech, Butt, 

 of China, etc. ii. p. 589 (1893). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 189.5, p. 425. Ehves 

 and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 182. 



Foreu-ing, vein 12 reaches costa well before end of cell ; cell less than two-thirds 

 the length of costa ; upper discocellular very short, middle and lower discocellulars erect, 

 the lower a little the shorter, vein 5 curving down slightly at its base which is nearer 

 tlie base of vein 4 than of vein 6, 3 emitted a little before lower end of cell, ^ 



2 a little beyond the middle ; wing short, triangular, costa very slightly 

 arched, outer margin evenly convex, shorter than the hinder margin. 

 Eindiijing, vein 7 emitted a little before upper end of cell, discocellulars bent 

 somewhat inwards, faint, vein 5 not traceable ; 3 from close to lower end 

 of cell, the base of 2 close to the l)ase of 3, being hardly an eighth from 

 the cell end ; costa and outer margin evenly rounded. Antennas short, about half the 

 length of costa of forewiug, cluli short, broad, in the form of a flattened, hollow 

 disk ; palpi upturned, second joint densely scaled, third long, slender, erect and 

 pointed, reaching above tlie vertex ; hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs, fore tibise 

 with epiphysis. 



Type, Ilesperla mserrufi, Fabriciu.s. 



TARACTROCERA M^VIUS. 

 Plate 784, figs. 1, <?, la, ? , lb, ?. 



Hi-nprria msevius, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 352 (1793). Aurivillius, Ent. Tidsk. 1897, p. 151. 



Taractrocera msevius, Butler, Cat. Lep. Fabr. B. M. p. 279, pi. 3, fig. 13 (1869). Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. 

 p. 172, pi. 70, fig. 5 (1881). Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, 

 p. 385, pi. 17, fig. 2, ?. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 455. Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. 

 Bengal, 1888, p. 366. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1888, p. 28; id. Hesp. Ind. p. 62 

 (1891) ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 57. Fergusson, id. p. 447. Betham, id. 1893, 

 p. 427. Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 94. de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 181 

 (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hi.st. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 429. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 183. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. 1897. p. 53. 

 de Rhe-Philipe, id. xi. 1898, p. 598 ; id. idem, xiv. 1902, p. 493. Aitken and Comber, id. xv. 

 1903, p. 52. Adamson, Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 1908, p. 142. Hannyngton, 

 Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xx. 1910, p. 371. 



Titrnrliocera sagara, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 792 ; id. idem, 1882, p. 262. Druce, id. 1883, 

 p. 360. de Nice%-ille, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 54. Doherty, id. 1886, p. 139. Swinhoe, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 434. 



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