PAMPniLINJS. 1 1 7 



two ill the middle of the disc, and two close to the outer mai'n'iu Ijclmv the apex. 

 Ilindwing with two pairs of spots in the disc, one pair in the middle and the other near 

 the apex. Cilia of both win!j,s pale brown. Underside. Fortncuuj blackish-brown, the 

 spots as above, but paler and duller in colour, and there is a dull orange streak between 

 the costa and sub costal vein. Ilindwinij paler, markings as above, but with an 

 additional spot at the end of the cell, and the entire wing more or less covered with 

 minute orange scales. Autennse black, the lower half of the clul) white at the sides, 

 the shaft with white dots ; palpi, head and body coucolorous with the wings ; palpi 

 grey beneath, the abdomen with obscure grey bands on the underside. 



Female like the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? f'g- to 1 inch. 



Habitat. — South India. 



DiSTRiBCTiON — The type is marked Nilgiris ; we have both sexes from (Jotacamund ; 

 Evans records it from the Palui Hills, Aitken from Egutpuri, Elwes from Travaucore 

 and Malabar. 



TARACTRCCERA NICEVILLEI. 



Plate 784, ligs. 3, ^ , 3a, 9 , 3b, i . 



Taractrocera nicevillei, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1S93, p. 95 ; id. Journ. Bo. Xat. Hist. Soc. ix. 



1895, p. 429. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 184, pi. 21, fig. 12, (J. Aitken 



and Comber, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xv. 1903, p. 52. Adamson, Trans. N. H. Soc. 



Ncrthumberland, etc. 1908, p. 142. 

 Ampittia coras, Swinhoe (nee Cramer), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 146. Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 



Soc. 1887, p. 43. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 01 (1891). 

 Taractrocera cerainas, Davidson, Bell and Aitken (nee Hewitson), .Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. 



1897, p. 52 (larva and pupa). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside rufous-brown with rather large, more or less quailrate, 

 orange spots. Forewing with an elongate spot at the end of the cell divided into two 

 by the fold and a short adjoining streak above it, a spot near the costa before the apex 

 divided into three by the veins, a spot outside, its upper inner end often touching the 

 lower outer end of the other spot, two spots in the middle of the disc, with two or 

 three spots below it decreasing in size, all joined together into a discal band. li'unhriihj 

 with a lunulate spot at the end of the cell, often indistinct, and three di.scal spots, the 

 middle one outside the others, and the largest, the upper one small, the lower one 

 generally divided into two by the second median nervule. Cilia of both wings grey, 

 with a darker inner band. Underside as above. Forewing with the costa narrowdy 

 sutfused with orange, and a marginal row of obscure orange spots from the apex to the 

 end of the first median nervule. Jlindicing with the discal spots larger than on the 

 upperside and consequently all more or less conjoined, and an additional spot at the 



