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l»o(ly above concolorous with the wings ; whitish ou the underside, as also are 

 the legs. 



Female similar to the male, but the white streaks ou the upperside of the furewiug 

 are more pronounced. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ l-f^ inches. 



Habitat. — N.W. Himalayas. 



Distribution. — The type is from the Simla Hills ; ]\Ioore also records it from 

 Kunawar and Bhutan, Hannyngtt>u from Kumaon, and de Niceville from Sikkim. 

 Our description and figures are from a male marked Himalayas and a female marked 

 Bhutan, both in the B. M. They exactly resemble Plotz's coloured figures of his 

 Pyrijus sumatrensis from Borneo and Sumatra, unpublished plate No. 905, male and 

 female, a copy of which is in our possession. 



TARACTROCERA SAMADHA. 



Plate 78.5, tigs. 2, J , 2a, ? , 2b, ^J . 



Taractrocera ziclca samadlia, Friihstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 94. 



Taractrocera ziclea, Watson (nee Plotz), .Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 677, pi. A, fig. 8, ^ . 



Swinhoe (i)art), Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 16. 

 Padraona niijrolimbaia, Watson (nee Snellen), Journ. Bo. N"at. Hist. Soc. ,x. 189G, p. 678. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewinij golden-yellow ; the base suffused with 

 blackish ; a broad black l:)and from the middle of the sub-median vein (which is also 

 black), expanding inwards on that vein to the base, runs up outside the end of the cell 

 to the costa, and throws out a broad branch above vein 4 which abruptly turns up to 

 the apex, and joins the upper end of the outer marginal black baud which is excavated 

 opposite the branch, reaches the hinder margin and widens a little at the angle. Ilind- 

 wing black, with a large golden-yellow .spot at the end of the cell, and a l)road golden- 

 yellow discal band, from the suli-median vein (up which it runs a little) to vein 6, 

 where it is narrowest, ending in an attached spot. Cilia of both wings brown, touched 

 with golden-yellow towards the anal angle. Underside similar, but paler. Antennae 

 black, ringed with white, the club white on the underside ; palpi, head and body brown 

 above, the thorax with some dull yellowish hairs, palpi whitish beneath, abdomen with 

 broad, dull golden-yellow bands, the basal portions hidden by brown hairs. 



Female similar to the male, the golden-yellow portions broader and duller in 

 colour. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? i V to 1 inch. 



Habitat. — Burma. 



Distribution. — Recorded by Watson from Burma ; we have both sexes from 

 Thoungyan, the Ataran Valley, Tenasserim and from Hue Aniiam ; in Trans. Ent. Soc. 



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