PAMPHILTNM 123 



TARACTROCERA ATROPUNCTATA. 



Plate 785, figs. 4, ^ , 4a, ^ . 



Tnradrocera atropnnrtafa, Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. x. 1896, p. 676, pi. A, fig. 9, ^. 



Imago. — Mule. Upperside dark brown, spots on both wings yellow. Forewmij 

 with a spot in the middle of the cell, and a short yellow streak above it, between the 

 sub-costal uervules, two spots in the median interspaces, close together, divided by the 

 second median nervule, three sub-apical conjoined spots, the upper one small, the lower 

 two somewhat elongated, two conjoined spots between the lower end of the sub-apical 

 spots and the outer margin. Hindwlng with a spot in the cell, and a discal series uf 

 three or four indistinct spots, all the spots on both wings small. Cilia of both wings 

 greyish-yellow. Underside. Forewincj dark brown, the costa up to the end of the cell 

 broadly, and the outer margin from the apex to a little below the middle yellow ; the 

 spots as on the upperside. Illadwing yellow, abdominal fold l)rown, sjjots Idack ; a 

 spot in the cell at its base, another above its middle, a larger black spot at the end, 

 extending downwards to near the abdominal fold, divided by the yellow veins into 

 internervular spots ; a suljmargiual series of six spots, the upper two and the fourth 

 and fifth the largest and mure or less elongated ; both wings with a marginal fine 

 black line. 



Female like the male, the spots on the upperside somewhat more prominent. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ l^'o inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Hong-Kong. 



Distribution. — The types in the B. M. are from Kalewa on the Chindwiu River, 

 Burma, and Watson also records it from Hong-Kong. 



Watson says, " The flight weak, settling on grass-stems with the wings closed 

 above the back, and in no way differing in its habits from T. imsvlus or T. ceramas." 



INDO-MALAYAN AND CHINESE ALLIED SPECIES. 



Taractrocera archias, Pamphila arcliias, Felder, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Math. cl. xl. p. 4G2 (1860). 



Synonym, Hesperia daschaka, PlOtz, Berl. ent. Zeit. xxix. p. 227 (1885), unpublished plate 



No. 1458. Habitat, Amboiua, Java. 

 Taractrocera antalcidas, Hesperia antalcidas, Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep. iii. p. 515, pi. 72, fig. 10 (1867). 



Habitat, Celebes. 

 Taractrocera ardonia, Aucyloxypha ardonia, Hewitson, Descr. Hesp. p. 45 (1868). Habitat, Borneo. 

 Taractrocera lineata, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 109, pi. 16, fig. 7. Habitat, Siam. 

 Taractrocera nlijrolitnhata, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. xix. p. 165, pi. 7, fig. 5 (1876). Synonym, 



Hesperia aliena, Plotz, i.e. xliv. p. 228 (1883), unpublished plate No. 700. Taractrocera aliena, 



Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 16, pi. 1, fig. 20. Habitat, Java. 



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