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about niidclle of the marn-iu ; subcostal simibirly bent upward and thus milking 

 the base of the cell broad ; discocellulars oblique and long, upper shortest and 

 straight, lower slightly concave; subcostal brauch emitted at some considerable 

 distance beyond the cell ; middle Tiiedian branch at a short distance before lower end 

 of the cell, lower median at fully lialf distance and opposite base of upper disco- 

 cellular. i?ot/y robust ; thorax stout; head broad, witli a compact tr.incated tuft ; 

 eyes naked ; antennas moderately long and slender, club well-formed, tip pointed ; 

 palpi very short, slender, first and second joints finely and smoothly scaled at the 

 sides and laxly scaled beneath, third joint minute ; forelegs of male small, very densely 

 clothed with fine soft hairs ; forelegs of fenmle longer, slender, scaly, tarsus well 

 articulated, armed beneath with lateral spines, terminal joint small, oval, armed at 

 the tip with two regularly-formed much curved acute claws, paronychia and 

 pulvillus. 



TvrE. — T. Haquinus {Drupadi, Horsf.). 



TAXILA FASCIATA (Plate -lOi., fi-s. 1, la, cf,lb, c, ? ). 



Taxila fasciata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 832, pi. 52, fig. 1, ^. de Niceville, Butt, of 

 India, etc., ii. p. 318 (1836). Grose-Smith, Rhop. Exot. Dir. pi. (ig.s. G, 7, ? (1901). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Dark rich ochreous-brown. Forciriiig with the 

 apical area very slightly suffused with ochreous-red and traversed by an oblique 

 subapical short obscure greyish fascia. Uunderside bright red. Forewiiig with 

 the base of costa to below the subcostal, and also the posterior border, pale ochreous ; 

 a well-defined bluish-grey oblique bar within the cell, an angled bar beyond the cell, 

 a short streak above the latter and broken by the subcostal, a short streak in the 

 base of upper and lower median interspace, and a less-defined inner spot iu base of 

 the submedian interspace, followed by an outer-discal transverse series of small 

 spots, the lower four of which are dentate, the upper ones — disposed obliquely- 

 inward to the costa — are larger, broader, confluent, and violet-white, these latter thus 

 forming a short subapical oblique macular fascia ; beyond is a submarginal slender 

 interrupted line, becoming obsolescent apically ; the cell and discal marks are each 

 black-bordered, the outer-discal series being black-bordered only on their inner edge, 

 and the submarginal line on its outer edge. Hiiulwing with a pale ochreous 

 subbasal streak ; a black-bordered bluish-grey bar across middle of the cell, a 

 medial-discal irregular series of similar bars, and a less prominent outer-discal row 

 of paler dentate marks with a contiguous inner series of blackish dentate marks ; 

 followed by a prominent submarginal whitish interrupted line edged outwardly by a 

 black line. 



Female. Upperside dusky ochreous-red. Foreicing with a more or less ill-defined 



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