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Distribution. — Recorded by Watson from Chin Lushai, by Manders from the 

 Shan States, by Elwes from E. Pegu ; it is in the B. M. from Burma, Malacca, Borneo 

 and Sumatra ; in our collection from the Sal ween Valley, Burma and Sarawak ; and 

 there are several examples of the Dry-season brood in the B. M. from Tilin Yaw and 

 the Karen Hills. 



ALLOTINUS TARAS. 



Plate 617, figs. 2, (J , 2a, ? , 2b, <J , 2c, 9 . 



Allotirms taras, Doherty, Journ. As. Soo. Bengal, 1889, p. 437, pi. 23, fig. 10, ^ . Elwes, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 619. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 300 (1907). 

 Paragerydus taras, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 27 (1890). 



Imago. — Male. Forewing longer and more acute than in IiorsjielJ i , outer margin 

 slightly curved. Upperside, both wings dark brown, the colour slightly darker at the 

 apex of the forewing. Underside creamy- white, sparsely covered with brown strigaj 

 unevenly distributed, a transverse macular discal band, composed of slender crescent- 

 shaped markings, beyond which is a sub-marginal line of blackish dots. Forewing 

 tinged with brown at the apex, the sub-apical dots within the brown area edged 

 outwardly with white. Ilindwing with a brownish marginal line. 



Female. Paler than the male, otherwise it is similarly coloured and marked. 



Expanse, ^ ? ly^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Tenasserim and Chittagono;. 



INDO-MALATAN ALLIED SPECIES. 



Allotirms fallax, Felder, Raise, Nov. Lep. ii. p. 284, pi. 3.5, figs. 24, 25, 26 (1865). Habitat, 



Philippines. 

 Allotinus major, Felder, I.e. p. 286, pi. 35, figs. 29, 30, 31 (1865). Synonyms, AUotinus albatus, 



Felder, I.e. p. 287. Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. 1878, p. 15. Allotinus albatus, var. maximus, 



Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. 1888, p. 269. Habitat, Celebes. 

 Allotinus unicohr, Felder, I.e. p. 369. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 209 (1884). Habitat, Malay 



Peninsula. 

 Allotinus apus, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1895 (vol. x.), p. 17, pi. S, fig. 17, J. 



Habitat, N.E. Sumatra. 

 Allotinus audax, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 564, pi. 31, figs. 11, ^,12, ?. Habitat, 



Kina Balu, Borneo. 

 Allotinus aphocha, Kheil, Rhop. Nias, p. 28, pi. 5, fig. 30 (1884). Paragervdus aphocha, H. H. 



Druce, I.e. p. 563. Habitat, Nias, Borneo. 

 Allotinus fabius, Paragerydus fabius. Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1887, p. 266. Synonym, 



Allotinus caudatus, Grose-Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1893, p. 34. Habitat, Borneo, 



Celebes. 



