236 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



SPALGIS NUBILUS. 



Plate 629, figs. 1, ^, la, ?, lb, <J . 



Spdlgis nuhilus, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. 1883, p. 522. Distant and Pryer, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 1887, p. 266. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 56 (1890). Watson, Jom-n. Bo. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. 1897, p. 658. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. u. p. 311 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside darker than in Epius, nearly pure black ; a black spot 

 at the end of the cell, hardly visible, no other markings. Underside darker, with a 

 silky lustre, markings as in Epius. 



Female, like that sex of epius, but the pale spaces on both wiugs much restricted. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1 inch. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Andamans, Nicobars. 



DiSTRiBUTioif. — It is in the B. M. from Ceylon, and in our collection from Port 

 Blair ; de Niceville records it from Borneo ; the type in the B. ]\I. is from the Andamans. 



INDO-MALAYAN AND CHINESE ALLIED SPECIES. 



Spalgis suhstrigata, Lucia (?) substrigata, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. xxi. p. 15 (1878). Habitat, 



Celebes. 



Sjialgis dllama, Lucia dilama, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 701. Habitat, Hainan. 

 S^ialgis f angola, Lucia fangola, Kheil, Rhop. Nias, p. 28, pi. 5, fig. 31. Habitat, Nias. 



Genus TARAKA. 



Taralca, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 57 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. 

 p. 312 (1907). 



Eyes naked ; antennse much as in Pithecops, slender, with a short, distinct 

 terminal club ; palpi sub-porrect, third joint sub-fusiform, about half the length of the 

 second ; body slender ; legs short, stout, covered with very long hairs, tibiae swollen in 

 the middle ; tarsi as long as the tibiae. Furewing, costa rounded, apex rather acute, 

 outer margin convex, hinder margin concave ; cell not half the length of the wing, 

 discocellulars slender, upper very short, lower the longest ; vein 8 absent, 9 from middle 

 of 7 ; 10 and 11 free, from apical half of sub-costal; 12 short, terminating on costa 

 before end of cell. Hindwing long and narrow, costa long, outer margin rounded, 

 composed of two curves meeting at the end of the second sub-costal nervule ; cell less 

 than half the length of the wing, vein 3 from a little before lower end of the cell, 7 

 from a little before the upper end, 8 long, strongly curved upwards at base, then nearly 

 straight to the apex of the wing. 



Type, T. hamada, Druce. 



Dr. Chapman says its genitalia is not near anything else he has yet examined. 



