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TARAKA HAMADA. 

 Plate 629, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, $ (Wet-season Brood), 2c, ,J , 2d, ? (Dry-season Brood). 

 Miletus hamada, Druce, Cist. Ent. i. p. 361 (1875). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 882. 



de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 76, pi. 1, fig. 16, ? . Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. 



Bengal, 1886, p. 132. Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 409. Pryer, Rhop. Niphonica, p. 10, 



pi. 2, fig. 12, ? (1886). 

 Neopithecops hamada, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 374, pi. 11, fig. 2, ? . 

 Taraka hamada, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 58, pi. 26, fig. 164, ? (1890). Watson, Journ. 



Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 44. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 621. Swinhoe, Trans. 



Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 292. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 658. Bingham, Fauna 



of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 312 (1907). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 2, $, 2a, ?, 2b, $). 



Imago. —Male and Female. Upperside rather pale black, very uniform in colour, 

 no markings, but the spots on the underside slightly showing through the wings. 

 Underside white, with black spots and markings. Foreiving with a basal streak and a 

 streak adjoining, followed by an ante-medial transverse band complete to the cell, 

 where it is disjointed and has a disconnected spot on the costa ; a medial band, 

 disjointed in the middle; two spots from the costa; a band of post-discal spots ; 

 a sub-terminal series of small round spots and a row of triangular spots on the outer 

 margin. Hindwing with a basal spot, followed by a band disconnected in its middle, 

 then two short streaks in echelon, with three pairs of spots below them ; a sub- 

 terminal series of round spots decreasing in size hindwards and a marginal black line. 



Expanse of wings, $ % lyL inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. 2c, i, 2d, ?). 



Male. Upperside more transparent, the spots showing through the wing more 

 plainly. Forewing with the basal two-thirds of the wing pale ; a white streaky patch 

 beyond the lower end of the cell. Hindwing also pale ; the spots quite as apparent. 

 Underside as in the other form. 



Female. Much paler than the male. Forewing mostly pure white, leaving a broad 

 costal and outer brown border. Hindwing pale brown ; costal and outer portions 

 darker brown. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, J ? 1 inch. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Malayana. 



Distribution. — Watson records it from the Chin Hills, Elwes from the Naga and 

 Karen Hills, de Niceville from Cachar, Chittagong, Tenasserim, E. Java, China ; and in 

 our collection from the Khasia HiUs, Sikkim and Yokohama ; some of the Japanese 

 examples are very small ; it is in the B. M. also from the Shan States, Moupin, 

 Shanghai, Foochow, and Chusan. 



