184 MESSES. H. J. ELWES AND JAMES EDWAEDS : 



! Taractrocera danna. 



Pyrgus danna, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. i. p. 249. 

 Pamphila danna, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 508, pi. xxx. fig. 8. 

 Taractrocera danna, Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 63. 



Hab. N.W. Himalaya, 5000-9000 feet {Young); Sikkim (Elwes). 



! Taractrocera ardonia. 

 Ancyloxypha ardonia, Hewitson, Descr. Hesp. p. 45 (1868). 



Hab. Kina Balu, Borneo ( Waterstradt), Pulo Laut (Doherty). 



! Taractrocera ceramas. (Plate XXI. fig. 24, s .) 



Cyclopides ceramas, Hewitson, Descr. Hesp. p. 44 (1868) . 

 Taractrocera ceramas, Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 63. 



Hab. N. Canara (Aithen) ; Travancore, Malabar ; Nilgiris (Minchin). 



! Taractrocera nicevillei. (Plate XXI. fig. 12, 6 .) 

 Taractrocera nicevillei, Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 95. 



The form of the male genitalia is similar in this species and the preceding, and the 

 essential wing-pattern of the two is also similar, the difference in facies being caused 

 by the greater development of the yellow spots in T. nicevillei. We have not, hoAvever, 

 seen any intermediate specimens. 



Hab. Bombay (Swinhoe). 



! Taractrocera ziclea. 



Thymelicus ziclea, Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. xlv. p. 289 (1884). 



Pamphila mcesoides (luzonensis, Mab.), Staudinger, Iris, ii. pp. 145, 165 (1889). 



Ampittia ziclea, Semper, Schmett. Philipp. p. 304. 



Ampittia mcesoides, id. t. c. p. 358. 



Pamphila luzonensis, Mabille, sec. spec. comm. 



This species and the next are interesting as combining the facies of Telicota dara, 

 Koll., with the generic characters of Taractrocera. After examining a male and female 

 of ziclea and a male of mcesoides from Semper, we are satisfied that they represent but 

 one species. There are some small differences of degree in wing-pattern, but having 

 regard to the latitude of similar variation which obtains in insects having a similar 

 facies (e. g. Telicota dara, Koll.) these differences cannot be taken as satisfactorily 

 characterizing a species. 



Hab. Luzon, Mindoro, Samar, Bohol, Cebu, Mindanao (Semper). 



! Taractrocera flavoides. 

 Taractrocera flavoides, Leech, Butt. China, &c. p. 590, pi. xl. fig. 10 $ , 11 $ (1893-94). 



Hab. Omei-shan, Central China (Pratt); Moupin (ex coll. Oberthur). 



