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Genus TARAGAMA. 

 Meqasoina* Bnisci. Feisthamel, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, i. p. 340 (1832). 

 Strehlote (part), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 193. 

 Taragama, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. ii. p. 427 (1858-9). 



Male. Forewing elongated, narrow, triangular ; cell long, narrow, extending 

 nearly one-half the wing ; subcostal sis-branched, first branch emitted at one-half, 

 and second immediately before end of the cell, second bifid at half its length, fourth, 

 fifth, and sixth on a footstalk beyond end of the cell ; discocellular concave ; four 

 median branches, first or lower at two-thirds, second at one-third, and third 

 immediately before end of the cell; submedian recurved: hindwing short, triangular, 

 exterior margin convex ; costal vein bent down near the base and thence curved to 

 apes; cell short, triangular ; two subcostal branches, first at two-thirds before end 

 of the cell, joined to costal for a short distance from its base; discocellular very 

 oblique ; four median branches, lower emitted at one-third, and second from 

 immediately before end of the cell, third and fourth on a footstalk beyond end of 

 the cell; a submedian and internal vein. Body long, estending nearly half beyond 

 hindwing, compactly woolly, tufted at tip ; thorax and head conical in front : palpi 

 porrect, first and second joints thick, of equal length, third joint short, conical ; 

 antennee very broadly bipectinated to half the length, the branches graduated thence 

 to tip ; legs short, pilose. Female : forewing longer : hindwing longer and narrower. 

 Body stout ; antennse with short equal branches. 



Type, T. repanda (Megasoma repanda, Feisth. Ann. Soc. France, 1832, p. 340). 



TARAGAMA IGNIFLUA (Plate 142, Fig. 2, 2a, <? ?). 



Dark red. Male : forewing with a postmedial transverse oblique pale ochreous- 

 white waved line, a dentate spot on the costa, and a spot at base of the wing below 

 the cell ; outer border of the wing paler and grey speckled : hindwing with a short 

 broad pale ochreous-white fascia from anal angle. Thoras above, head and palpi 

 brownish greyish-ochreous ; the tegul^ dark red, abdomen dark red, with greyish- 

 ochreous segmental fringe ; autennee and legs red. Female slightly paler : forewing 

 with more prominent postmedial waved pale line, broader costal dentate spot and 

 larger basal spot, the waved line dilated at costal end ; a slight brown-speckled lunule 

 at end of the cell : hindwing also paler, with a well-defined broad entirely transverse 

 pale fascia. Body paler. 



Espanse, ^ 2\, ? 3J inches. In Coll. F. Moore {ex Dr. Thwaites' Coll.). 



Genus METANASTRIA. 



Metanastria, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 186 (1818-25). 



Forewing comparatively shorter, broader, and more triangular than in Taragama ; 



* Previously used in Coleoptera. 



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