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Genus TAGIADES. 



Tagiades, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 108 (1816). 

 Pterygospidea, Wallengren, Rhop. Caffr. p. 53 (1857). 



Forewing triangular ; apex pointed ; exterior margin oblique, very slightly 

 convex, even ;, first, second, and third subcostals at equal distances, first at one-third 

 before end of the cell ; discocellulars recurved inwardly, upper radial from angle 

 near subcostal, lower from their middle ; cell narrow, extending two-thirds the wing ; 

 middle median at one-sixth, lower at four-sixths before end of the cell, lower much 

 curved at base within the cell ; submedian slightly recurved : hindwing short, broadly 

 produced hindward, exterior margin slightly scalloped towards anal angle ; second 

 subcostal at nearly one-third before end of the cell ; discocellulars of equal length, 

 nearly erect, radial from their middle ; cell broad ; middle median close to end and 

 lower beyond one-third before end of the cell ; submedian straight, internal recurved. 

 Body short, thorax stout; palpi very compactly flattened laterally, terminal joint 

 short, pointed ; legs almost naked ; antennse slender, the club and lengthened tip 

 very slender. 



Type, T. Japetus. 



TAGIADES ATTICUS (Plate 68, Fig. 2). 



Hesperia Atticus, Fabricius, Eat. Syst. iii. i. p. 339 (1793). 

 Tagiades Atticus, Butler, Catal. Fabrieian Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 283. 



Upperside dark vinous-brown : forewing with seven minute semi-transparent 

 white spots recurving before the apex, two within end of the cell and one above its 

 end : hindwing with a large pure white quadrate anal patch bordered before the apex 

 by two rather large black spots, and along exterior margin by four smaller spots ; 

 cilia bordering the patch also white. Underside paler, the white patch extending to 

 base of hindwing. Palpi, legs, and body beneath greyish- white. 



Expanse, c? 1^, ? If inch. 



"Central Province. Hills, 3000 to 6000 feet; in open places, roadsides, &c. 

 Not very common. Plight slow " {Hutchison). 

 "Kandy" (Fa^Ze). 

 " Eather scarce. From 3000 feet upward " (Machwood). 



TAGIADES DISTANS (Plate 68, Fig. 1, la). 

 Male and female. Upperside vinous-brown, discal areas suffused with greyish- 

 brown : forewing with three minute semi-transparent white spots before the apex, 

 two nearly obsolete below them, and two slightly larger spots on the disc, each 

 bordered with black ; a slight black spot below the cell near the base : hindwing 

 with a greyish-white border extending from above anal angle to two-thirds the 



