9-i ME. E. T. WAISU> 0>- THE HESPEfillD.E. [Jan. l7, 



h', Male with a discal stigma on fore wiug. 



a'^. Fore wing apically produced, apex slightly truncate; 

 discal stigma of male faint. 



TuK.vciijES, Hbn. Type, jjfiidoii, Cram. (54) 

 //'. Fore wing not produced apically, outer margin evenly 

 conrex ; discal stigma of male couspicuous. 



Tai,ii»es, Hbn. Type, scrgesfus. Cram, {bb) 

 6'. Vein 3 of fore wing well before end of cell, less than twice as 

 far from '1 as from 4. 

 a'. Male with a discal stigma on fore wing. 



PEiacji.i.uKS, Sc. Type, ajrjjihjn, Fabr. (56) 

 If'. No discal .stigma on fore wing of male. 

 a!'. Vein 5 of hind wing wanting. 



a". Vein 2 of fore wijig ahnost equidistant from end of cell 

 and base of wing. 



U>KA.\A, Dist. Type, hatara, Dist. (57) 

 h' . Vein 2 of fore wing almost equidistant from vein 3 and 



base of wing. Hidaki. Dist. Type, irava, Moore. (b8) 

 h^. Vein 5 of liind wing well developed. 



Pteuoteisox, g. n. Type, laufella, Hew. (59) 



1. Genus Taractrocera. (Plate III. fig. 20.) 



Taractrocera, Butler, Cat. Lep. Fabr. p. 279 (1869). 



Type, mcevius, Fabr. 



Antennae short ; club forming a flattened disk, conspicuously 

 hollowed out, tip blunt. Palpi : second joint densely scaled ; third 

 joint long, slender, erect, reaching above the vertex, tip acuminate. 

 Fore wing : inner margin longer than outer margin ; cell less than 

 two-thirds the length of costa ; vein 12 reaching costa well Ijefore 

 the end of cell ; middle discocellular considerably longer than 

 lower one ; vein .5 close to bottom of cell ; vein 3 well before end of 

 cell, about twice as far from 2 as from 4 ; vein 2 slightly nearer to 

 end of cell than to base of wing. Hind wing : outer margin even ; 

 vein 7 very close to end of cell; discocellulars faint; vein .') not 

 traceable ; vein 3 immediately before end of cell ; vein 2 twice as far 

 from base of wings as from end of cell. Hind tibiae with two pairs 

 of spurs. 



The only species of those mentioned below in which there is a 

 i^tigma in the male is papijria, Boisd., in which there is an ex- 

 ceptionally long, slightly oblique stigma on the fore wing, extending 

 from vein 5 as far as vein 1, meeting the latter considerably nearer 

 the margin than the base of wing. 



f »«<Kii«s, Fabr 1. i flavovittafa, Latv 5. 



i flaccus, Fabr. I ]}ap>/rio, Boisd. 6. 



[ Sff^ara, Moore. ' ni</rolimbah'i:, Snell 7. 



celano. Cox 2. I *nicevi(Iei, sp. n 8. 



*ardonia, Hew 3. ! *':eramas, Hew 9. 



*daniio, Moore 4. 



And seven unidentified species. The " Pamphila" avonti of de 

 Niceville also probably belongs to this genus. 



This is a genus of very numerous species, which ranges from India 

 through the Malay Archipelago to Australia, appearing to reach 



