TAGOEA. 



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3 . Head black ; basal joint of antennas with a tuft of pale hair ; 

 thorax, abdomen, and wings pale reddish ochreous. Pore wing 

 usually with a hyaline spot at end of cell; two rufous oblique lines 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; eight or nine indistinct 

 dark wared lines ; a double highly curved rufous postmedial line 

 from the costa near apex to outer angle ; a submarginal highly 

 waved irregular indistinct dark line. Hind wing with a rufous 



Fig. 30. — Tagora patula, 3 . \. 



subbasal line, obsolete except towards inner margin ; about four 

 very indistinct waved lines ; the rufous postmedial line indistinct ; 

 an irregularly placed series of submarginal spots. 



One specimen in Mus. Oxon. has vein 7 of the fore wing given 

 off from 6 instead of 8. 



2 . Suffused with fuscous ; the apex of fore wing produced ; 

 the outer area of both wings suffused with grey ; the oblique line 

 of both wings single and prominent ; the waved lines more 

 distinct ; two hyaline spots at end of cell of fore wing ; the rufous 

 postmedial line more distinct ; a waved submarginal grey line to 

 both wings. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Assam ; Momeit, Burma. Eosp., S 100, $ 130 

 millim. 



Sect. II. Tore wing with apex slightly produced in female. 



55. Tagora pallida, Wlk. Cat. iv, p. 912 ; Butl. III. Set. v, pi. 98, 

 fig. 3 ; C. 8f S. no. 1362. 

 Sphingognatha asclepiades, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 94, fig. 1. 



S . Differs from patula in the head being dark red-brown ; the 

 tuft on basal joint of antennae dark. Fore wing without the 

 hyaline spot ; the two medial waved lines are distant at costa and 

 inner margin and nearly meet at middle ; the double postmedial 

 lines of both wings are dark, narrow, nearer together and less 

 curved. 



