TARAGAMA. 405 



901. Taragama dorsalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1947. 



Taragama castanoptera, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1888, p. 404 ; C. $ S. 



no. 1499 b. 

 Taragama igniflua, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, p. 147, pi. 142, figs. 2,2 a ; 



C. 8c 8. no. 1502. 

 Taragama hyperantheraj, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1883, p. 18 ; C. 8c S. 



no. 1501. 

 Taragama intensa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 18; C. 8c 8. no. 1503. 



c? . Antennae fulvous ; head, collar, and thorax greyish white : 

 tegulse deep red-brown ; abdomen red-brown, each segment 

 fringed with grey. Fore wing deep red-brown ; a white spot at 

 base ; one on costa just beyond the middle forming part of an 

 almost obsolete medial line; a waved postmedial oblique white 



Fig. 280. — Taragama dorsalis, $ . \. 



line, obsolescent at middle ; margins narrowly white. Hind wing 

 deep red-brown, with a large white patch at anal angle ; outer 

 margin narrowly white. 



2 • The pale fringe to abdominal segments broader ; hind wing 

 paler, with the pale patch produced across the wing as an indistinct 

 band. 



The Javan race is very pale in both sexes. 



Hah. N.W. Himalayas ; Calcutta ; throughout S. India and 

 Ceylon ; Philippines ; Borneo ; Java. Exp., J 54, £ 80-102 

 millim. 



902. Taragama siva, Lef. Zool. Joum. in, p. 210. 



Bombyx ganesa, Lef. Zool. Joum. iii, p. 211 ; C. 8r 8. no. 1500 ; 



Moore, Lep. E. I. Co. ii, pi. 22, figs. 4, 4 a (larva). 

 Megasoma pallidum, Wlk. Cat. vi, p. 1450 ; C. 8f 8. no. 1504. 

 Megasoma venustum, Wlk. Cat. vi, p. 1449. 

 Megasoma albicans, Wlk. Cat. vi, p. 1450. 



3 . Differs from dorsalis in the tegulse being ochreous red-brown ; 

 the abdomen white, sometimes slightly tinged with red-brown. 

 Fore wing grey ; a red-brown spot ringed with white at base ; a 

 yellow-brown subbasal patch ; the white medial line distinct and 

 angled inwards below the cell ; a red-brown spot in the cell pro- 

 duced beyond the lower angle as a streak ; a very irregular white 



