BUTTERFLIES 



FROM 



CHINA, JAPAN, AND COREA. 



PART II. 



Pam. LYC^NID^. 



Genus TARAKA. 



Taraka (Doherty, MS.), de Niceville, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 57 (1890). 



" Wings remarkably fragile and thin. 



" Fore wing : costa regularly rounded, apes rather acute, outer margin convex, inner margin 

 concave ; costal nervure not touching the first siibcostal nervule, a little swollen at the 

 base ; first subcostal nervule originates two fifths before the end of the discoidal cell ; 

 second subcostal arising twice the distance from the base of the first as from the base of 

 the upper discoidal ; third subcostal arises midway between the apex of the cell and of 

 the wing ; discocellular nervules slightly produced outwardly, lower discocellular longer 

 than the middle one and very slender, meeting the median nervule just beyond its last 

 forking. 



" Hind wing long and narrow ; costa long, outer margin rounded, composed of two curves 

 meeting at the end of the second subcostal nervule, inner margin convex for most of its 

 length ; costal nervure long, extending to the apex, running close to the margin ; discoidal 



