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cell abruptly truncate ; discocellular nervules meeting the subcostal nervure just beyond 

 its bifurcation, and the median nervure opposite its last bifurcation. 



" Eyes naked. 



" Antennce with thirty joints or more, slender, the last ten (approximately) gradually forming 

 a moderate club, abruptly truncate at the tip, the last joint elongate. 



" Palpi : last joint covered with long appressed scales, rather short, less than half as long as the 

 preceding joint, fusiform, pointed, not clavatc. 



" Legs covered willi very long white hairs, the middle and hind femora longer than the tibiije, 

 which are greatly swollen in the middle, the tarsi as long as the tibiic, the first joint nearly 

 twice as long as the otliers united, the last joint with simple claws and paronychia. Fore 

 tarsi of the male slender, equal in length to the tibiie, without spines or articulations, the claws 

 united for most of their length, diverging at the end. i ore tarsi of the female longer than 

 the tibiic, without spines, the claws as in the male, no distinct articulations ; the separation 

 of the last joint is slightly indicated but is quite immovable." {Dohertij, MS., de Niceville, I. c.) 



Taraka hamada. 



Mik'ius humudu, Druce, Cist. Ent. i. p. 361 (1875); Pryer, Rhop. Nihon. y. 10, pi. ii. 

 fig. 12 (1886). 



Taraka hamada, de Niceville, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 58, pi. .\xvi. fig. 10]., $ (1890). 



Miletus hamada, Druce. " Ujjperside male, dark brown, lightest in the middle of the anterior wing. 

 Underside of both wings white, crossed from the costal margin of the anterior to tlie inner 

 margin of the posterior wing by five rows of large black spots, a fine black line round the outer 

 margin of both wings, the fringe alternately black and white. The female differs sliglitly 

 from the male, being paler in colour above, and having all the black spots smaller below. 

 Exp. cJ $ 1 



"//at. Yokohama, Japan." (Druce, I. c.) 



Prycr gives Yokohama and Nikko as Japanese localities for this species, 

 and says that it is confined to isolated spots : " Some specimens are quite 

 black, and otlicrs from the mountains have a patcli of greyish white on the 

 fore wing. It varies from ^- to 1| inch." 



I found tliis species all along the west coast of Japan. It occurs in the 

 neiglibourhood of ponds, and flies among tliick bamboo-grass ; tlie black and 

 white under surface of this species renders it very conspicuous when at rest 

 on the leaves. 



Ill Chiiin T. hamada occurs at Omei-slian, July and August; Moupin, 

 .July; Cliaiig-yang and Icliang. None of tlie specimens exceed an incli in 

 expanse, but in all other respects they are identical with the examples from 

 .lapan. 



According to de NiceviUe, T. hamada is a common species inSikkim at h)w 

 elevations from April to December, " and shows much variation in the extent of 



