CEL^NOERHINUS. — TAGIADES. 



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nif^ra ut et nervi ; posticarum alba. Collare, palpi aurantiaco colore. Pagina inferior 

 pallidior, maculis magis separatis : abdomen album, pedes cinerci. Antcnnte nigraj." 

 {Malnlle, I c.) 



Occurs in Western China at Moupin, AVa-ssu-kow, and Chia-kou-ho ; and 

 in Central China at Chang-yxing and Kiukiang. Pratt says that it flies around 

 high trees. 



Two specimens from Kiukiang diff"er from those from the other localities 

 in being larger and in having the ground-colour darker and the spots 

 smaller. 



1 have followed de Nicoville in referring this species to Cela>norrMmis, but 

 probably a new genus Avill have to be founded for its reception. 



Genus TAGIADES. 



Tagiades, Hubner, Verz. p. 108 (1816) ; Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 53. 



Ty\)e, japetus, Cram. 

 Pterygospidea, Wallengreii, Rhop. CafFr. p. 53 (1857). Type, ^es?/5, Fabr. 



" Antennae : club slender, bent at about a right angle, terminal portion rather long. Palpi 

 porrect, tliird joint minute. Fore wing : inner and outer margins subequal; cell less than 

 two thirds the length of costa ; vein 12 reaching costa well before end of cell; discocellulars 

 suberect, the lower the longer ; vein 3 shortly before end of cell, three times as far from 2 

 as from 4 ; vein 2 almost twice as far from end of cell as from base of wing ; lower margin 

 of cell between origins of veins 2 and 3 strongly arched. Hind wing evenly rounded ; vein 

 7 well before the end of cell, about twice as far from S as from 6 ; discocellulars and vein 5 

 very faint ; vein 3 shortly before end of cell, twice as far from 2 as from 4 ; vein 2 

 considerably nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. Hind tibiae fringed, and with two 

 pairs of spurs. 



" It is quite impracticable to separate Pterygospidea from Tagiades, the only 

 difference being that in ftesas the outer margin of the fore wing is slightly 

 excavated just above the outer angle, which is not the case in japetus ; when, 

 however, one tries to apply this difference to other species it is found to be a 

 vanishing quantity, and quite valueless as a generic character." [Watson, I. c.) 



Tagiades atticus. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 13, d .) 



Hesperia atticus, Fabricins, Ent. Syst. III. i. p. 339 (1793). 

 Tagiades atticus, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 457. 



" H. U. alis rotundatis : anticis fuscis nigro maculatis puuctisque fenestratis, posticis hyalinis 



atro maculatis. 

 " Habitat in India Dom. Lund. 



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