590 



HESPERIID^. 



Taractrocera flavoides, sp. nov. (Plate XL. figs. 10 5, ii ^ .) 



Male. Primaries pale fulvous, shaded with blackish on basal area ; below the outer extremity of 

 discoidal cell there is a large black spot, which is connected by a black streak with a large 

 curved black spot on costal area ; outer margin broadly bordered with black, the inner edge 

 with a quadrate indentation towards apex. Secondaries black, with a pale fulvous subbasal 

 spot and a broad central maculated band of the same colour extending from costal to submediau 

 nervure, the second spot is more or less quadrate in sbape, and is placed out of lino with the 

 others forming the band. Fringes pale fulvous. Under surface : primaries blackish, 

 suffused with yellowish on apical area, and narrowly along outer margin ; the costa is pale 

 fulvous from base to beyond the middle, where it unites with a patch of the same colour in 

 discoidal cell ; beyond is a pale fulvous macular band, the second spot placed out of line with 

 the rest : secondaries blackish suffused with yellowish except in abdominal fold ; there are 

 two transverse yellow bands ; the edges of both are dentate and marked with black. Fringes 

 yellow. In the female the yellow markings are narrower. 



Expanse 28 millim. 



In general appearance this species, which so far has only occurred at 

 Chovv-pin-sa and Omei-shan, is very like Padraona flava, for which it might 

 easily be overlooked. The antennte, however are not hooked at the tip, 

 but have spoon-shaped clubs. Its nearest ally appears to be T. nigrolhii- 

 hatus, Snellen *, from Batavia. 



Genus ADOP.EA. 



Adopeea, Billb. Eimni. Ins. p. 81 (1820) ; Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 98. 



Type, f/tai/mns, Ilufn. 

 Pelion, Kirby, List Brit. Ehop. (1858). Type, thaumas, Hufii. 



" Antennae short, less than half the length of costa ; club elongate, straight or slightly arcuate, 

 tip blunt. Palpi: second joint clothed with laxly-set scales; third joint long, slender, 

 suberect. Fore wing : inner margin longer than outer margin ; cell less than two thirds the 

 length of costa ; middle discocellular more than twice as long as lower ; vein 5 from close 

 to bottom of cell ; vein .'J close to end of cell ; vein 2 (in both sexes) slightly nearer to base of 

 wing than to end of cell. Hind wing : outer margin even, slightly excised at vein 2 ; vein 7 

 well before end of cell, only slightly nearer to 6 than to 8 ; discocellulars very faint, vein o 

 not traceable ; vein .'5 iinnicdiatoly before end of coll ; vein 2 more than twice as far from 

 base of wing as from end of cell. Hind l ibix with two pairs of sjmrs. Abdomen slondor, 

 extending beyond anal angle of hind wings. 



" Male with a linear discal stigma on tho fore wing, in two portions — the upper portion long, 

 lying bolow the inner margin of coll, from the origin of vein '.i to as far as vein 2; tho lower 

 j)ortion short , in conlinuation of the upper portion, from below vein 2 to not quite us far as 

 vein 1. 



" DIsfrlbuf/on. ilolarctic." {ll alfioii, I. c.) 



* Tijds. V. Entom. xix. p. 1<»"), pi. vii. fig. (187G). 



