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Genus TARAGERYDUS, gen. nov. 



Closely allied to Genjdm, but differing by Laving thv first joint of the tarsi greatly 

 elongated, but not widened and compressed as in Getydtta .* the female also differs from the 

 male in having the outer margin of tho posterior wings dentately sinuate. 



I failed to place this genus in the Synopsis {p* 197), believing, previous to 

 close examination, that the following species really belonged to Gerijdm, as hitherto 

 classified. Its position is readily defined as allied to Qtrydm and Logattiu by 

 having tin- third subcostal m-rvuh- of the aiiti.-nor whilst nmttod bevund the end 

 of cell, and it differs from the first l>y the uon-eompressed and non-dilated tarsi, 

 and from the second by the non-globosely mcrassated tibial apices. fio. oe.— Posterior 



leg of Partigtrydu* 

 hartjifldi. 



L Paragerydus horsfieldi- (Tab. XX., fig* 7?.) 



MiUtHs iJomjiddi, Moore (Horsf. & Moore), Cat, Ley. Mus. E.l.C. i. p. 19, n. 8, t. la, f. 2 (1857); Druce, 



Proe. Zool. Soc. 187a, p. Ml, n. 1. 

 Gerydm HorsfieldU Butl. Trans. Linn. Soo. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 646, n. 1 (1877). 



Male. Wings above dart brownish ; anterior wings with a pnlo oelimceous streak beyond cell, 

 extending along the upper median nervule for about half its Length. Wings beneath greyish, thickly 

 mottled with irregularly shaped and sized brown markings; fringe pale brownish. Body and legs more or 

 less concolorous with wings. 



Female. Resembling the male, but with the anterior wings proportionally shorter and their outer 

 margin convex ; the outer margin of the posterior wings dentately sinuate, and the pule streak on the 

 upper surface of the anterior wings almost obsolete. 



Exp. wings, <J and ? t 31 to 40 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Penang (Brit. Mus.) ; Sungei Ujong (Durnford — coll* Disk); Malacca 

 (Pinwill— Brit. Mus.): Singapore (Kerr — coll. Diet.)— Java (coll. Horsf.) —Borneo (Lowe — coll. Godm. 

 and Salv.). 



Two specimens received from Singapore, and both males, are smaller than the female here 

 figured, which itself does not equal in size some large male specimens captured at Sungei 

 Ujong. It is therefore very evident that size is a very variable element in the form of 

 this species* 



Paragerydus nivalis. (Tab. XXII., eg. 11 ? .) 



Miletus nivalin, Druce, Proc. Zool. Boc. 1873, p. 848, n. 4. 



Gerydus nmi/w? Bull. Trans. Linn. Soc. Ber. 2, Zool. vol. 1, p. G4G, n. 2 (1877). 



My only knowledge of this species is derived from the Bornean type described by Mr. Druce, 

 and a Maiaccan specimen in the British Museum, horn which the figure is taken. The following 

 is the original description ; — 



"Male. TJpperside dark brown. Underside white, speckled with pale brown. Anterior wing with 

 six black spots close to the outer margin ; posterior wing with five." * 

 Exp. wings, " 1 inch." 



Hjl%— Malay Peninsula; Malacca (Pin will— Brit* Maa.) — Borneo (Lowe— coll. Godm. & Salv.). 



* Thciac spots would be more correctly described an margiiml, and are fiearccly reducible io ilic numbers given. 



