41 't W. Dolierty — Oeriain Itjasmdm from Loiver Tenasserim. [No. 4, 



I place here a few genera of dubious position. Lycamcesthes witli ita 

 siiiculate egg, flattened above, sliows affinities with Deudorix, but is con- 

 nootod with the Lijcccmnm by Niphanda, which (JV. tessellata) lias eoncavo 

 eggs. The egg of SpaJgis is much flattened above, and delicntelj reti- 

 culated with irregular hexagons. Its position, like that of the following 

 genera, ean hardly be understood till the insects of tropical Africa, tha 

 great storehouse of low forms of Lycmiidm, are better known. Kext to 

 Bpalgis I place the singular genus Taraka (mihi), of which the type is 

 Milehis Jiamada, Druce. This genus greatly resembles Neopithecops, 

 and like it is probably protected. It may be separated from it by tlio 

 narrow cell nearer the coeta, and by the oblique discocellulars. From 

 Bpalgis it differs in the antennsB, which are much as in the Pithecops 

 group, slender, annulated, with a short, distinct terminal club, while 

 Spalgis has short stout anlennee, gradually thickened. The prehen- 

 eors of Taralca are wholly lycfeniform. The egg is remarkable, and bears 

 a decided resemblance to those of the Gerydinm, with which Mr. Druce 

 first placed it. The apex is flattened, a little concave, irregularly reti- 

 culate, with a strong crenulated carina projecting both upwards and 

 outwards, around the margin. Seen from the Bide, it is irregularly 

 quadrate, a little widest at base, the sides smooth. The genus is 

 evidently related to Liphyra and the older and more generalized forms 

 of the Gerydhm included in the genera Logania and Malais. 



I have made a careful description of Taralca malianetra, a very rare 

 Malayan species somewhat resembling Castalius elna in colouring. I 

 caught but a single pair of this species, and both I believe are now lost. 

 Generally, they agreed with T. liamada in structure, but the forefoot 

 of the female (as well as that of the male) was impci'fect, and the joints 

 of the tarsi immovable. As it is just possible that this peculiarity mny 

 have been due to gynandromorphism, I merely mention it, and resci've 

 liamada as the type of the genus. The egg of malianetra I, unluckily, 

 do not know. The description of this species will appear in Mr. de 

 Niceville's work. 



The Qerydmm can beet be defined by the prehensors, the egg, very 

 abnormal in most of the genera, approaching the lycreniform shape in 

 Logania and Malais. The clasps (harpagones) are small and normal. 

 Fortunately, they are very variable in shape, and afford good specific 

 characters, which are especially valuable in the diflicult genus Logania 

 and in Allotimis. The «mci or upper organs are developed into immense 

 knife-like blades, fitting into the tufted, scabbard-like, greatly elongate 

 last joint of the abdomen. Each uncus has a branch, shaped something 

 like a human femur or humerus, fitting to the middle of the under 

 surface of the uncus with a ball-and-socket joint, and when at rest ap- 



