BUTTERFLIES 
CHINA, JAPAN, AND COREA. 
PART II. 
Pam. LYC^NID^. 
Genus TARAKA. 
Taraka (Doherty, MS.), de Niceville, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 57 (1890). 
" Wiri(/s remarkably fragile and thin. 
" Fore wing : costa regularly rounded, apes rather acute, outer margin convex, inner margin 
concave ; costal nervure not touching the first subcostal nervule, a little swollen at the 
base ; first subcostal nervule originates two fifths before the end of the discoidal cell ; 
second subcostal arising twice the distance from the base of the first as from the base of 
the upper discoidal ; third subcostal arises midway between the apex of the cell and of 
the wing ; diseocellular nervules slightly produced outwardly, lower discoceUular longer 
than the middle one and very slender, meeting the median nervule just beyond its laut 
forking. 
" Hind wing long and narrow ; costa long, outer margin rounded, composed of two curves 
meeting at the end of the second subcostal nervule, inner margin convex for most of its 
length ; costal nervure long, extending to the apes, running close to the margin ; discoidal 
