298 LTC.ENID.E. 
cell abruptly truncate ; discocellular nervules meeting the subcostal nervure just beyond 
its bifurcation, and the median nervure opposite its last bifurcation. 
" Eyes naked. 
" Antenna;, with thirty joints or more, slender, the last ten (approximately) gradually forming 
a moderate club, abruptly truncate at the tip, the last joint elongate. 
" Palpi : last joint covered with long appressed scales, rather short, less than half as long as the 
preceding joint, fusiform, pointed, not clavate. 
" ie^s covered with very long white hairs, the middle and liind femora longer than the tibia;, 
which are greatly swollen in the middle, the tarsi as long as the tibiie, the first joint nearly 
twice as long as the others united, the last joint with simple claws and paronychia. Fore 
tarsi of the male slender, equal in length to the tibiie, without spines or articulations, the claws 
united for most of their length, diverging at the end. Fore tarsi of the female longer than 
the tibia;, without spines, the claws as in the male, no distinct M-ticulations ; the separation 
of the last joint is slightly indicated but is quite immovable." (DJitrfti, M.S., de Niceville. I. c.) 
Taraka liamada. 
Miletus hamada, Drucc, Cist. Ent. i. p. 361 (1875) ; Pryer, Rliop. Kilioii. p. 10, pi. ii. 
fig. 12(188R). 
Taraka hamada, de Niceville, Butt. lud. iii. p. 58, pi. xxvi. fig. 164, ? (1890). 
Miletus hamada, Druce. " Upperside male, dark brown, lightest in the middle of the anterior wing. 
Tuderside of both wings white, crossed from the costal margin of the anterior to the inner 
margin of the posterior wing by five rows of large black spots, a fine black line round the outer 
margin of both wings, the fringe alternately black and white. The female differs slightly 
from the male, being paler in colour above, and having all the black spots smaller below. 
Exp. d ? 1 T6 i"*^^- 
"Hab. Yokohama, Japan." (Druce, 1. c.) 
Piyer gives Yokohama aud Xikko as Japanese localities for this species, 
aud says that it is confined to isolated spots : " Some specimens are quite 
black, and others from the mountains have a patch of greyish white on the 
fore mng. It varies from f to 1| inch." 
I found this species all along the west coast of Japan. It occurs iu the 
neighbourhood of ponds, and flies among thick bamboo-grass ; the black and 
white under surface of this species renders it very conspicuous when at rest 
on the leaves. 
In China 1\ lunnada occurs at Omei-shan, July and August ; Moupiu, 
July; Chang-van g and Ichang. None of the specimens exceed an inch in 
expanse, but in all other respects they are identical with the examples from 
Japan. 
According to de ^'iceville, T. liamada is a common species iu Sikkim at low 
elevations from April to December, " and shows much variation iu the extent of 
