590 HESPEEIID.E. 
Taractrocera flavoides, sp. nov. (Plate XL. figs. 10 2, 11 s .) 
31ale. Primaries pale fulvous, shaded with blackish on basal area ; below the outer extremity of 
discoidal cell there is a large black spot, -n-hich 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 submedian 
nervure, the second spot is more or less quadrate in shape, and is placed out of line 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 occuiTed at 
Chow-pin-sa and Omei-shan, is very like Padraona Jlava, for which it might 
easily be overlooked. The antennee, however are not hooked at the tip, 
but have spoon-shaped clubs. Its nearest ally appears to be T. vigrolim- 
hatus, Snellen *, from Batavia. 
Genus ADOP.EA. 
Adopaa, Billb. Enum. Ins. p. 81 (18.20) ; Watsou, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 98. 
Type, ihaumas, Hufn. 
Pelion, Kirhj, List Brit. Rhop. (1858). Type, thaumas, Hufn. 
" Antennffi 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. Pore 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 3 close to end of cell ; vein 2 (in botli 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 5 
not traceable ; vein 3 immediately before end of cell ; vein 2 more than twice as far from 
base of wing as from end of cell. Hind tibice with two pairs of spurs. Abdomen slender, 
extending beyond anal angle of hind wings. 
" Male with a linear discal stigma on the fore wing, in two portions— the upper portion long, 
lying below the inner margin of cell, from the origin of vein 3 to as far as vein 2 ; the lower 
portion short, in continuation of the upper portion, from below vein 2 to not quite as far as 
vein 1. 
" Distrilution. Holarctic." {Watson, I. c.) 
* Tijds. V. Entora. xix. p. 165, pi. vii. fig. 5 (1S76). 
