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LEPIBOPTEBA INBIOA. 
SPALGIS NUBILUS. 
Plate 629, figs. 1, $, la, ?, lb, ^. 
Spalgis nubilus , Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 522. Distant and Pryer, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
1887, p. 266. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 56 (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 
Soc. 1897, p. 658. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 311 (1907). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside darker than in Epius, nearly pure black ; a black spot 
at the end of the cell, hardly visible, no other markings. Underside darker, with a 
silky lustre, markings as in Epius. 
Female, like that sex of epius, but the pale spaces on both wings much restricted. 
Expanse of wings, £ £ 1 inch. 
Habitat. —Ceylon, Andamans, Nicobars. 
Distribution. —It is in the B. M. from Ceylon, and in our collection from Port 
Blair ; de Niceville records it from Borneo; the type in the B. M. is from the Andamans. 
INDO-MALAYAN AND CHINESE ALLIED SPECIES. 
Spalgis substrigata, Lucia (1) substrigata, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. xxi. p. 15 (1878). Habitat, 
Celebes. 
Spalgis dilama , Lucia dilama, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 701. Habitat, Hainan. 
Spalgis fangola, Lucia fangola, Kheil, Rhop. Nias, p. 28, pi. 5, fig. 31. Habitat, Nias. 
Genus TARAKA. 
Taraka , de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 57 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. 
p. 312 (1907). 
Eyes naked; antennse much as in Pithecops, slender, with a short, distinct 
terminal club ; palpi sub-porrect, third joint sub-fusiform, about half the length of the 
second; body slender; legs short, stout, covered with very long hairs, tibiae swollen in 
the middle; tarsi as long as the tibiae. Forewing, costa rounded, apex rather acute, 
outer margin convex, hinder margin concave; cell not half the length of the wing, 
discocellulars slender, upper very short, lower the longest; vein 8 absent, 9 from middle 
of 7; 10 and 11 free, from apical half of sub-costal; 12 short, terminating on costa 
before end of cell. Hindwing long and narrow, costa long, outer margin rounded, 
composed of two curves meeting at the end of the second sub-costal nervule; cell less 
than half the length of the wing, vein 3 from a little before lower end of the cell, 7 
from a little before the upper end, 8 long, strongly curved upwards at base, then nearly 
straight to the apex of the wing. 
Type, T. hamada, Druce. 
Dr. Chapman says its genitalia is not near anything else he has yet examined. 
