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TARAKA HAMADA. 
Plate 629, figs. 2, £, 2a, 9» 2b, $ (Wet-season Brood), 2c, £, 2d, 5 (Dry-season Brood). 
Miletus hamada , Druee, Cist. Ent. i. p. 361 (1875). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 882. 
de Riceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 76, pi. 1, fig. 16, $. Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. 
Bengal, 1886, p. 132. Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 409. Pryer, Rhop, Riphonica, p. 10, 
pi. 2, fig. 12, ? (1886). 
Neopithecops hamada , Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 374, pi. 11, fig. 2, 9 • 
Taralca hamada, de Riceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 58, pi. 26, fig. 164, 9 (1890). Watson, Journ. 
Bo. Rat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 44. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 621. Swinhoe, Trans. 
Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 292. Watson, Journ. Bo. Rat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 658. Bingham, Fauna 
of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 312 (1907). 
Wet-season Brood (Figs. 2, £, 2a, 9, 2b, £). 
Imago. —Male and Female. Upperside rather pale black, very uniform in colour, 
no markings, but the spots on the underside slightly showing through the wings. 
Underside white, with black spots and markings. Forewing with a basal streak and a 
streak adjoining, followed by an ante-medial transverse band complete to the cell, 
where it is disjointed and has a disconnected spot on the costa; a medial band, 
disjointed in the middle ; two spots from the costa ; a band of post-discal spots; 
a sub-terminal series of small round spots and a row of triangular spots on the outer 
margin. Hindwing with a basal spot, followed by a band disconnected in its middle, 
then two short streaks in echelon, with three pairs of spots below them ; a sub¬ 
terminal series of round spots decreasing in size hindwards and a marginal black line. 
Expanse of wings, $ 9 ly 1 -^ inches. 
Dry-season Brood (Figs. 2c, £, 2d, 9)- 
Male. Upperside more transparent, the spots showing through the wing more 
plainly. Forewing with the basal two-thirds of the wing pale ; a white streaky patch 
beyond the lower end of the cell. Hindwing also pale; the spots quite as apparent. 
Underside as in the other form. 
Female. Much paler than the male. Forewing mostly pure white, leaving a broad 
costal and outer brown border. Hindwing pale brown; costal and outer portions 
darker brown. Underside as in the male. 
Expanse of wings, £91 inch. 
x Habitat. —Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Malay ana. 
Distribution. —Watson records it from the Chin Hills, Elwes from the Naga and 
Karen Hills, de Niceville from Cachar, Chittagong, Tenasserim, E. Java, China; and in 
our collection from the Khasia Hills, Sikkim and Yokohama; some of the Japanese 
examples are very small; it is in the B. M. also from the Shan States, Moupin, 
Shanghai, Foochow, and Chusan. 
