hesperinae 
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TAGIADES 
331. Tagiades neira Ploetz. Fig. 780. 
Berliner Entoniologisclio Zeitung 1885, p. 230. 
(f, Abo\'E. Forewing black: a pair of small spots in end of cell, and a minute subcostal spot above 
end of cell, white, hyaline: a small posteellnlar spot in uiB^er edge of area 2, and another in area 3, 
white, hyaline: a curved series o£ five subapieal dots in areas 4 to 8, Avhite, hyaline: traces of a 
faint discal band, wliitish: cilia black. Hindwing with costa, apex and basal third, black: termen 
broadly and produced slightly along veins, black: dorsum and central area, Avhite: a quadrate sub- 
apical spot in area fi, and a larger one in area 4-5 and quite free of black margin, black: cilia white, 
at apex black. 
Bexeath. Forowing as above: hyaline spots slightly larger: discal band much clearer with a large 
cloudy spot in area la, whitisli. Hindwing white: costa, ajiex and termen, broadly black: snbapical 
spots'well free of the black margin. 
Loc. Darnley Is. 5. 16^. 
Our single example agrees closely with some of onr specimens of T. neira from the Arn Is.: this 
species belongs to the group typified by T afficMs. 
Subfamily’ EUSCHEMONINAE. 
Larva. Stout and short: head large and prominent: body smooth and cylindrical: in shape very 
similar to the larvae of P. heaia and N, repanda. Feeds by night, and shelters during the day in a 
folded leaf of the foodplant. 
Pupa. Stout and smooth; head rounded: tail pointed: in shape and appearance very similar to that 
of P. Fastened by the tail witliin the shelter of a folded leaf. 
IitAOO. Of robust build and large size. When in a state of complete repose the butterflies rest with 
tbeir wings extended flat. Forewing with costa one and a half times the length of termen: vein 5 
arising from cell nearer to vein G than to vein 4. Hindwing with fernien rounded: vein 5 ]>resent as a 
liibular vein: male Avith sexmark beneath. 
Baxge. The only known species is eonflned to Australia. 
This subfamily differs from all other butterflies in llie possession of a frennluni.. This has led 
many entomologists to exclude it from the Ilhopaloceraj and assign it to the Ileterocera. Against this 
one important structural point may he placed the characters of the larva, the ])npa, and the antennae, 
as well as the method of flight. These all indicate close affinity with the Hesperinae. Those who 
have seen the larva and pupa, and the insect itself upon the wing, reg’ard it as a. butterfly, and we 
have no hesitation in including it as an ahen*ant sul)family of the Ilespendae. 
Genus EUSCHEMON Doubleday. 
Stokes' Australia, Appendix, p. 513, 1846. 
Antennae mueh more than twolhirds the lengUi of costa: chib long and gradual, 
•onglPig. AS 6). Palpi with third joint short, bluntly conical and porrect. Eyes black. Hind tibiae 
wth a slight fringe of hairs in both sexes. Forewing Avith costa nearly straight, apex acute and 
termen slightly conA’ex: cell not quite tAVothirds the length of costa: vein 12 reaching costa at end oi 
cell: vein 5 slightly nearer to vein 6 than to vein 4. Hindwing with termen rounded: vein 5 present 
^ a tubular A-ein : male Avith a sexmark along vein la, beneath. 
Type. Euscliemon rafflesin Alacleay. 
