ERYNNINAE 
200 
TARACTROCERA 
Genus TARACTROCERA Butler. 
Catalogue Fabrician Diurnal Lc‘])ido 2 )tera, p. 279, 18G9. 
Antennae more than half the length of costa: club spatulate with apiculus absent or very short 
(Fig. AO 1). Palpi Avith third joint slei;der and erect. Porewing Avith A^ein 5 nearer to A'ein 4 than 
Fig. AO. Antennae of Erynninae (enlarged). 
1. Taratrocera'papyria. 2. Padraona Jlavovittata. 3. Padraona Jiypomeloma. 4. Padraona manias, fi. Cephrenes 
sperlhias. 6. Cephrenes amalia. 7. Paniara laraca. 8. Paniara mathias, 9. Sahera caesina. 10. Sahera 
fxUiginosa, 11. Notocrypta leucogaster. 
to vein C: vein 3 nearer to vein 4 than to vein 2: vein 2 nearer to vein 4 than to base of wino-- male 
Avith or Avitliout a discal sexmark. IlindAving Avitli termen evenly rounded. 
Type. Taractrocera viaevhis Pabricius, from Ceylon. 
PooDpmvxT. Imperata, Cynodon (Coueli grass). 
All the species may be at once distinguished by the spatulate clubs of the antennae. We include 
withm this genus Bihla (type B. papyria), erected by Mabille for those species of Taractrocera with 
a discal sexmark on foreAviug. 
292. Taractrocera papyria Boisduvai. 
292a. T. papyria papyria Boisduvai. Fig. 580, 581. 
Voyage Astroial>e, Lepidoptera, p. 166, 1832. 
c?. Above Forewing dull brown: base and dorsum lightly dusted dull orange: a siiot in end of cell 
and piodueod along niedian dull orange: three small obscure transverse subapical spots, dull oraiisre- 
sm-iller^7I r ‘ eonllueut spots, from vein la to vein (i. dull orange, with last fwo 
smallti than the others and moved nearer termen: cilia brown with tip.s whitish- a voi-v' narrow 
f li! a? Hindwing dull brown: a dot m colllnd a dot 
browrwUh fips while. ‘^11 orange: cilia 
Bekisath. Forewing brown: costa and apex suffused pale orange-brown; cell spot and siibanioal 
Sihrstlwr’a dle c-ontluent. and 
lint , f ^ i’e»iamder and often white: termen with a white line. Ilimlwim' 
of conn.Ld “ •‘cf’ ^TrTf- “ ‘1‘scalband 
01 coiiiiuem spots, Aviiite: termen Avith a Avliitish lino. 
^naitwlr- ’t?" 1 band 
owei. .cxmaik absent. Hmdwing as in male: coll spot smaller and discal band narrower. 
Bexeatti a.s in male: spots smaller and bands narrower. 
Log. ]Ou.a„da 3 4 5. Port Macquarie 10. Manning R. 3. Sydney 
2 3 1 Cu lemaine o 1 a fH. Melbourne 2 3 10. Gisborne 
- ^ Ji. b-n.stleinaino 2 10. Strahan 1 12. 49ci" 35 P. 
tinged '^gleeuislrbenfrth!*^*^ "'*’*'* liands of the undersurface: freshly omorgod specimens are often 
