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Show 1892.] THE NAGA AND KAREN HILLS AND PERAK. 655 TAGIADES OBSCURUS. * 1 T. obscurus, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1876, p. 274. A pair from Perak which seem to come nearest to this species, and are identical with specimens from Pulo Laut. TAGIADES DECORATUS. Eudamus decoratus, Hew. Descr. Hesp. p. 17 (1867). Pterygospidea decoratus, Hew. Ex. Butt. v. Pteryqospidea, fig. 2 (1873). Five males of this beautiful and distinct species were taken at the foot of the Karen Hills. I am not sure that it will come into this genus, though it seems best placed here at present. TAGIADES TRICHONEURA. Pterygospidea trichoneura, Feld. Reise Nov. t. 73. 14, 15. Several specimens of this species from the Karen Hills and Perak. The white colour of the underside distinguishes it perfectly from T. pralaya, Moore. TAGIADES ATTICUS. ? Hesp. atticus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 339. Pterygospidea menaka, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 778. There seem to be three forms of this common butterfly, but I think they run into each other and are hardly separable. The first has two black spots within the white field of the hind wing and large marginal oblong dashes ; I have it from the N.W. Himalaya, Nepal, and Sikkim, and one from the Naga Hills. The second has no spots within the field, and occurs in Sikkim, Bhutan, the Naga Hills, and Tenasserim. The third, of which I have a female marked T. menaka by Moore, I have only from the Karen Hills. It has the spot in the white field, but the marginal spots small, round, and separate, not united into a band as in the other two. From Malabar I have only one specimen, which combines the characters of the last two. From Pulo Laut I have two specimens, of which one is like T. menaka, and the other has the marginal spots of the hind wing almost absent. UDASPES FOLUS. Pap.folus, Cram. Pap. Ex. i. t. lxxiv. 7. A single male from the Karen Hills has the white markings very large, especially in the hind wing. TAGIADES DEALBATA. T. dealbata, Dist. Rhop. Mai. p. 388, t. xxxv. 21 3. Four specimens from Perak and one from Margharita have the white outer band of the fore wing spotless as figured by Distant, whilst two from Perak, one from the Karen Hills, and one from Burmah have two black spots on the white. There is also some 44* |