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Show 94 ME. E. Y. WATSON ON THE HESPEEIIDiE. [JaH. 17, If. Male with a discal stigma on fore wing. w6. Fore wing apically produced, apex slightly truncate; discal stigma of male faint. TIIRACIDES, Hbn. Type, phidon, Cram. (54) If. Fore wing not produced apically, outer margin evenly convex ; discal stigma of male conspicuous. TALIDES, Hbn. Type, sergestus, Cram. (55) ¥. Vein 3 of fore wing well before end of cell, less than twice as far from 2 as from 4. «5. Male with a discal stigma on fore wing. PERICHARES, SC. Type, corydon, Fabr. (56) If. No discal stigma on fore wing of male. fl6. Vein 5 of hind wing wanting. A7. Vein 2 of fore wing almost equidistant from end of cell and base of wing. U N K A N A , Dist. Type, batara, Dist. (57) b7. Vein 2 of fore wing almost equidistant from vein 3 and. base of wing. HIDARI, Dist. Type, irava, Moore. (58) 66. Vein 5 of hind wing well developed. PTEROTEINON, g. n. Type, laufella, Hew. (59) 1. Genus TARACTROCERA. (Plate III. fig. 20.) Taractrocera, Butler, Cat. Lep. Fabr. p. 279 (1869). Type, meevius, Fabr. Antennse short; club forming a flattened disk, conspicuously hollowed out, tip blunt. Palpi: second joint densely scaled; third joint long, slender, erect, reaching above the vertex, tip acuminate. Fore wing: inner margin longer than outer margin; cell less than two-thirds the length of costa; vein 12 reaching costa well before the end of cell; middle discocellular considerably longer than lower one; vein 5 close to bottom of cell; vein 3 well before end of cell, about twice as far from 2 as from 4 ; vein 2 slightly nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. Hind wing : outer margin even; vein 7 very close to end of cell; discocellulars faint; vein 5 not traceable; vein 3 immediately before end of cell; vein 2 twice as far from base of wings as from end of cell. Hind tibise with two pairs of spurs. The only species of those mentioned below in which there is a stigma in the male is papyria, Boisd., in which there is an exceptionally long, slightly oblique stigma on the fore wing, extending from vein 5 as far as vein 1, meeting the latter considerably nearer the margin than the base of wing. f meevius, Fabr 1. i jiavovittata, Latr 5. flaecus, Fabr. papyria, Boisd 6. [ sagara, Moore. celeeno, Cox 2. *ardonia, Hew 3. *danno, Moore 4 niyrolimbatus, Snell 7, *nicevillei, sp. n 8. *ceramas, H e w 9. And seven unidentified species. The "Pamphila" avonti of de Niceville also probably belongs to this genus. This is a genus of very numerous species, which ranges from India through the Malay Archipelago to Australia, appearing to reach |
