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Genus PIRDANA Dist. 



I. Hyela Hew. (PI. X, fig. 70). 



Hewitson, Dcsci: of Nroj Hesp, /. 23 (1868) .... Hesperia Hyela. 



Plotz, Stdt. Ent. Zcif., 1882, ^. 322 



Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 376. pl- ^5^/l^- 6 (1882 — 1886) Pirdana 

 De Niceville, yotm/. of Soc. of Bengal, 55, 2, /. 438, 



//. 20, fi'g. 6 (1887) Pirdana Rudolphii. 



El WES and Edwards, Trans. Zoo/. Soc. of London, 14, 4, 



/. 223 (1897) Hyela. 



W. J. Depok (95); Tjampea (160); Buitenzorg (265); mount Karang in 



the province of Bantam. 



C. J.? 



E. J. Province of Pasourouan (4- 500) (Fruhst.). 



The larva feeds on daivon soiigi (Cordyline Rumphii Hsk.), on Dracaena 

 spec. ; once I found also a pupa on the leaf of the arai (Arenga Saccharifera 

 Lab.). The caterpillar is greenish gray with two lengthwise black lines, at 

 each side under those lines a row of square black spots. At the hindmost 

 segments the black forms a special drawing. The head is orange with a 

 drawing of little black lines and spots, which is not the same in the case of 

 all caterpillars. 



2. DiSTANTi Staud. (PI. X, 71, a, b, c, d). 



Staudinger, Iris II, s. 140 {sub. Hyela) (1889) .... Pirdana Distanti. 

 De Nickviile, Butterfl. of Sumatra, p. 540 (1895) . • • " Paerna. 



„ „ Jouni. As. Soc. of Bengal, 66, 2, /. 514, 



pi. w, fig. 16 <3, fig. 13 9 (1897) „ Distanti. 



Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. of London, 14, 4, 



/. 223, 224 (1897) „ , 



W. J. Buitenzorg (265); neighbourhood of Pelabouan Ratou or Wynkoops- 

 bay on the south coast (+ 200).* 



C. J.? 



E. J. Province of Pasourouan (+ 500) (Fruhst.). 



The grown up larvae, which I found on the same daivon soiigi as the 

 preceeding species agreed so much with each other that I could state no 

 difference. They were, especially along the sides, covered with a waxy powder. 

 In a not yet grown up larva the black drawing at the back and sides, which 



