RHOPALOCERA MA [.A VAX A. ^-j^ 



2. Hasora vitta. (Tab. XXXV., fig. 4 J^ .) 



Hesperia Vitta, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. d'JH (1870) ; Lep. Ex. p. 107. t. ,"/), f. 'J ( 1874) ; Trans. Linn. 



Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 551, n. 2 (1877). 

 Isme-ne Vitta, Driice, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 35S, n. 5; Plotz, Stott. Ent. Zuit. xlv. p. 57, n. 18 (IHSI). 

 Ismme Chahnma, Plutz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xlv. p. 5(i, n. IG (1884). 



Male. Wings above dark fuliginous-brown ; anterior wings with three (frequently only one) very 

 small greyish subapical spots ; posterior wings with the fringe greyish-brown, the anal angle more or less 

 suffused with darker fuliginous. Wings beneath paler tiuin above, more or less suffused with obscure 

 violaceous ; anterior wings with an outer submarginal dark fuliginous fascia and with subapical small greyish 

 spots as above; posterior wings with a narrow oblujue greyish-white fascia crossing whig from costal 

 margin to near anal angle, which is occupied by a large blackish spot, with a greyish-white spot on its 

 upper inner margin and a linear greyish-white spot on its outer lower margin. Body and legs more or less 

 concolorous with wings ; palpi and anal tuft beneath greyish-ochraceous. 



Exp. wings, <? , 43 to 45 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Perak (Kunst. — Calc.Mus.); Malacca (Plotz ; Pinwill — Urit.Mus.). — ]5orneo 

 (Druce) ; Sarawak (Butl.). — Philippines (Plotz). 



I feel little hesitation in placing the I. Chahrona, Plutz, as the female, and therefore synonym, 

 of this species. I have not seen a female specimen, Init the description of Plcitz specifies 

 spotted anterior wings combined with all the other characters of H. vitt<(, wliich are in unison 

 with the differential sexual characters which obtain in the previously described species, 

 H. badm. 



Some amount of variation is apparent in the width of tlie greyish-white fascia on the 

 under surface of the anterior wings. 



Genus PADUKA. 



Pailiika, Distant, antea, p. 369. 



Anterior wings elongate, subtriangular ; costal margin oblicpic, outer margin nearly straight, inner 

 margin very slightly rounded. Costal nervure terminating on costa a little before the end of cell, lirst 

 subcostal nervule emitted a little beyond middle of cell ; second, third, and fourth subcostal nervules about 

 equal distances apart, fifth from near end of cell ; disco-cellular nervules about equal in length, the upper 

 suberect, the lower obliquely directed inwardly ; middle median nervule slightly nearer upper than lower. 

 Posterior wings with the costal margin rounded, the outer margin sinuated and somewhat loliately 

 produced at anal angle ; subcostal nervules bifurcating about middle of cell ; median nervules with their 

 bases moderately close together. Body robust, pilose, the hairs forming several prominent tufts, of which 

 the most noticeable are three in triangular series above base of abdomen. Palpi broad and coarsely pilose. 

 Legs lougly pilose beneath. Antennie somewhat long and slender, with a moderately formed club, its 

 apex attenuated and strongly curved or hooked. 



Male. Anterior wings above with a large discal patch of silky hairs extending to base along the 

 median nervure, and an elongate patch of long silky hairs on base of inner margin. Posterior wings above 

 with long silky hairs at base and along submediau nervure, and with two prominent discal elongate 

 glandular pouches— or pseudo-scent glands— situate on the second and thii-d median nervules. Anterior 

 wings beneath with a long tuft of coarse hairs on the submedian nervure. 



The extraordinary butterfly for the reception of which I have been compelled to propose 

 this genus, is contained in the collection of Dr. Staudinger, who has obligingly placed it 



