376 RHOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



in my hands for figuring and identification. It appears to exhibit a maximum of glandular 

 development. 



1. Paduka glandulosa, n.sp. (Tab. XXXV., fig. 5, ^ .) 



Male. "Wings al)ovc dark fuliginous-brown ; anterior wings with a large discal patch of dark fuscous 

 silky hairs ; posterior wings with the fringe pale ochraceous, and with two pale raised discal elongate 

 glandular pouches situate on the second and third median nervules. Wings beneath paler than above ; 

 anterior wings with the disk darkest, the inner area palest, and with a long tuft of coarse pale ochraceous 

 hairs on the submedian nervure ; posterior wings with a transverse discal pale ochraceous fascia. Body and 

 legs more or less concolorous with wings. Antennse blackish, their hooked apices ochraceous. 



Exp. wings, <? , 55 millim. 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula ; Singapore (coll. Staudinger). 



Genus PIRDANA. 



I'inlann, Distant, aiitcn, p. 309. 



This genus principally differs from the preceding— Prtfidfca— in the following characters :— The upper 

 disco-cellular nervule of the anterior wing is longer than the lower ; the first and second median nervules 

 of the same wing are emitted moderately close together and remote from the lower median nervule ; and 

 there is a complete absence of the glandular patches and pouches as found in Paduka. 



This genus will also contain the Hcsperia ismene, Feld.,* a Celebesian species. 

 1. Pirdana hyela. (Tab. XXXV., fig. 6 ? .) 



Hfspn-ui lli/cla, Howitson, Desc. Hcsp. p. 23, n. 2 (18G7). 



Female. Wings above very dark fuscous, the basal areas of both wings somewhat extensively 

 bluish-green ; posterior wings with the anal-angular area bright orange-yellow, the fringe yellowish-grey. 

 Wings beneath extensively shaded with bluish-grey, with darker reflections between the nervules ; anterior 

 wings purplish-brown between the two lower median nervules, the inner area pale yellowish-grey ; posterior 

 wings with the anal-angular area and the fringe as above. Body above more or less concolorous with 

 wings, heneath somewhat yellowish-grey ; legs brownish. 



Exp. wings, 2 , -15 millim. 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula; Sungei Ujong (coll. Godfery).— Java (Hewitson). 



I have examined a Malaccan male specimen in the collection of Dr. Staudinger, which 

 may prove to be the male of this species, but which is unfortunately so rubbed beneath as to 

 make exact determination somewhat hazardous. This specimen is dark obscure chocolate- 

 brown above, with the anal-angular area orange-yellow as in the female. If this is really 

 the other sex, as I strongly suspect, then Mr. Hewitson erroneously described the female 

 as a male. 



- Tliis sijecies has been inchuled by Mabille iu his genus Tanyptera (Ann. Soc. Eiit. Belg. xxi. p. 33, 1878), but 

 erroneously. That genus was first appHetrto a West African species, i\\e Hcsperia laufella, Uew., which may therefore be 

 taken as the type, of which the neuration is (ptite distinct from the species included in Pirdana. The name Tauyptera is also 

 pre-occupied, having been used for a genus in Diptera (1804). 



