PADUKA. 19 



21. PADUKA LEBADEA, HEWITSON. 



Hesperia, lebadea, Hewitson, Ex. Butt., vol. iv, pi. iii, figs. 22, 23 

 Paduka glandulosa, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 376, pi. xxxv, fig. 



5 "o (1886). 



Ismene lebadea, var. andamanica, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, J.A.S.B. 



1881, p. 254. 



" Male. Wings above 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 situated on the second and third median nervules. Wings beneath 

 paler than above ; anterior wings with the disc darkest, the inner area 

 palest, and with a long tuft of coarse pale ochraceous hairs on the sub- 

 median nervure ; posterior wings with a transverse discal pale ochraceous 

 fascia. Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings. Antennae 

 blackish, their hooked apices ochraceous. 



Exp. wings, *D 55 millim. 



Hab. Malay Peninsula ; Singapore (coll. Staudinger)" (Distant, I. c.) 



I obtained a single male of this species at Beeling, N. Tenasserim, in 

 April. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



The following is the description of the local race andamanica. 



" Male. Wings above dark brown of a slightly greenish tinge, all 

 without spots. Anterior wings bearing a huge and dense pear-shaped 

 sericeous patch of setae glossed with greyish-greenish and extending nearly 

 from the bottom of the angle formed at the base of the organ by the 

 subcostal and submedian veins about to the level of the end of the fourth 

 fifth of the length of the latter vein, with all the setae directed backwards 

 and slightly outwards ; with the costal margin purplish ; the outer portion 

 beyond the setulose patch bronzy ; and the cilia pale luteous. 



Posterior wings purple-glossed, with two subparallel raised discal 

 longitudinal lines of modified scales attached to the apparently thickened 

 bases of the first and second median veinlets, and with the cilia pale 

 orange. 



Anterior wings below bronzy-brown with a patch of brilliant amethyst- 

 purple sparsely irrorated with white scales and extending from the end of 

 the cell nearly to the apex of each organ, and with the basal portion of the 

 wing-membrane behind the median vein and its first branch whitey-brown 

 passing to ashy posteriorly, and with a tuft of brown-tipped yellow setae 

 arranged longitudinally upon and on each side of the basal half of the 

 submedian vein. 



Posterior wings below purple-glossed, darkest over the scent-glands, 

 with an interrupted transverse discal band of white scales from near the 

 abdominal margin to the middle of the organs, where it diffuses itself 

 widely over a diffused patch of amethyst- purple. 



