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and submedian nervures and the first median nervule streaked with 

 bronzy-green. Hindwing with the cell and all the veins and abdominal 

 margin streaked with bronzy-green, the cilia at the anal angle orange as 

 above, but slightly broader. Head and body above concolorous with the 

 wings on the upperside, palpi, thorax and underside of body orange. 



Antennae dark brown throughout except the tip of the club on the 

 underside which is paler. No secondary sexual characters. 



Expanse, t> 2-00 ; 9 2-25 inches. 



Allied to Hesperia ismene, Felder, from Celebes, from which it differs in 

 having the cilia only of the hindwing on both sides at the anal angle 

 orange : in H. ismene the anal angle of the wing is broadly orange, as are 

 also the last three segments of the abdomen on the upperside. It is also 

 allied even more closely to Pirdana hyela, Hewitson (Distant, Rhop. Malay., 

 p. 376, n. i, pi. xxxv., fig. 6, 9 (1886), which in the extent of the yellow 

 area at the anal angle is about intermediate between it and P. ismene, 

 and agree with it in having the body dark brown, not yellow, above. It is 

 also more distantly allied to C. benjaminii, Guerin. 



A single male from Tavoy. 



In Colonel Lang's collection is a very old specimen from Sikkim, without 

 head or abdomen, which we believe to be the female of this species. On the 

 upperside of both wings it is obscurely glossed^with green on the basal two- 

 thirds, the forewing is rather broader, the outer margin slightly convex, 

 which in the male is slightly concave ; and on the hindwing the orange 

 colouring at the anal angle is rather broader (not nearly so broad as in 

 P. ismene or P. hyela), and the cilia are throughout orange. Underside 

 paler than in the male, the ground-colour obscure green rather than brown, 

 the orange coloration at anal angle of hindwing as on upperside, but 

 rather broader." (Elwes and de Niceville, I. c.) 



In collection Indian Museum. The Rev. Walter A. Hamilton has 

 also obtained a single specimen in the Khasi Hills. 



GENUS X. MATAPA. 



Matapa, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 163 (1881). 



Matapa, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 379 (1886). 



"Forewing elongated, triangular; cell extending two-thirds the wing, 

 broadest across the middle, very narrow at each end ; subcostals at 

 equal distances apart ; first branch emitted at one-third before end of 

 the cell ; disco-cellulars extremely oblique, upper bent inward to sub- 

 costal, lower very slender, straight ; upper radial from the angle, lower 

 from their middle ; upper median emitted from end of cell opposite third 

 subcostal, middle median at one-fifth and lower at nearly three-fifths 

 before end of the cell ; submedian curved in the middle. Male with an 

 oblique discal slender linear glandular streak of raised scales ; hindwing 

 short, rather broad ; exterior margin convex in middle ; costal vein 

 slightly arched in middle, extending to apex; second subcostal emitted 



