5-8 PADRAONA. 



underside entirely yellow, chequered with dusky, the inner margin also 

 dusky. 



Very like Hesperia paniscns and sylvius in form and size. The wings 

 brown on the upperside, a broad yellow streak along the costal margin from 

 the base to beyond the middle ; not reaching a small almost square spot near 

 which begins an oblique band which runs towards the inner margin, both 

 yellow. The inner margin between the above-mentioned band and the base 

 of the wing is also yellow. The underside of this wing agrees with the 

 upperside except that the whole of the costal margin and apex are also 

 yellow. The hindwings have in the centre a large yellow spot, behind which 

 is a small one of similar colour. Below they are yellow and only brown 

 along the inner margin, the yellow ground-colour is also covered with brown 

 cubical, but not clearly defined, spots. The body above brown clothed 

 with yellowish hairs, the underside, banded with yellow. The antennae 

 with the club hooked, barred with brown and yellow above. 



The butterfly seems to be nearly allied to Hesperia maro, Fabricius. 



Hugel brought a single specimen from the Himalayas. 



Expanse: i inch." (Kollar, I. c.*) 



Also recorded from Orissa (Taylor ) ; Sikkim (Elwes) ; Calcutta, (de 

 Niceville) ; Kumaon (Doherty) ; Kangra, N.-W. Himalayas (Moon} ; Cachar 

 (Wood-Mason and de Nictville) ; also as P. masa from Simla Hills and 

 Kunawur (Moore] ; Mhow (Swinkoe) ; Orissa (Taylor). 



I have obtained this species commonly at Rangoon. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



79.-PADRAONA M/ESOIDES, BUTLER. 



Pamphila mcesoides, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc., Lond., second series, 

 vol. i, p. 554 (i 879). 



Padraona mcesoides, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 171, pi. 71, figs. 5, 50 

 (1881). 



Telicota mcesoidts, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 383, pi. xxxiv, fig. 24 (1886). 



" Upperside vinous olive-brown. Male : forewing with a golden-yellow 

 band along base of costa and within the cell, three small connected sub- 

 apical spots, a narrow sinuous discal band, and a streak along posterior 

 margin ; hindwing with a golden-yellow medial discal sinuous band, a 

 less distinct spot within the cell, and a spot on the costa. Cilia yellow. 

 Underside paler, marked as above. Female : differs only in having 

 narrower markings and less prominent costal band on the forewing. 



Expanse : $ T 9 o, ? i inch." (Moore, I. c.) 



Recorded from Ceylon (Mackwood) ; Andamans ( Wood-Mason and de 

 Niceville'] ; Kumaon (Doherty} ; Orissa (Taylor) ; Sikkim (Elwes), 



Mr. Doherty notes that this species differs from P. dara "in the rich 

 dark tawny-ochreous colour of the underside, dara being greenish-yellow 



