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Upperside similarly marked to the male except that on the foreioin^ the 

 costa above the discoidal cell is dark and the overlying yellow scales 

 at the base and along the inner margin are obsolescent, so that the 

 dark markings show up more prominently. Underside as in the 

 male, but the dark markings on the hind wing less concealed by yellow 

 scales. Abdomen dark above, yellow beneath. Antenna, shaft ringed 

 with black and yellow, duh black above, yellow beneath, tip dark. 

 Legs, yellow, almost naked, hind-tibise with two pair of spurs, fore- 

 tibiae with the usual epiphysis. No secondary sexual characters on the 

 wings or legs. Both sexes have a tuft of black hairs at the extreme 

 base of the costa of the hindwing ; this tuft is perhaps slightly more 

 developed in the male. 



This species belongs to the group which contains T. papyria^ 

 Boisduval ; T. nigrolim'bata^ Snellen ; T. flavovittata, Latreille, and 

 T. flavoides, Leech, all of which much resemble species of Padarona in 

 markings. From T. papyria the present species differs in wanting 

 the sexual brand on the upperside of the forewing, from T. nigrolhn- 

 hata in the much smaller extent of the yellow markings of the upper- 

 side, from T. flavovittatus in the entirely different markings of both 

 upper- and underside, lastly from T. flavoides which is known to me 

 only by the figure and which appears its nearest ally, the present 

 species differs in the much more pronounced banding of the underside 

 of the hindwing. 



Described from five males and one female taken at Thayetmyo in 

 September, and two females taken at Myingyan in November ; I have 

 also previously taken the species in the Yaw District and recorded it as 

 Padraona nigrolimhatus, and have lately seen a specimen from Moul- 

 mein, which is in Mr. de Niceville's collection. The species shows 

 little variation, except that the yellow band on the forewing is slightly 

 broader in some specimens than in others, and that the uppermost spot 

 in the discal band on the hindwing is occasionally minute or altogether 

 wanting. 



I had described this species as new, but Mr. de Niceville pointed 

 out to me that in his opinion my type specimens belonged ta 

 " Thymelicus " ziclea^ Plotz, and sent me some Philippine specimens 

 to compare, and I have no doubt as to the identit}^ of the Burma and 

 Philippine examples. 



