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and female dry-season form from Aloungdan, taken in January, by Colonel Adamson. 

 Dr. J. Anderson found both sexes common in the Mergui Archipelago recorded as 

 follo-ws : — " Mergui, Decembpr and Mai-ch ; Zediwon, December ; Pataw Island, 

 December and January ; King Island, February" (J. Linn. See. Zool. 1886, 35). A 

 female, identical with the Fabrician type, taken by Dr. Anderson on King Island, 

 Mergui, in March, is also in the British Museum Collection. 



Of our illustrations of this species on plate 252, fig. 2,2a represents a Burmese 

 male and female of the ivei-season form, and 2b, c male and female of the dry-season 

 form. 



Malayan Spkoies. — Lehadea Sumatrensis, Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. p. 142 

 (1886). L. Martha, Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 145, pi. 17, fig. 10, 11, (? ? (1883); 

 de Nic^ville, J. A. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 415. L. Alankara et Martha, Butler, 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1877, p. 541. Upperside more ochi'eous-brown than in Pa(^M^a. 

 Male. Forewing with the discal transverse white band composed of shorter longi- 

 tudinal upper portions and somewhat broader posterior portions, the outer marginal 

 line less sinuous. Hindiving with the discal white band less attenuated posteriorly ; 

 the inner discal series of black spots more dentate in shape and more distinctly and 

 sharply sinuous inner edged, the marginal black line with a much less sinuous white 

 inner edge. Female with the discal band slender, the outer markings as in male. 

 Expanse, <S 2i-o> ? 2^) inches. Habitat. Malay Peninsula; Sumatra. — Lebadea 

 PaduJca (Lim. Paduka, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 179, cJ ? (1857). 

 Upperside brown. Male. Foregoing with the discal transverse macular white band 

 composed of narrow portions, the portion between the middle and lower medians 

 only being broadly lunate, the two outer marginal sinuous lines very prominent ; 

 the apical white patch distinct. Eindwing with the discal white band broad anteriorly 

 and much attenuated posteriorly ; outer sinuous markings less prominent. Female. 

 Upperside with the discal band on forewing narrower than in male, slender on the 

 hindwing. Expanse c? 2i-o to 2^„, ? 3 inches. Habitat. Borneo; Palawan. — 

 Lebadea Alankara (Aconthea Alankara, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. E. I. C. pi. 5, fig. 6, <? 

 (1829). Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. pi. 49, fig. <?. Male (as figured by Horsfield). 

 Female. Upper and underside with the discal white band of the same broad width 

 and the marginal markings, as in the male. Expanse, c? 2 i-q, ? 2 j^ inches. Habitat. 

 Java (Horsfield and Fruhstorff). — Lebadea Wallacei. Male. Upperside dark brownish- 

 fulvous, the interspaces of the basal marks brighter fulvous ; discal band on both 

 wings violaceous-white and very narrow, narrower than in male Paduka ; the outer 

 sinuous lines also more slendei', not prominent, those on the hindwing and their discal 

 interspace being more or less densely pinkish violet-grey. Underside pale ochreous ; 

 markings as above. Expanse, S 2^q to ^q inches. Habitat. Java (Coll. Moore) ; 

 Sumatra (Coll. Grose-Smith {ex Coll. Wallace). 



