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blackish-lirown, ami in the shape of the middle blackish-brow u baud. ITindiving as in 

 P. dara, but the orange-ochreous cell-spot is larger and clearer, the discal liand is 

 straighter and the orange-ochreous streak inside the abdominal area is more or less 

 obsolete. Underside. Forewing as on the upperside. Ilindiorng ochreous, more or less 

 suffused with minute brown scales, the cell spot and discal band strongly edged with 

 black, and there are three deep black spots below the costa, and a spot below the outer 

 one. Antenna Ijlack, spotted with wdiite on the underside of the shaft, the club 

 whitish beneath ; palpi, head and Itody above blackish as in P. dara. 



Female like the male, but the blackish-brown colour on the upperside of both 

 wings much more extensive, leaving very narrow orange-ochreous bands. 



Expanse of wings, $ '^ l^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



Distribution. — Friihstorfer records it from Ceylon ; we possess two male examples 

 from Kandy, and our female figure is from an example in the B. M., also from Kandy ; 

 Friihstorfer informs us that his is an IMS. name, not descriljed ; the types of both sexes 

 are now in the B. 31. 



PADRAONA RECTIFASCIATA. 



Plate 815, figs. 1, i , la, ? , lb, $ , Ir, 9 . 



Telicota recfifasctata, Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. '25i, pi. 21, fig. 17, (^ , and 

 pi. 25, figs. 68, 68a (genitalia). Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 34. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing bright orange-ochreous, brighter coloured 

 than in dara, a thin blackish-brown streak along the upper side of the cell, a blackish- 

 brown band from the base as in dara, its sides even, not sinuous as in dara, otherwise 

 very similar in shape, the lower portion of it, before it turns upwards, covered with 

 bright orange-ochreous scales, the outer marginal band much as in dara, all the veins 

 blackish-brown. Jlindwing much as in dara, but the orange-ochreous portions brighter 

 in colour. Cilia of forewings orange-grey, of hiudwings bright orange-ochreous. 

 Underside much as in dara, but all the ochreous portions much brighter ; in the 

 forewing, the lower black portions much blacker, the hindwing suft'used with ochreous, 

 often nearly obliterating most of the markings. Antennae black, ringed with ochreous, 

 the club ochreous beneath and at the tip ; palpi, head and body covered with ochreou.s 

 hairs on the upperside and uniformly ochreous beneath. 



Female like the male, but duller in colour, all the ochreous portions much more 

 limited. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ ly*(y inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Burma. 



