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about one-third before the lower end of the cell, 2 at about one-third from the base ; 

 outer margin of the wing excavated at vein 2, and produced into a prominent lobe. 

 Antennae short, less than half the length of the costa, club gradual, of moderate thick- 

 ness, fining to a point and bent more or less like a hook ; hind tibife fringed and with 

 two pairs of spurs ; no secondary sexual characters. 

 Type, Papilio exclamationis, Fabricius. 



BADAMIA EXCLAMATIONIS. 



Plate 753, figs. 3, $ , 3a, 9 , 3b, (J , 3c, 9 > 3d, e, f, larva and pupa. 



Pajnlio exclamationis, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 530 (1775). 



Hesjieria exclamationis, Butler, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1870, p. 58. 



Badamia exclamationis, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 157, pi. 66, figs. 2a, b (1881). Moore, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1882, p. 261. Swinhoe, id. 1885, p. 148. de Mceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 4 ; 



id. idem, p. 52. Doherty, id. 1886, p. 137. Wood-Mason and de Niceville, id. p. 377. 



Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 432. Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1886, p. 52. Swinhoe. 



Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 42. Watson, id. 1888, p. 26. Elwes, Trans. Ent. .Soc. 



1888, p. 438. Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 537. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



1890, p. 296. Davidson and Aitken, id. 373, pi. F, figs. 2, 2a (larva and pupa). Watson, 



id. 1891, p. 54. Fergusson, id. p. 446. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 3 (1891). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1892, p. 645. de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 187 (1894). Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



1893, p. 330. Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 129. Betham, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 vii. 1893, p. 425; id. idem, viii. 1894, p. 423. Watson, id. x. 1896, p, 683. Dudgeon, 

 id. (Miscellaneous Notes, p. 1). Davidson, Bell and Aitken, id. 1897, p. 28 (larva and pupa). 

 Elwes, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 306. de Rhe-Philipe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. 

 1898, p. 602 ; id. idem, xiv. 1902, p. 493. Nurse, id. p. 513. Leslie and Evans, id. xiv. 

 1903, p. 677. Aitken and Comber, id. xv. 1903, p. 53. Hannyngton, id. xx. 1910, p. 370. 

 Evans, id. p. 390. 



Hesperia ericus, Fabricius, I.e. p. 532, $ (1775). Aurivillius, Ent. Tidsk. 1897, p. 150. 

 . Papilio ladon, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 284, fig. G, 9 (1782). 

 Hesperia ladon, Latreille, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 749 (1823). 

 Ismene ladon, Westwood, in Doubleday and Hewitsou's Diurn. Lep. p. 515. 

 Calpodes forulus, Hiibner, Verg. bek. Schmett. p. 107 (1816). 

 Ismene ihymbron, Felder, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Math-nat. cl. xl. p. 461, sep. p. 14 (1860). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark brown, with a very slight purple tint. Furewing 

 with ochreous-grey hairs at the base, three semi-hyaline, slender, elongated spots in the 

 disc, in nearly a straight line, the first at the lower end of the cell, the next just below 

 the median vein, and the third, usually the smallest, in the next upper interspace, but 

 these spots are very inconstant, sometimes there are one or two dots outside in con- 

 tinuation of the line, and sometimes there are no spots at all. Hindicing without 

 markings, the abdominal space pale, the basal and abdominal areas with ochreous-grey 



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