438 Elwes & de Niceville — List of the Le}ndo2')terous [No. 5, 



They differ from a long series of P. anttcrates, Donbleday, in Mr. de 

 Nicevilie's collection taken by Mr. Otto Moller this spring in Sikkim, in 

 having the discal black band on the npperside of the hindwing always 

 continuous, instead of being always more or less macular though 

 variable. 



147. Papilio {Orpheides) erithonius. 



P. erithonius, Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. iii, pi. ccxxxii, figs. A, B (1779). 

 One or two males from Tavoy. 



148. Ornithoptera rhadamanthus. 



0. rhadamanthus, Boisdnval, Sp. Gen. Lep., vol. i, p. 180, n. 8 (1836). 

 Two males from Sinbyoodine and one from Tavoy. 



*149. Leptocircus meges. 



Papilio meges, Zinken-Sommer, Nova Acta Ac. Nat. Cur., vol. xv, p. 161, n. 14, 

 pi. XV, fig. 8, male (1831). 



Leptocircus virescens, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 841. 

 Several males from Tavoy and Ponsekai- To be distinguished from 

 specimens of L. curius, Fabricius, from Assam, by the subbasal band 

 across both wings being pale green instead of white. 



Family HESPERIID^. 



Choaspes benjaminii, Guerin. 

 Ismene henjamini, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 841. 



150. PiRDANA RUDOLPHII, n. sp., PL XX, Fig. 6, d. 



cf Upperside, both wings rich brown, tinted with vinaceous. Forewing 

 with the cilia concolorous with the rest of the wing. Hindwing with the 

 cilia orange from the anal angle to the first median nervule, broadest in 

 the middle, from the first median nervuje to the apex concolorous with the 

 wing. Underside, both wings with the ground-colour as above. Forewing 

 with the inner margin broadly to the first median nervule pale ochreous, 

 the costa and upper half of the cell and all the veins except the median 

 and submedian nervures and the first median nervule streaked with 

 bronzy-green. Hindwing with the cell and all the veins and abdominal 

 margin streaked with bronzy-green, the cilia at the anal angle orange as 

 above, but rather broader. Head and body above concolorous with the 

 wings on the upperside, paljpi, thorax, and underside of body orange. 

 AntenncB dark brown throughout except the tip of the club on the under- 

 side which is paler. No secondary sexual characters. 



Expanse ; ^, 2 00 ; $, 2-25 inches. 



Allied to Hesperia ismene, Felder (Reise Nov., Lep., vol. iii, p. 512, 

 n. 894, pi. Ixxiii, figs. 4, 5, male (1867), from Celebes, from which it 

 differs in having the cilia only of the hindwing on both sides at the anal 



