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male and two female examples, which were received from Kiihn as 

 Hesperia flavovittata, Latreille, described from New Holland, with which 

 description as far as it goes the specimens agree fairly well, but 

 Mr. W. H. Miskin in his Syn. Cat. of the Lep. Rhop. of Australia places 

 H. flavovittata in the genus Taractrocera, distinguished by its short 

 round-clubbed antennae, while the species described above has the longer 

 pointed-clubbed antennae of the genus Padraona. It appears to be quite 

 a distinct species, but has probably already been named, indeed, in 

 de Niceville's collection from Mackay in North Australia are exactly 

 similar specimens, which agree with Hewitson's description of 

 " Ancyloxipha " agraulia, from the same region. The correct spelling 

 of the genus is Ancyloxypha. Miskin places the latter species in the 

 genus Apaustus, Hiibner, and gives Pamphila sunias, Felder (see no. 117 

 above) as a synonym, though it has eight years' priority. 



121. Padraona, sp. 3. 



Kabitat : Ke Isles. 



Expanse: d,S; $, '9 of an inch. 



Description: Male. Upperside, both wings black, with yellow 

 markings ; cilia of the forewing black anteriorly, becoming yellow 

 posteriorly, of the hindwing yellow, the terminations of the median 

 nervules streaked with black. Forewing with a triangular yellow 

 streak from the base of the wing to beyond the middle, not quite reach- 

 ing the costa anteriorly, bounded by the submedian nervure and second 

 median nervule posteriorly, its outer edge inwardly oblique ; three con- 

 joined subapical spots, the anteriormost a mere dot, the second 

 twice as large as the one before it, the third twice as large as the 

 second ; a discal band consisting of five portions, separated from the 

 subapical spots, the two anteriormost portions very small, the third 

 elongated, occupying the base of the second median interspace, the 

 fourth of the same length as the third, occupying the middle of the first 

 median interspace, the fifth very narrow and linear, the outer edge of 

 this band is nearly even, the inner edge very irregular, owing to the 

 third and fourth spots being so much broader than the others ; a 

 yellow streak occupying the basal half of the sutural area. Hindwing 

 with a small yellow spot in the middle of the discoidal cell ; a broad 

 discal band occupying the middle of the wing, both edges irregular. 

 Underside, forewing marked as above, but the apex is broadly yellow. 

 Hindwing yellow throughout, except a broad black streak in the sub- 

 median interspace; the spot in the cell and the discal band defined 

 outwardly by a narrow black line ; an anteciliary black thread. 



