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the two spots in the discoidal cell of the forewing placed nearer the base 

 of the wing, the inner edge of the discal spot in the first median inter- 

 space being much nearer the outer than the inner edge of the spots in 

 the cell than in the Burmese specimens, in the latter they are more 

 immediately anterior to the large discal spot, the inner edge of the 

 three spots being almost in a straight line and perpendicular to the. 

 inner margin. 



27. Pirdana distanti, Staudinger, Plate II, Figs. 16, e? ; 13, 9 . 

 P. (Hesperia) distanti, Staudinger, Iris, vol. ii, p. 141 (1889) ; P. pavona, de 

 Niceville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lxiv, pt. 2, p. 540, n. 683 (1896) ; ? P. rudolphei [sic] 

 Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond,, 1892, p. 648. 



Habitat : Malacca ; North Borneo {Staudinger') ; Karen Hills ; 

 Perak {Elwes) ; Perak, Malay Peninsula; N.-E. Sumatra; Java. 



I have described this species very fully in the paper above quoted, 

 so it is unnecessary to redescribe it here, but I take the opportunity to 

 figure it now. 



Dr. 0. Staudinger in Iris, vol. ii, p. 141 (1889), describes a Pirdana 

 (Hesperia) distanti from a female from Malacca, which is the same 

 specimen which was identified by Hewitson as Hesperia ismene, Felder, 

 and by Distant as the male (probably) of Pirdana hyela, Hewitson. 

 From Staudinger's description of this specimen P. distanti differs from 

 P. pavona in having the upperside " dull dark smoke-brown, consequent- 

 ly quite different from the black, and green in the basal area, of 

 P. hyela." But the male of P. pavona (not the female) agrees with 

 this description, the female P. pavona agreeing with the same sex of all 

 the species of the genus known to me in having the basal areas of both 

 wings on the upperside glossed with deep shining steel bluish-green. I 

 should say therefore that Distant was right in considering the type of 

 P. distanti to be a male and not a female as Staudinger says it is ; if 

 Distant is right my P. pavona will sink as a synonym of P. distanti. But 

 should the type of P. distanti be a female, my species will stand, as the 

 female of P. pavona is quite distinct from the female of P. distanti. 



P.S. Since the above was in type, Dr. Staudinger has most kindly 

 sent me a coloured drawing of the type of his species, which proves to 

 be the male of my P. pavona, the latter name therefore sinking as a 

 synonym. He writes to me that he has another specimen 'from North 

 Borneo exactly like the type, and one other from Preanger, West Java, 

 which is a little different. 



28. Padraona paragola, de Niceville, Plate IV, Figs. 25, c? ; 31, 9 . 

 P. paragola, de Niceville, Joarn. A. S. B., vol. lxiv, pfc. 2, p. 546, n. 715 (1896). 



Habitat : N.-E. Sumatra. 



Having described this species very fully in the paper quoted above 



