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PADRAONA GOLOIDES (Plate 71, Fig. 3, 3a). 



Upperside dark purple-brown. Male : forewing -with a golden-yellow oblique 

 discal sinuous band followed by small costal spots before the apez ; base of the costa 

 and cell, and two spots at its end also of the same colour : hindwiug with a medial 

 discal sinuous golden-yellow band, the hairy scales extending to the base also yellow. 

 Cilia golden-yellow. Underside with less distinct markings as above : costa and apex 

 of forewing and the hindwing suffused with yellow. Body and legs golden-yeUow ; 

 palpi and front of thorax beneath saffron-yellow. Female : differs only in the discal 

 band being narrow;- and not having the yellow costal streak. 



Expanse liV inch. 



Nearest alhed to P. Gola. Differis from it on both sides in the narrower discal 

 band of the forewing, the band being also disconnected from the costal spots ; the 

 band of the hindwinof is also narrower. 



" Occurs in same places as preceding " (Hutchison). 

 "Kandy" (Wade). 



" Widely distributed. Sea coast up to 500O feet. Generally January to March " 

 (Machwood). 



PADaAONA M^SOIDES (Plate 71, Fig. 5, 5a). 

 Pamphila Mcesoides, Butler, Trans. Liun. Soc. Lond. 2iid ser. i. p. 554 (1879). 



Upperside vinous olive-brown. Male : forewing with a golden-yellow band 

 along base of costa and within the cell, three small connected subapical spots, a 

 narrow sinuous discal band, and a streak along posterior margin : hindwing with 

 a golden-yellow medial discal sinuous band, a less distinct spot within the cell, and 

 a spot on the costa. Cilia yellow. Underside paler ; marked as above. Female : 

 differs only in having narrower markings and less prominent costal band on the 

 forewing. 



Expanse, ^ i^jj-j ? 1 inch. 



' " Low country " (Mackwood). 



Genus AMPITTIA. 



Wings shorter, broader, and less triangular than in Pamphila. Male with a 

 very short glandular streak below the cell. Body narrower ; terminal joint of palpi 

 shorter, • cylindiical and less pointed. Antenna with a much slenderer and more 

 pointed club. 



Type, A. Maro. 



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