1894.] L. dc Niceville — Butterflies from the Lido-Malayan reyion. ^3 



generously presented me with two. The species appears to me to come 

 into the genus Erynnis of Schi-auk, of which the type is E. comma, 

 Linnseus, the British " Small Skipper." The shape and markings of the 

 two species is very similar, hut the male of E. dimila has the ochreous 

 ground-colour of the upperside much more extensive than in E. comma, 

 especially so on the hind wing ; the spots on the underside of both 

 wings are also more prominent, larger, and whiter than in E. comma. 

 The club of the antenna is somewhat differently shaped, the terminal 

 portion or apex in E. dimila being considerably longer than in E. comma. 

 Since the above was in type, I have received Part V of Mr. Leech's 

 " Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea," in which a single male of 

 E. dimila is recorded from Western China and duly figured. If this 

 specimen is really typical (the plate in which it is figured has not as 

 jet been published), it greatly extends the range of the species. Mr. 

 Leech considers E. dimila to be a " var." only of E. comma, Linnreus, 

 and records the parent species from Europe, Amurland. Corea, Japan, 

 N.-W. Himalayas, N. and W. China. 



44. Padraona payor, n. sp., Plate IV, Fig. 8, c?. 



Habitat : Battak Mountains, N.-E. Sumatra. 



Expanse : <?, 1*2 to 1'3 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, holh xoings shining black tinged 

 with bronzy. Cilia golden-orange, broadest towards the anal angle of 

 the hindwing, gradually becoming dusky as the apex of the forewing is 

 reached in some specimens. Forewing with an orange streak on the 

 basal two-thirds of the costa, widening out at the end of the discoidal 

 cell, crossed by the black costal and subcostal veins ; an orange streak 

 on the basal two-thirds of the inner margin ; a discal straight series 

 of seven orange spots, extending fi-om the costa to the submedian 

 nervure, the series broken between the third and fourth spots from 

 the costa ; the three uppermost spots linear, small, increasing ; the 

 fourth in the second median interspace quadrangular ; the fifth in the 

 first median interspace also quadrangular, but twice as large as the one 

 anterior to it ; two spots in the submedian interspace, the anterior one 

 very small. Hindwing with some orange streaks from the base reachino' 

 to the middle of the wing formed of long setas ; a transverse band of 

 five orange spots across the middle of the disc. Underside, loth wings 

 rich dark brownish-orange. Foreicing with the posterior half black • 

 a pi'ominent oblique orange-yellow streak at the end of the cell ; the 

 discal series of spots as above, except that the four posterior ones are 

 larger than on the upperside, the two posteriormost conjoined. Hind- 

 wing with a curved discal series of five spots, the four anterior ones are 



