596 



HESPERIID.^. 



before end of cell ; vein 2 almost equidistant from end of cell and base of wing, sligbtly 

 nearer to end of cell. Hind wing: outer margin even, sligbtly excised between veins 2 and 

 1 b ; vein 7 well before the end of cell ; discocellulars very faint, vein 5 wanting ; vein 3 

 close to end of cell, twice as far from 2 as from 4 ; vein 2 considerably nearer to end of cell 

 than to base of wing. In the males of some of the species there is a short and very incon- 

 spicuous glandular streak, situated immediately above the centre of vein 1 on the upperside 

 of the fore wing. Hind tibia; with two pairs of spurs. 



" This genus is apparently confined to the Asiatic and Australian regions, 

 with the exception of coroller from Madagascar, and epictetus from tropical 

 America ; these two species are possibly not correctly assigned to Pndraona, 

 though I am unable to point out how they can be separated from it." 

 {Watson, I. c.) 



Padraona dara. (Plate XL. figs. 13 & 14, vars.) 



lltsperia dara, KoUar^ Hiig. Kaschm. iv. 2, p. 455 (184-8). 

 Pamphila confucius, Felder, Wien. ent. Mon. vi. p. 29 (1862). 

 Pamphila flava, Murray, Ent. Mo. Mag. xii. p. 4 (1875). 



ilcsperia dara, ywc. flava, Fixsen, Kom. sur Lep. iii. p. 318, pi. xiv. fig. 6 (1887). 

 ilc'speria fJava, Pryer, llliop. Nihon. p. 35, pi. x. fig. 17 (1889). 



" Alis supra fuscis, stria latiore cost*, fascia maculaii obliqua macula(iuo subqiiadrata apicis anti- 

 carum flavis ; posticis supra puncto medio fasciaque transversa, subtus totis flavis, fusco 

 subtesselatis, margine interne fusco. — Expans. alar. unc. 1." 



" Habit, in Himalaya." (Kollar, I. c.) 



\'iir. confucius, Fcldcr. "Alis supra saturate fuscis, anticarum vitta costali fasciaque cxtcriore 

 subrcfracta, posticis macula elongata cellula; fasciaque pone discum irregulari utrinquo 

 fulvis, subtus anticarum extimo posticarumcjue jiagina omni pallidc fulvis, his rogiono anali 

 nigricante. cJ . 



" Niiig-j)0. — P. auf/iudi, Linn, affinis, alio postica; vero apud aiigulum analom minus produetic. 

 Magnitudo cadcm." (FcJder, I. c.) 



\ ar. flava, Murray. (Plate XL. fig. 13, $ .) " Alis supra brunnois flavo-notatis : subtus pallidi- 



oribus, prist icis flavis, brunnco-maculatis. Antennis bannvtis. Exp. alar., 1" 2"'-l" 4"'. 

 •• //"/(. Jajionia, 



•• rppcrsidc. Fore wings dark brown : base dusted with yellow ; costal, inner marginal and 

 median yellow streaks from tlx- })aso, tlio latter expanding into a rather large yellow sjjot at 

 the end of cell, above wliich arc two yellow dashes, bordering the first subco.stal nervule. 

 15(!Vond tlic middle is a coiispic-uouH yellow ))in(l, divided into spots by the veins ; t.lu; fourth 

 ami fil'tli are displaced, as in llic^ allied species, and situated mucli nearer the hind niargin. 

 liiiid wing dark brown: a yellow spot near base, and a smaller one above it, near the 

 COMtu ; a eonspiouous yellow band beyond the mid<lle, reaching from submcdian to subcostal 

 nervuroH. 'I'he small costal spot beforonu'iil ioiunl may bo considered as an u])ward continua- 

 tion of llii-i band. 'I'lio l)rown portions ol' li itli win.;s are more or less dusted with yellow. 

 Fringe ji llow , i ul \Mlh fuscous, (^speciall}- on Ibrr w ing. 



