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descripiion I am disposed to consider that it is identical with the Japanese 

 form of P. dara, i. e.Jlava, Murray, as that is the only species of Padraona 

 met with in Japan. 



Padraona gola. (Plate XL. fig. 12, s .) 



Pamphila gola, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 594, pi. Iviii. fig. 9, . 



" Male. Upperside dark vinous brown : fore wing with an oblique discal irregular sinuous- 

 bordered golden-yellow band, the band bent before the apex and indented at end of the cell ; 

 hind wing with a median discal golden-yellow band, and a few hairs of the same colour at 

 the base ; cilia edged with golden yellow, front oi head, palpi, and legs golden. Underside 

 with the bands as above : costa and apex of fore wing and the hind wing suffused with 

 yellow ; both wings with a blackish streak at end of cell. 



" Expanse 1 inch. > 



" S. Audamans." {Moore, 1. c.) 



I received one male example from Kiukiang, Central China, where it was 

 captured in June. It is rather more fulvous on upper surface, but in all 

 other respects it agrees with Sikkim specimens. The under surface of second- 

 aries is rather darker than the type in Mr. Moore's collection. 



Elwes says that lie has a specimen from Buxa, Bhotan, which has been 

 identified as P. gola by Mr. Moore. Wood-Mason and de Niceville record 

 thirty-seven specimens in both sexes taken in and around Silcuri, Cacliar, 

 captured between 25th May and 5th August. 



Padraona virgata. (Plate XL. fig. 15, c? .) 



Pamphila virgata, Leech, Entomologist, xxiii. j). 17 (1890). 



Miilf. Dark brown. Primaries have a fulvous streak from base parallel with costa to beyond the 

 middle, this streak is broken up by the subcostal ncrvulosinto linear spots, its outer extremity 

 curving downwards, and terminating directly over four fulvous spots placed in the median and 

 subiiiodiati interspaces, there arc two more or less conihiont yellow dashers in the discoidal 

 cell, and the base and inner margin are streakiul with fulvous scales. Secondaries tinged with 

 fulvous towards base, with some fulvous central dashes. Fringes yellow, chequered with dark 

 brown. Under surface of primaries blackish, with centre spots as above, but the cuslal streak 

 and (liscoiflal spots are not so clearly defined, the a])ical half of outer margin is suffused with 

 yellow, l)u) the bas(! is not sprinkled with yellow scales. 8econdario8 yellow, wit ii some 

 spots at the base, an indistinct central band, and two jiarallel transverse seric's of R|)()t8 

 before the outer margin, black, more or less ()l)scured witli yellow ; the abdominal fold is 

 streaked with blackish. 



Fi iinilr. Similar in ground-colour to the niah^ l)ut the yellow cost al st reak is ill delined, e.\cej)t 

 aliovc 1 ho ono discoidal spot, the central spots are smaller, and all are pale in colour. I'lxpanso 

 30 132 niilliiii. 



