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BIBLA; PADRAONA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
ialantus. 
dschaka. 
turica. 
aliena. 
sangira. 
papyria. 
argina. 
polysema. 
dolon. 
flavovittata. 
anisomor- 
pha. 
lascivia. 
T. talantus Plotz (170 g). This form from Celebes (type in the Munich Museum) represents an archias 
lacking the black oblique, band of the forewing, and might thus also be regarded as a transition from typical 
archias to antalcidas. — dschaka Plotz , from Batavia, is somewhat larger and already shows a nebulous longi¬ 
tudinal band above the hind-margin of the forewing and an under surface with intense dark markings. — turica 
Plotz (i. 1.) is nothing else but a small 9 of nigrolimbata lacking the yellow longitudinal patch above the hind- 
margin; this may be due to the influence of damper habitats; described from Java. — aliena Plotz (170 g). 
I likewise take to be nothing else but a Javanese archias in which the yellow ground-colour at the lower cell- 
angle pierces the black median band of the fore wing. It is very similar to the figure 67 b in Piepers and Snellen’s 
Javanese Lepidoptera and might be a nigrolimbata from a particularly dry habitat, thus contrary to turica. 
- It may be that rectivitta Mob., which is unknown to me, also belongs to this species or ziclea, though the 
author described it in 1878 from Celebes, whereas Elwes did not range it with his Indian Hesperidae and therefore 
probably took it to be a plain ziclea. 
T. sangira Plotz (170 g), from Celebes, does not show any yellow, neither beneath nor above, except 
that the fringes of the hindwings are yellowish. Above it is somewhat like ceramas (171 d), but the small punctiform 
spots are white and those in the hindwing more removed to the centre of the wing. 
37. Genus: Mibla Mab. 
This genus forms the transition from Taractrocera to the Padraona and at the same time the continuation 
of the preceding genus in Australia. It can neither be strictly separated from the preceding nor following group, 
for wich reason the Bibla are sometimes ranged here, sometimes there, the genus being differently composed 
with every author; some authors, for instance Watson, do not acknowledge the genus at all. Separable from 
the Taractrocera by the presence of a stigma. 
B. papyria Bsd. (= celaeno Cox, fumosa Guest., alix Plotz, minimus Misk.) (170 h). The light median 
bands of both wings have become straight stripes of a dull yellowish-white colour. Basal area of forewing 
ochreous; under surface greenish, the median band of the hindwing white. Australia. 
B. argina Plotz (170 h) was regarded as a Syrichthus (= Hesperia), presumably on account of the 
speckled fringes, but it has nothing to do with it. It was recently placed to Anisyntha, because it ought not to 
be placed to Bibla , since it lacks the $ stigma. It is evidently allied to sangira from Celebes, but separated by 
the five spots on the hindwing above not being absent but reduced to hardly noticeable traces; Brisbane. — 
polysema Low., from the Cliillagoe District and Port Darwin, is likewise said to differ from argina in the five 
spots on the hindwing, but undoubtedly Lower did not know Plotz’ original, but only a copy in which these 
spots were probably overlooked. Plotz 1 water-colour which is in my possession exhibits these 5 spots, particularly 
under the magnifying glass, very finely though distinctly. 
B. dolon Plotz (170 h) neither has a real stigma, but only feebly raised small scales on the median 
and submedian. It looks above a little like a Tar. ziclea or dara, but the light discal bands are rectilinear, parallel- 
margined bands. The characteristic under surface corresponds rather to the figure of argina or sangira, containing 
on the dull ochreous ground a few light dots arranged in a bow around a central dot. 
B. flavovittata Latr. (= agraulia Hew., bifasciata Misk.) is above very similar to dolon (170 h), 
but it shows a distinct $ stigma; the under surface is browner, the bands are less distinct. From Perth 
in Western Australia. 
B. anisomorpha Low. is also like dolon, but with a stigma, the submedian band of the hindwing much 
broader. Above similar to dara (Vol. I, pi. 89 g), but dara lacks the stigma; the 9 never shows the oval 
spot on vein 8 of dara. Port Darwin, taken in May and September. 
B. lascivia Bos. is quite similar to flavovittata, but separated by the absence of the marking on the 
hindwing beneath. — Larva on Gramineae (Imperata arundianacea); green with a black head; pupa olive-green, 
later on brownish. Queensland to Victoria and Tasmania, November till February. 
38. Genus: I*a<lraona Mr. 
The genus which is hardly separable from Telicota and the following genera, i. a. contains the most 
common Hesperidae'oi the Indo-Australian Region, being as common as our most common European Adopaea. 
As to the characteristic marks, cf. Vol. I, p. 351. 
dam. P. dara Koll. (Vol. I, pi. 89 g). To what has already been said in Vol. I, p. 351, we may add that 
confucius. the form figured there, owing to its northern patria, is probably to be reckoned to the form Confucius Fldr. 
