PADRAONA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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(North China). In Japan there are two forms presumably corresponding to different seasons. Leech at least 
states that only 1 species occurs in Japan: flava Murr. (170 h). Mabille describes a ,,japonicci“ from there, flava. 
There exist in fact two Jam-forms in Japan, which are probably seasonal forms and extraordinarily separated 
in size. The small one with a lighter hindwing beneath I took in September in numbers near Yokohama, the 
other one in early summer in the district of Hiago. Mabille has not mentioned this difference in Yol. I; he unites 
his form japonica with flava. The name can, however, be saved by leaving the name japonica Mob. (170 h) japonica. 
to the small antumnal form, and the name flava Murr. to the large summer-form. In order to illustrate the 
very conspicuous difference of the two forms, I have figured them next to each other. — dara is immensely 
common in Hongkong, where swarms of them collect around the blossoms of Lantana hybrida; the form occurring angustata. 
there, which seems to approximate the Formosan form (angustata Matsum.) is an intermediate form between 
the two Japanese forms; the yellow subbasal spot in the basal black of the hindwing above is very small or 
disappears entirely, the ground-colour of the hindwing beneath is very dark in specimens from the rainy season 
(August), with a glaring yellow median band. — From the Philippines there come large specimens, the identity 
of which with nitida Mob. (170 i) Fbuhstoreer considers to be possible *). The Philippinic form which we nitida. 
figure from Camiguin is very large and is allied to confucius as well as to the large Japanese form. — ahastinaFYa.sk ahastina. 
from Borneo, resembles the following form, but it has broader and darker ochreous bands on all the wings. 
— moesoides Btlr. (170 i), from Malacca, is very similar to Hongkong-specimens, and as it rains here almost moesoides. 
throughout the year, probably no real dry season forms are developed at all; specimens I took in January and 
such as I took in June near Singapore are of quite the same sizes. — gartda Fruhst., from Nias, is smaller than ganda. 
nearly all the others; the dark ochreous median bands of both wings are narrower than in maesoides from Sumatra 
or Malacca. — trachala Mob. (= tanya Fruhst .) (170 h, i), from Java, has light yellowish-green hindwings trachala. 
beneath. — sapitana Fruhst ., from Lombok, is an intermediate form between ahastina and tanya, with a broader sapitana. 
band than in tanya , but a narrower one than in the Borneo form. — In Ceylon there occur again two forms: 
one being allied to maesoides and one with a light yellow under surface and broad yellow bands; pseudoniesa pseudome- 
Mr. ( = zatilla Plotz) (170 i). — Larva green with a brown or brick-coloured red head showing dark markings, 
on Paspalum conjugatum; pupa light yellowish, yielding the imago after about 10 days. Common. 
P. hefaerus Mob. (170 i). In Semper’s collection, from which Mabille presumably described his Jietaerus. 
hetaerus, there are insects of this name, which have nothing to do with the Jam-forms, but which represent 
the gola-iorm there. They have an entirely black cell of the forewing, a densely black marginal band of the 
forewing, proximally almost straightly edged, and on the $ hindwing beneath, behind the rather inconspicuous 
median band, an arcuate row of submarginal nebulous spots; it can hardly be separated from the following 
species. 
P. gola Mr. (= goloides Mr.) (170 i) is a common Indian species, described from the Andamans, but go la. 
extending up to the Himalaya and in Kiu-Kiang in Central China penetrating close to the palearctic southern 
frontier, goloides (171 a) is only the name for specimens from Ceylon, which do not differ essentially from 
the South-Indian ones. — taxilus Mab. (= fabriolata Plotz) (171 i), from Java, exhibit the broadest yellow taxilus. 
median bands above; — in nipata Fruhst., from Sumba, Bali, and Sumbawa, the bands are just as broad but nipata. 
darker yellow. — akar Mob., from the Philippines and Palawan, may be synonymous with hetaerus, just like akar. 
pseudolus Mab. refers to specimens of the Javanese form. alfurus Plotz (171 a) is the rather small Celehic alfurus. 
form with very dark yellow and irregular yellow bands of the forewing. — paragola Nic. is presumably paragola. 
only the representative of the species in Sumatra and Borneo; it has the size of typical gola, but on the 
hindwing beneath it is black covered with fine small yellow scales, and with a yellow almost oval median 
spot which is distinctly defined. locus Plotz, the patria of which is not stated, is presumably only a somewhat locus. 
large $ of the preceding form with very light median bands, the dark marking particularly beneath is torn 
and crossed by the light veins. — rajagriha Fruhst. (171 a), from Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo, is above almost rajagriha. 
exactly like the Philippinic specimens, but beneath the ground-colour of the hindwing is more uniformly blackish, 
not so much speckled. - trishua, from Nias, resembles Sumatran .specimens,’ but the yellow median bands trishua. 
above are broader, and the hindwing beneath is more effaced, with reduced markings. —• Larva light green 
with a whitish head marked with dark; on Imperata arundinacea and Paspalum conjugatum; pupa green with 
4 light longitudinal lines, the apex of the head shaped like a snout. Less common than dara. 
P. fitjiensis Mab. has remained unknown. Frithstorfer places it to Telicota, and it is said to be jitjiensis. 
allied to gola, though at once discernible by the shape of the wings and by the under surface. Fidji Islands. 
P. dilutior Elw. (168 i) is quite similar to dara, but the yellow places above are more creamy, the dilutior. 
yellow spots reduced in size; hindwing beneath more greenish-yellow owing to its scanty coating with yellow 
scales on the black underground. Pulo Laut, Borneo. 
*) Fruhstorfer thinks it also possible that it coincides with hetaerus Mab., what, however, a glance at our figure 
proves to be incorrect. 
