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Show 1883.] MR. F. MOORE ON LIMNAINA AND EUPLCEINA. 309 16. PADEMMA BURMEISTERI, n. sp. Euplcea burmeisteri, Boisduval, M S . Near to P. crassa ; smaller in size, but of the same colour. Male with a shorter and more slender sericeous streak, the lower inner marginal row of spots of similar size to the outer row and extending to the posterior margin ; hind wing with both rows of marginal spots smaller. Female. Fore wing with the inner row of spots larger than in the male, and also extending to the posterior margin. Expanse 2 | inches. Hab. Saigon, Cochin China ; Upper Tenasserim. In colls. Mons. C. Obertbiir, F. Moore, and British Museum. 17. PADEMMA MASONI. Salpinx masoni, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 823, cf. Euplcea (Salpinx) masoni, Marshall & de Niceville, Butt, of India, p. 64 (1882). Euplcea poggei, Boisd. M S . Hab. British Burmah (Tenasserim). In colls. Brit. Mus. and F. Moore. 18. PADEMMA SINHALA. Euplcea sinhala, Moore, Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xx. p. 45(1877). Isamia sinhala, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 10, pl. 5. fig. 1, cf (1880). Hab. Ceylon. 19. PADEMMA KOLLARI. (Plate XXIX. fig. 9, cf •) Euplcea kollari, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. ii. p. 325, c? (1867). Isamia rothneyi, Moore, Ent. Monthly Mag. 1882, p. 34. Euplcea (Salpinx) sinhala, Marshall & de Niceville, Butt, of India, p. 66, pl. 7. fig- 12, J 2 (1882). Male. Upperside dark olive-brown; basal area pitchy brown ; fore wing with a submarginal row of small whitish spots and a marginal row of smaller spots, both rows decreasing in size towards the costa, and of similar size to those in C. core and C. coroides; sericeous streak short and broad. Hind wing with a pale flesh-coloured discoidal patch ; a submarginal row of oval and a marginal row of smaller whitish spots ; both rows also of similar size to those in the species above cited. Expanse 3| inches. Hab. Barrackpore, near Calcutta (Rothney) ; Malabar (Semper). In coll. F. Moore. A single specimen of this species was recently taken at Barrack-pore, near Calcutta, by Mr. G. A. J. Rothney, who mistook it for the common C. core. Other collectors in the same district doubtless have also been so misled by its resemblance to that common species. Since describing Mr. Rothney's specimen I have had the good |
