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Show 1893.] MR. E. Y. WATSON ON T H E HESPERIIDiE. 85 margin of cell slightly angled at vein 2. Hind tibise with of spurs. Male with two pairs of linear glandular streaks on the upperside of the fore wing, the upper pair on either side of vein 2 at its bifurcation, the lower two immediately beneath these on either side of vein 1. These glandular streaks are most developed in satwa, and least in ogygia. scdwa, de Niceville 1. flavipennis, de Niceville 2. *ogygia, Hewitson 3, Confined to Southern Asia. 25. Genus MATAPA. Matapa, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 163 (1881). Type, aria, Moore. Antennse: club robust, elongate, terminal crook moderate. Palpi: second joint very densely scaled, third joint entirely concealed. Fore wing: rather produced at apex, inner and outer margins sub-equal ; cell less than two-thirds length of costa; discocellulars strongly inwardly oblique; vein 5 only slightly nearer to 4 than to 6 ; vein 3 well before the end of cell, slightly nearer to 4 than to 2 ; vein 2 slightly nearer to base of wing than to end of cell ; lower margin of cell angled at vein 3. Hind wing : outer margin even, slightly excised between veins 3 and 1 b ; vein 7 well before the end of cell; discocellulars faint; vein 5 obsolete ; vein 3 from end of cell; vein 2 more than twice as far from base of wing as from end of cell. Hind tibia? fringed and with two pairs of spurs. Male with an oblique linear glandular streak-on the upperside of the fore wing, extending from vein 3 as far as vein 1. aria, Moore 1. druna, Moore 2. sasivarna, Moore 3. shalgrama, de Niceville 4. Confined to Southern Asia. 26. Genus PADUKA. Paduka, Distant, Rhop. Mai. p. 375 (1886). Type, lebadea, Hewitson (=glandulosa, Dist.). Antennas and palpi much as in Erionota. Fore wing: cell less than two-thirds length of costa ; inner margin longer than outer margin ; vein 12 terminating before end of cell; vein 7 before end of cell; upper discocellular short but distinct, almost parallel with the costa; middle and lower discocellulars almost erect in the same straight line, the middle the longer; vein 3 four times as far from base of wing as from end of cell, and more than twice as far from 2 as from 4 ; vein 2 almost equidistant from 3, and base of wing ather nearer the latter. Hind wing: outer margin sinuated; ein 7 almost equidistant from 8 and 6 ; discocellulars outwardly |