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the ordinary dusky blackish spot in cell of hindwing being distinct ; submarginal 
ocelloid spots more or less developed. 
Eixpanse, 3 2; to 2;%, % 2;% to 3 inches. 
Catrrrittar.—Hlongated, thickened in the middle; head with two long pubes- 
cent red processes; anal segment also with two processes ; colour green, with 
longitudinal and transverse darker lines ; face striped with red. 
Curysatis.—Green. Head and thorax flattened. 
Hasirat.—Ceylon. 
Distripution.—* Found in the Western and Central provinces; in the plains, 
and up to 3000 feet elevation. June to September” (Hutchison, Lep. Ceylon, i. 
p- 16). Mr. E. E. Green obtained it at Pundaloya in January, March, April, May, 
July and October, and at Ramboda, Kandy, in January and April. 
MELANITIS BETHAMI. 
Wer-season Broop (Plate 125, figs. 1, la, b, d 2). 
Melanitis Bethami, de Nicéville, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 451. 
Imaco.—Male. Upperside dusky fuliginous-brown, the outer borders palest ; 
cilia brown. Forewing very slightly angled below the apex; with a well-defined 
subcostal nearly round ochreous patch before the apex, divided by the brown radial 
veinlets. Hindwing unmarked. Underside dark purpurescent-brown, densely and 
uniformly covered with ochreous-cinereous strige; the outer border ferruginous. 
Forewing with four ordinary small obscure white-pupilled ocelli. Hindwing with 
a series of six submarginal prominent ocelli, the upper second minute, the anal 
geminated, the other four nearly equal and much larger, each pupilled with white. 
Female. Upperside. Both wings much paler than in the male. Forewing 
more broadly angled below the apex; with the entire apical area broadly pale 
ochreous, on which is placed a round black spot with white pupil, situated between 
the upper and middle median veinlets, also a minute obsolescent ocellus below it and 
three above it. Hindwing with a small posterior submarginal black spot between 
the middle and lower medians, pupilled with white. Underside. Both wings with 
the ground-colour pale purpurescent-ochreous, densely covered with darker brown 
strigze, the basal area and outer borders of the discal fascia slightly washed with 
pale purpurescent-cinereous ; the ocelli as in the male, but rather larger; the outer 
margins ochreous. J orewing with an obscure ochreous oblique medial and a waved 
discal narrow fascia, and the hindwing with a medial excurved similar fascia, the 
two latter somewhat most defined. Body beneath, and palpi cinereous-ochreous 
speckled ; legs brown; antennz brown, with a pale ochreous tip. 
Expanse, ¢ 2,%, % 3 inches. 
