530 



THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLOX. 



Female. Upperside pale violaceous-brown. Forewing with black cell-liues anri 

 marks below tlic cell ; a transverse discal broad band of irregular-sliaped purplish 

 hyaline-white spots, each spot acutely concave on its outer margin ; also a submar- 

 ginal row of ill-defined whitish dentate spots : hindwing with two curved discal rows 

 of indistinct wiute dentate spots bordered with parallel inner darker brown dentate 

 marks ; cell marks indistinct. 



Expanse, <S 2\, ? 2J inches. 



Ceylon. In Coll. British Museum. 



Family LYCiENIDiE. 



NACADUBA ARDATES. 



Nacadiiha Ardates (Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 90). 



Mr. E. E. Green informs me, in a letter dated July 19th, 1S8G, that "the 

 tailless form of N. Ardates differs distinctly in its habits from the taibd form, 

 sporting about in large clouds round the Madras-thorn trees in Colo.nbo. The 

 specimens of Anhifi's that I catch up-country are never seen but singly or in pairs, 

 and have a more hesitating fliglit. In all my specimens the sinuous white lines on 

 the underside are very much broader and more distinct than those of Ardates. The 

 female also differs in having a very much smaller area of blue on the forewing, 

 in some specimens the colouring being confined to 3 or 4 blue scales alone. Ardates 

 is on the wing, up-country, during most months of the year. I have only been 

 in Colombo during the spring months, when I caught this tailless form, so that I 

 am unable to speak positively of its period of flight." 



Genus APHN^US (Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 105). 

 APHN.5:U3 NUBILTJS (Plate 210, Fig. 1, la h, S ?). 



Nearest to A. lazularhi. Male and female smaller. Upperside paler, the basal 

 area and hindwing of a duller blue in the male, iron-grey in the female ; anal lobes 

 reddish-brown with ill-defined black spots. Underside of male ochreous, more red 

 in the female ; bands not prominent, reddish, narrower, similarly disposed except 

 the short upper discal band on the forewing being composed of two well-separated 

 portions, the marginal line composed of indistinct narrow points, and the second 

 subbasal band on the hindwing being composed of three short separated portions, 

 the lowest not extending to the end of the middle band. 



EKpanse c ? ItV inch. 



Ceylon. "Wattegama; May " (3/flc/.-H-oo(/). 



