﻿104 LEPIDOPTERA INDIGA. 



Chrysalis. — Short, thick ; dorsum medially triangular, front tapering, head- 

 piece ending in two short obtuse points. 

 TvPE.— D. Evelina. 



DOPHLA EVELINA (Plate 228, figs. 1, la, b, c, (? ? ). 



PapiJio Ecelina, StoU, Cramer, Pap. Exot. v. p. 132, pi. 28, fig.s. 2, 2B, ^ (1790). 



Nymphalis Evelina, Godart, Bncycl. Me'th. ix. 401 (1819). 



Adolias Evelina, Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 291 (1850). Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 600. 



Doplila Evelina, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 34, pi. 17, figs. 1, la, ^ (1881). 



Euthulia Evelina, de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 195 (1886), J only. 



Papilio Cicero, Herbst, Nat. Sclimett. vi. p. 130, pi. 140, figs. 3, 4 (J (1793). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark ^nascent sap-green. Cilia dark brown. Both 

 wings with a transverse curved discal obscurely-defined dusky blue-black lunular 

 fascia, which is broadest and angulated at the upper median on the forewing, 

 followed by a much less distinct narrow submarginal and marginal fascia. 

 Forennug also with two discoidal black-lined marks, the upper part of the inner one 

 being centred with vermilion. Rindwing also with a smaller discocellular black- 

 lined mark, and an obscure small inner black spot. Underside olivescent-grey ; 

 both wings crossed by a discal, a submarginal and a marginal partly-confluent 

 pale sap-green lunular fascia. Foreivimj also with discoidal black marks as above, 

 and a small ring below the cell. Eindwing with two discoidal marks and two rings 

 above them, both of which latter and the inner discoidal are centred with 

 vermilion. Body and palpi above dark sap-green ; beneath, and legs olivescent-grey ; 

 antennge brown above, reddish beneath. 



Female. Upperside paler, marked as in the male, the fasciae broader, the edge 

 of the discal fascia on forewing more defined and sinuous. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse, c? 3 to 3^^, ? 4 to 4i-o inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



D[STEIBUTI0N. — " Occurs in the Eastern and Western Provinces of Ceylon, in 

 low country forests, in June. Flight rapid, along forest paths, settling in thick 

 parts of trees, and sometimes on the ground. Shy " (Capt. Hutchinson). "Rather 

 common in the Kottawa forest, but difiicult to capture " (Capt. Wade). " Fairly 

 common in the lower middle sections of Ceylon, and generally found near Mango 

 ti-ees " (F. M. Mackwood, MS. Notes). Col. J. W. Yerbmy obtained several specimens 

 of both sexes in the district of Trincomalee, in October. 



DOPHLA LAIJDABILIS (Plate 229, fig. 1 ; larva and pupa, la, b, c? ? ). 

 Euthalia lanJahtlis, Swinhoe, Aunals of Nat. Hist. 1890, p. 355. 



Imago, — Male. Upperside bright dark senescent blue-green ; with a broad ill- 



