SPOLIA ZETLANICA. 



ON SOME ABERRATIONS OF CEYLON BUTTERFLIES. 



By E. Ernest Green, F.E.S., F.Z.S., 



Entomologist to the Government of Ceylon. 

 (With two Plates.) 



rr^HE aberratioiis here described have (with the exception 

 JL of Nos. 1 and 11) been deposited in the collection of the 

 Colombo Museum. I take this opportunity of thanking 

 Miss Black and Messrs. Ormiston, de Mowbray, and Saunder 

 for their generous donations, and Mr. John Pole for the loan 

 of his specimens. 



1. Mycalesis (Orsotriosna) meda, Fabr., race mandata, 

 Moore. 6 



PL II., fig. 8. 



Captured at Nawalapitiya by Mr. J. Pole. 



The underside lacks the usual sharply-defined white band. 

 Its position is indicated only by a paler brown line on the 

 fore wing and a diffused whitish band on the hind wing. In 

 this character it approaches the dry season form of the typical 

 Indian race {meda) in which — according to Bingham — the 

 transverse white band on the underside is sometimes obsoles- 

 cent. The Ceylon race (mandata) differs from meda " in the 

 white discal band on the underside, being very much broader 

 and proportionately more attenuate apically." 



(In coU. John Pole.) 



B 6(2)13 



