10 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
The wet and dry season forms fly together here, but all my 
Elpitiya specimens are wet season. 
Varies very greatly in the ocelli, both on upper and under 
sides, and seems to grade into the next species (C’. polydecta). 
Comes to sugar occasionally, 
15. CALYSISME POLYDECTA, De N.; Calysisme mineus, M. ; 
Calysisme mineus polydecta, B. & E.—Also found in Southern 
and Central India. Bingham says: ‘There are no constant 
characters by which this race may be distinguished from M. 
mineus.”’ Common in grass by the road sides, but especially 
an insect of the patanas. Those taken on patanas in Uva, 
from 500 to 2,000 feet elevation, are usually larger and more 
conspicuously marked than those from higher elevations. 
’ I have no specimens from outside the Province of Uva, and 
have no notes of its occurrence, but believe it occurs everywhere 
in the hills. 
It is very easy to breed, as the females lay eggs freely in 
captivity. zs 
“ Ratnapura and Kandy.”’ (Ff. M. Mackwood). 
16. CALYSISME suBDITA, B.; Calysisme perseoides subdita,: 
E.—Also found in Southern’ India. Not mentioned by 
Moore, as it only differs from polydecta in the sex mark ‘of 
the male being much larger, and this was not regarded as a. 
distinguishing mark when the “ Lepidoptera of Ceylon *”* was 
published. 
Common on the road sides at Haldummulla, especially in 
May, June, and July, but-I havenot yet taken it above 3,000 
feet. 
- It is the only Calysisme Inhave taken in the Northern 
Province. It is common at Anuradhapura, and occurs 
sparingly in the Jaffna Peninsula. Rare at Galle. 
It seems to come to sugar more readily than perseus or 
polydecta, and.is very easy to breed. 
“ Kandy and Ratnapura’”’ (F. M. Mackwood). 
The last three species are exceedingly difficult to distinguish. 
‘The males of perseus and polydecta have a small dark brown 
sex mark near the dorsal margin of the under side of the fore 
