14 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
“ Puttalam, Kandy, Ratnapura, common at Lindula ” 
(F. M. Mackwood). 
22. LETHE DARETIS.—Peculiar to Ceylon, and confined to 
high elevations. Personally, I have never taken it below 
4,500 feet. 
It is nearly always to be found settled on the banks where 
the earth has been cut away to make a road, and never very 
far from a bamboo clump. 
If disturbed, it flies away rapidly, but soon settles again. 
Its wings are very fragile, and it is easily damaged by the net. 
It comes readily to toddy, &c. 
February and August are, in my experience, the best months 
for fresh-hatched specimens, but a few may be taken all the 
year round. 
Localities : Nuwara Eliya, Horton Plains, Ohiya, &c. 
23. Ypruima sincaLa, M. & De N.; Ypthima avania 
singala, B.; Thymipa avanta singala, E—Also found in India. 
Moore also gives Y. thora, but it is certainly only a variety. 
It differs only in having a minute sub-apical bi-pupilled ocellus 
on the upper side of the fore wing of the male. 
The number of ocelli on the under side of the hind wing 
varies in my specimens from 4 to 7, and is not always the 
same on both wings. They also vary as much in size as in 
number; but this does not seem to depend on season or 
climate, except that I have only taken a variety with the ocelli 
reduced to mere specks at the highest elevations. 
Specimens from Elpitiya, near Galle, taken during the rains, 
agree very well with those taken at Haldummulla during the 
drought, except that var. thora was proportionately more 
abundant at the lower elevation. 
Common all over the Uva patanas from 500 to over 5,000 
feet; Galaha, near Kandy; and Elpitiya, near Galle. Flies 
all the year round at Haldummulla. 
‘“ Also Galboda and Pundalu-oya ” (F. M. Mackwood). 
24. YprHimaA cEYLonIca, M., De N., & E.; Ypthima 
huebneri ceylonica, B—Also found in Southern India. 
Common everywhere all the year round, especially along 
road sides. The variation in the size of the ocelli in this 
species seems largely to depend on temperature. I have taken 
