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They are, so far as I am aware, only common in one very 
limited area in Ceylon, viz., a stretch of quartzy patana, 
reaching from Ranungahawa, four miles below Haldumimulla, 
to Kumbukkan (25 to 30 miles). 
This patana crosses the Wellawaya-Haldummulla road near 
the 127th milepost ; the butterfly can nearly always be taken 
there. I have found it abundant there in March, May, and 
August, and at other parts of the patana in July and November. 
36. DopHua EVELINA, M., B., & E.; Huthalia evelina, De 
N.—Peculiar to Ceylon, but very near PD. laudabilis of 
Southern India. 
Occasionally very common in parts of the low-country of 
Uva, but very rarely comes above 2,000 feet. It is fond of 
settling in wet sand on the river beds, or where sap is exuding 
from a tree, and both sexes come very readily to toddy. 
The largest numbers I have ever seen were at Hambegama 
tank in June. It is not rare at Wellawaya, and I have taken 
it once at Haldummulla, 2,500 feet. Very plentiful at the hot 
springs near Trincomalee in November. 
“ Anuradhapura, Labugama, Ratnapura”’ (F.M.Mackwood). 
37. EUTHALIA LUBENTINA.—Also found in India, Burma, 
Malaya, China, &c. 
The Ceylon race is now said to be distinct, and has been 
named psittacus. 
The larva feeds on Loranthus, and the insect is nearly as 
widely distributed as the food plant, but it seems to be common 
nowhere. I have taken it on fallen nutmegs near Galle, in 
sandy river beds in the low-country of Uva, on a Duranta 
hedge in my garden (3,000 feet),,and in jungle above Haputale 
(over 5,000 feet). I have specimens from Kandy and Ratna- 
pura, and know of its capture at Badulla. 
The sexes seem to occur in about equal numbers, and both 
come to sugar, or settle on wet sand. In this latter character- 
istic the Huthalias differ from the majority of Ceylon butter- 
flies, as, in other genera, those settling on wet roads er in 
sandy river beds are almost invariably males. Appias, 
Catopsilia, and Libythea are the only others I can remember 
that agree with the Euthalias in this respect. 
“* Comes to fallen fruit under lime trees ” (F. M. Mackwood), 
