32 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
59. Katirma pHILARcHUS; M.; Kallima horsfield:, B. ; 
Kallima horsfieldi philarchus, K.—-Peculiar to Ceylon, but is 
very near K. horsfieldi of Southern India. It differs in being 
rather larger and of a more brilliant blue, but is subject to 
considerable seasonal variation. 
Rare at Haldummulla, except occasionally in December. 
The flight nearly always starts in Christmas week, and usually 
only lasts a few days. In December, 1914, they arrived 
early in December, and were plentiful for the whole of that 
month, but at Haputale, Ohiya, &c., viz., at a higher elevation, 
they remained in fair numbers till April. During these 
flights they are common on the Horton Plains (7,000 feet), 
but seldom seem to reach Nuwara Eliya. In parts of the 
low-country of Uva they are usually very abundant in July, 
but very few of this brood migrate up-country. They are 
extremely easy to catch, as they cannot refuse toddy, treacle, 
&c., especially mixed with rum. 
They are pursued by Drongoes (Dicrurus leucopygialis), - 
but I have never seen one eaten, the bird almost invariably 
taking a triangular piece out of one of the lower wings. 
Whether he finds this distasteful or not I cannot say, but he 
never seems to continue the pursuit of that individual, though 
the next one to pass is probably treated in the same manner. 
At least 50 per cent. of those taken at sugar in open country 
will be found to have been damaged. The birds seem quite 
unable to see them when settled, though they do not make 
the most of their resemblance to a dead leaf. If settled on 
a twig with the tail towards the base and the fore wing 
well drawn out, the resemblaiice-is perfect ; but they usually 
settle with their heads towards. the base, and the fore wing 
more than half covered by the lower, when the resemblance 
is far inferior. | 
“ Of late fairly plentiful at Kandy and Ratnapura ” (F. M. 
Mackwood). 
60. DoLESCHALLIA BISALTIDE, M.; Doleschallia polibete, De 
N.; Doleschallia bisaltide malabarica, B.; Doleschallia bisaltide 
ceylonica, F.—Evans writes in his list : ‘“ ‘There is not sufficient 
material in the British Museum to judge whether these races 
are worth retaining.” 
