38 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
b) 
the British Museum are labelled “ Trincomalee, Ceylon.’ 
Evans restricts it to the Andamans and Northern India. 
It differs from epius as follows: Much darker ground 
colour, no white spot on fore wing of 3, and only a slight pale 
patch on 9. 
S. epius varies considerably in the size of the white patch, 
especially the female, but [ have not yet come across a 
specimen answering the description of nubilus. I have, 
however, no specimens from the dry zone, and this form may 
occur there. 
74. Mucispa MALAYA, B. & E.; Megisba thwaites:s, M— 
Found in Southern Asia. 
In India two forms exist : tailed and tailless. In Ceylon 
none have tails. 
The upper side does not vary much, though the white patch 
is occasionally rather indistinct. The under side is variable, 
and the spot in the cell of the fore wing is often wanting in the 
female. 
The male is very abundant at times in the low-country of 
Uva, and may be found in dozens settled on wet sand in river 
beds or on wet roads. 
The female, which has more rounded wings, is much scarcer. 
Single specimens may be taken at Haldummulla all the year 
round, but I have no notes of its capture above 4,000 feet. 
Other localities : Galle, Kegalla, Jaffna, ‘l'rincomalee, &c. 
** Colombo to Kandy, Ratnapura” (F. M. Mackwood). 
75. CHILADES LAIus, B. & E.; Chilades rarunana, M— 
Also in India, China, Formosa, &c¢. 
Varunana is the wet seas6én form. Both dry and wet 
season forms are very common almost everywhere in Ceylon. 
The dry season forms (with clouded brown patch on under side 
of lower wing) are rather scarcer than the others, but both 
fly together. 
The ¢ varies very much in the amount of blue. 
Can be taken all the year round at Haldummulla, but is 
only abundant here during the north-east monsoon flights, 
when it is occasionally the commonest blue for a week or two. 
I have taken it evervwhere up to 6,000 feet. It is plentiful 
at Nuwara Eliya at times. 
