CEYLON BUTTERFLIES. 4] 
the foot of the flower bud” (F. M. Mackwood in “ Spolia 
Zeylanica,” Vol. X., Part XXXVI.). 
“ Taken also in Kandy District ” (F. M. Mackwood). 
81. Cyaninis Limpata, B. & E.; Cyaniris limbatus, De 
N.—Also in India and Sumatra. Not mentioned by Moore. 
Not common at Haldummulla. The male settles on wet 
roads in April, May, September, and October. The female 
is a great rarity. I have never taken the males anywhere 
else than at Haldummulla, but I have taken the females at 
Haputale and Ohiya as well. 
The male is intermediate between lanka and. singalensis. 
The upper side is much darker than singalensis, but not so 
dark as lanka. The marginal spots on the under side in both 
sexes on both wings are enclosed in a lunular gray line in 
limbata and singalensis ; this is absent in lanka. The upper 
side of the female is very distinct from either 2 lanka or 
singalensis. 
“ $ taken at Kandy, Pundalu-oya, and Maskeliya ” (F. M. 
Mackwood). 
$2. ZizERA Lysimon, B. & K.; Zizera karsandra, M.—Also 
in Europe, Africa, Southern Asia, and Australia. 
“Var. karsandra, Moore, is a pale form of lysimon”’ 
(Bingham). 
It very closely resembles Z. indica, but can be distinguished 
by the presence of a black spot in the cell on under side of 
fore wing. 
I have a curious variety, of which I took four specimens on 
a small patch of grass on one day, in which there is a quite 
irregular dusting of small black spots, ringed with white, 
between the discocellular streak and the line of discal spots. 
One specimen has four of these spots on one wing and three 
on the other. In April, 1916, I took a g Z. gaika showing the 
same aberration. 
Specimens from Jaffna have the marginal bands and spots 
very clearly defined, and one specimen taken there, a female, 
measures 26 mm. in expanse. 
‘ommon everywhere in short grass from sea level to 
5,000 feet at least. It occurs all the year round here, but is 
commonest in August and September. 
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