CEYLON BUTTERFLIES. 149 
It is only found where there is a fairly heavy rainfall. It is 
very plentiful in the jungles between Haputale and Ohiya 
(4,000 to 6,000 feet), and occasionally descends as low as 
Haldummulla, but it is very rarely seen below 3,000 feet in 
Uva. In wetter districts it is found at very low elevations, 
and it has been taken at Kottawa, near Galle. It is common 
at Ratnapura, Madampe, and Deniyaya. 
The female seems to be very rarely captured. I have only 
one specimen, which I bred. It differs from the male in 
having the inter-nervular yellow streaks on the fore wing 
much more clearly marked, as they are formed by scales in 
the 2, and by hairsinthe 3. It also differs in having the white 
patch on the lower wing the same size both above and below, 
in the g this patch is mach smaller on the under surface than 
on the upper. The males are fond of settling on wet patches 
on the roads or in the beds of streams. 
“Generally plentiful in heavy jungle land, especially in the 
Matale hills’? (F. M. Mackwood). 
182. ItIADES PARINDA, M.; Papilio parinda, De N.; 
Iliades polymnestor parinda, E.; Papilio polymnestor parinda, 
B.—Peculiar to Ceylon, but is a race of the Indian I. polym- 
nestor. The male differs from polymnestor in the greater 
area of the blue on the upper side. The female differs in 
having the blue area tinged in spots, or sometimes even 
entirely replaced by pale buff. The last form is by far 
the rarest. 
It is a most variable insect. In the male the width of the 
blue band on the fore wing varies greatly, and the post-discal 
spots on the hind wing may be large and conical, as in polym- 
nestor, or small and round. In the female these spots are 
sometimes very much reduced, and the two upper ones may 
be entirely obsolete. 
It is very common at Haldummulla, especially during the 
south-west monsoon (viz., the dry season). I have seen it all 
over the low-country as far north as Mankulam, and I found 
it once in extraordinary abundance at Anuradhapura in 
December. The male is very fond of settling on the sand in 
river beds and on wet roads in the hot weather. The female 
is easiest to catch when laying her eggs. 
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