CEYLON BUTTERFLIES. 163 
of Uva and at Trincomalee and Vavuniya. The males are 
most frequently found settled on the wet sand in river beds 
or on wet roads ; the females visit flowers, and seldom fly far 
if disturbed. 
The clasps are figured on PI. 3, figs. 9 and 10. 
** Common in the low-country up to Jafina ” (F. M. Mack- 
wood). 
199. Caprona staAmica.—Not mentioned in any list that 
J know of Ceylon Butterflies. 
Elwes and Edwards, in their analytical table of the genus 
Caprona, divide the species by two important characters : Ist, 
the possession of “‘ a terminal row of pale spots on the fore 
wing above’; and 2nd, the presence of “a hyaline spot in 
the cell of the fore wing above, near the middle.” Neither of 
these help to place this species. The row of pale spots is 
sometimes very prominent, but in other specimens it is equally 
obscure. The spotin the middle of the cell is usually present, 
but I have specimens without it. The other hyaline spots 
seem fairly constant, but the large one at the end of the cell 
is sometimes divided into two very small ones. The pre- 
apical spots usually number 5, but they are sometimes reduced 
to 3. Asa rule, the under side of the hind wing is pure white, 
but it is occasionally tinged with ochreous. The ring of small 
black spots round the dise number 10 in all my specimens. 
In general appearance it somewhat resembles Elwes and 
Edwards’ figure of saraya. Evans thinks saraya is a dry 
season form of ransonnettii. If he is right, it seems probable 
that siamica bears the same relationship, as the clasps differ 
from those of ransonnettii in almost exactly the same way as 
those of saraya. See Pl. 3, figs. 11 and 12. 
I found it fairly common many years ago in chenas at 
1,000 to 2,500 feet elevation below Haldummulla, but I have 
not been able to work this country lately. It is not rare at 
Wellawaya, and a native collector caught fourteen specimens 
there at the beginning of November, 1917 (commencement of 
rainy season). It does not seem to settle on wet sand, like 
C. ransonnettii. I have not yet caught a female. 
“A scarce fly. Caught in Kandy and Haragam January, 
July, August, October, and November” (F. M. Mackwood). 
