CEYLON BUTTERFLIES. 183 
Taken at Kandy and Ratnapura in July ” (F. M. Mack- 
wood). 
227. PaRNARA BADA.—Found also in India, Malaya, 
Burma, China, and Japan. Evans gives guttatus as a distinct 
species from Chitral and Assam. 
This is the smallest Parnara in Ceylon. It can be 
distinguished from cingala, which is only slightly larger, by 
the absence of the spot in interspace 1. The spots vary 
greatly in size, shape, and number. On the fore wing there 
are normally spots in 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8, but those in 4 and 8 
are often absent. I have one specimen with a spot in 5, and 
two with a linear spot on the lower edge of the cell, near the 
base of vein 3. On the hind wing there is normally a row of 
four spots in interspaces 2 to 5, visible both above and. below. 
I have two specimens in which the hind wing is quite unspotted 
above or below, and several with only one to three spots 
below. I have also two or three with five discal spots in 
interspaces 2 to 6, and one in the cell. The spot in 6 is never 
in line with the others. 
For comparison with Indian specimens, I give a figure of the 
prehensores. PI. 7, figs. 5 to 7. 
It is not very common at Haldummulla, but becomes much 
more abundant at lower elevations, being widely distributed 
through the low-country. I have taken it at Wellawaya, 
Hambantota, Galle, Vavuniya, Jaffna, Mannar, &c., and have 
specimens from Kandy. 
228. PARNARA CINGALA, M.; Parnara colaca, K.—P. colaca 
is also found in India. 
Moore thought it distinct from colaca, but did not state in 
the ‘“‘ Lepidoptera of Ceylon” how it differed. I give a 
sketch of the prehensores for comparison with Indian speci- 
mens. PI. 7, figs. 8 to 10. 
It varies much less than the last species (bada), the main 
variation being in the number of spots in the cell ; these may 
be two,.one, or none ; all varieties seem to be equally common 
in both sexes. The number of the spots on the fore wing 
outside the cell never seems to vary, being always one each in 
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8. On the hind wing below there are 
always three large spots in 2, 3, and 5, and usually a smaller 
