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Haputale and Ohiya, and I have specimens from Maskeliya, 
the hills above Ratnapura, and Kandy. I have taken it as 
low as 3,500 feet at Haldummulla. 
When walking in the jungle near the Mocha Patanas, 
Maskeliya, with the late Mr. John Pole, he pointed out the 
larve to me feeding on a shrub, called by the Sinhalese there 
hik. I have been unable to identify this. The name hik is 
usually given to Odina wodier, a low-country tree. 
The males are nearly always found settled on wet roads or 
in the beds of streams. They are strongly attracted by birds’ 
droppings. The females are difficult to procure. 
“ Found at Kandy, Ramboda, Dolosbage, and Dikoya ” 
(F. M. Mackwood). 
ADDENDA. 
27a. ELYMNIAS MERULA.—Colonel Swinhoe gives this as a 
new species from Ceylon (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., No. 93., 
September, 1915, Vol. XVI., page 171). His description is : 
** ¢ upper side deep black, as dark as HL. hecate, Butler, from 
North Borneo ; fore wing with the costa spotted with blue, 
three blue streaks near the apex, and three sub-marginal blue 
spots in interspaces 2, 3, and 4; hind wing with a slight shade 
of fulvous on the outer margin; outer margins of both wings 
as in hecate. Under side dark chestnut-brown, densely 
striated with pale blue, fore wing with white costal points, 
which become thickly clustered together at the apex ; hind 
wing with a small bluish-white spot below the middle of the 
costa. 
‘ Expanse of wing, 2 8/10 inches. 
* Habitat : Kandy, Ceylon. 
“ Except for the white spot on the hind wings beneath, it 
much resembles hecate.” 
I know nothing of the history of this insect. It is difficult to 
imagine a new species of a large butterfly being discovered at 
Kandy, which is the headquarters of the native collectors, and 
the best worked district in Ceylon. From the description it 
seems possible that it may be a melanism of E. fraterna. It is 
