102 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 



NOTES. 



1. — A new Species of Hesperiidce in Ceylon. — -At the end of 1902, 

 when I was leaving Ceylon for England, Mr. F. M. Mackwood handed 

 to me a species of Abaratha which he was unable to name, and which 

 he wished presented to the British Museum. The Museum had one 

 other similar specimen, captured by the late Major Watson in the 

 Shan States. These insects have recently (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 

 7, vol. XX., p. 432) been named by Colonel Swinhoe Abaratha siamica, 

 Swinhoe, the type being Watson's insect. I remember Mr. E. Ernest 

 Green showing me a similar specimen to Mr. Mackwood's in his 

 collection, which I believe was captured somewhere in the Kandy 

 district ; and I have seen a third specimen in Mr. Oswin Wickwar's 

 collection captured at Ratigalla. Mr. Mackwood's was taken at 

 Haldummulla ; it is therefore widely distributed and apparently very 

 scarce. Its geographical range is very extraordinary, and the Shan 

 States, so far as I know them, have a far more temperate climate than 

 the Ceylon hills. In all probability, however, it will eventually be 

 discovered in the hill districts of India. 



London, November 30, 1907. N. MANDERS. 



2. Re Mr. F. M. Mackwood's Note in " Spolia Zeylanica" Novem- 

 ber 17, 1907, p. 67.— There must be some error in the date. The 

 electric plant was dismounted some time before the year 1906. 



On an earlier visit I collected a large series of Leocyma, and upon 

 examination of the frenulum found that both males and females 

 were almost equally represented. As the male of L. sericea is readily 

 distinguished from its female by the peculiar form of the front wing, 

 I came to the conclusion that the Diyatalawa species must be 

 L. cygnus, Walk, (now referred to tibialis, Fabr.), a species in which 

 the two sexes have similarly shaped wuags, and on reference to 

 Sir Geo. Hampson my surmise was confirmed. There is apparently 

 no character by which the females of sericea and tibialis can be 

 distinguished from each other. L. sericea proper (or at any rate 

 the male of the species) appears to be extremely scarce. During 

 twenty- six years' collecting in Ceylon I have taken only a single 

 specimen, and that one was captured in Colombo. What I take to 

 be L. tibialis is abundant at certain seasons in Kandy. 



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