ii6 NYMPHALID.^. NYMPHALIN^. CIRRHOCHROA. 



In the case of C. lanka the Ceylon race only has been named, but there is in South India 

 a local race which stands in precisely the same relation to C. lanka as C, thais does to C. cog- 

 tiata, for which I here propose the name C. relata. 



In C. s-uinhoci the differences are less well-marked. I have specimens from Ceylon which 

 are referrable to this species, but they do not appear sufficiently distinct to constitute a separate 

 subspecies. 



411- Oirrhochroa lanka, Moore. 



Cirrochroa lanka, Moore, Pioc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, p. 557 ; idem, id., Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 63, pi. xxiii, 

 figs. 4, i,a (i88o) 



Habitat : Ceylon. 



Expanse: <?,2'2to2'5; 9 . 2-5 to 28 inches. 



Description: "Male. Upperside bright ferruginous. /b/vw/«o- with medial transverse 

 black line, which is oblique in front of the cell, nearly obsolete hindward ; marginal band 

 black, traversed by an inner row of ferruginous lunules, the outer series being more or less obso- 

 lete. Hind'ii'iug with the white spot on the anterior margin large, the median transverse line 

 from it faintly defined ; the parallel row of black spots, outer and second marginal lines pro- 

 minent. Underside dusky ferruginous, somewhat fulvous at the base, glossed with purple- 

 grey ; a broad transverse medial prominent purple-white glossy band ; indistinct lunules on 

 outer margin of wings with purple-grey borders ; black spots on hijidiving prominent." 

 {Moore, 1. c. in Proc Zool. Soc. Lond. ) Mr. Moore also records it from South India. 



In Ceylon it occurs in the " Western, Central, and Southern Provinces ; plains and up to 

 6,000 feet in forests ; flight moderately rapid, settles on the ground and on bushes. Easily 

 captured" (Hutchison'). 



I possess eight specimens, three males and five females, of C. lanka from Ceylon. The 

 males differ somewhat in the depth of the colour of the ground on the upperside, and also in the 

 width of the outer black border to both wings, the discal band on the underside is very obscure, 

 but the comparative straightness of its inner edge at once distinguishes it from C. cognata. The 

 females are also variable in the ground-colour of the upperside and also in the prominence of the 

 discal band on the underside, though it is always much wider and more distinct than in the male. 

 In two specimens it is slightly paler than the ground-colour and glossed with purple, in the 

 other three it is silvery purplish-white. 



412. Oirrliochroa relata, de N., n. sp. 



Habitat : South India. 



Expanse : 2"S to 3'i inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both zuings bright fulvous, the disc crossed by a more 

 or less prominent black line, much deflexed inwards at the third median nervule of the fore- 

 wing, with the usual white spot placed outwardly against it on the costa of the hindwing very 

 large and quadrate ; two submarginal lunular and a marginal straight black line, the two outer 

 lines anteriorly widening out and amalgamating towards the apex. Fo tewing with the disco- 

 cellulars defined by a fine black line. Hindwing \y:'\\\\ a discal series of six round black dots. 

 Underside, both 'cvings paler, a very obscure subbasal fine black line, usually with an extremely 

 prominent pure white discal band, its outer edge very straight, its inner edge somewhat less so, 

 and defined by a narrow fuscous line ; the marginal lines of the upperside but very indistinct, 

 with a pale patch at the apex and inner angle of the forewing, enclosing two pale bands on the 

 hindwing. Hindwing with the discal dots as above, but smaller and placed on an obsoles- 

 cent diffused darker band, which is obscurely continued on to the forewing. Female. Upper- 

 side, both wings paler than the male, all the black markings more prominent, the disc beyond 

 the medial black line on the foretoing paler than the rest of the ground ; the outer margin 

 highly emarginate, thereby giving the wing a very falcate appearance. Underside, both wings 

 with the ground-colour more ochreous than in the male, markings similar, but the discal pure 

 white band still more prominent, its outer edge defined with a somewhat broad deep purple 

 line. Other markings as in male. 



