PAEEIUXNIA. 281 



<)61 . Pareronia ceylanica, Fddcr (Eronia), Novara Seise, Lep. ii, 1865, 

 p. 191 ; Moore (Nepheronia), Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 138. 



Nepheronia fraterna, Moore, Lep. Ceyl.. i, 1881, p. 139, pi. 54, 

 tigs. 3, 3 a, rf $ ; Hampson, J. A. S. B. 1888, p. 363. 



Nepheronia spiculifera, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 139. 



Nearest to and very closely resembles P. pingasa, but the hind 

 wing in all the specimens that I have seen is more rounded, thus 

 causing the outer black border on the upperside of that wing in 

 the c? to appear more of an even width throughout. On the fore 

 wing the outer black border is not narrowed posteriorly as it is in 

 P. pingasa, but is very broad and of even width from vein 5 to 

 tornus, at the latter point it is always distinctly broader than it 

 ever is in 2Mngas(i. d . Underside : costa, apical half of fore wing 

 beyond a curved line from costa to tornal angle, and the whole 

 surface of the hind wing nacreous blue with a lustre much richer 

 than that in P. hippia or P. pingasa. In individuals of the 

 smaller dry-season broods, this nacreous blue lustre extends right 

 up to the termen on both fore and hind wings, through it the 

 black markings of the upperside are obscurely visible by trans- 

 parency, but there is no black diffuse heavy terminal shading on 

 either wing. In specimens of the wet-season broods which also 

 run distinctly larger, there is a subterminal transverse series of 

 obscure white spots that is bordered both on the inner and outer 

 sides by still more obscure dusky Junular markings. $ . Upper- 

 side : markings very similar to those in P. pingasa $ , but the 

 streaks between the veins slightly deeper bluish- white. Under- 

 side : more or less as in the wet-season form of the d ; the 

 terminal margins of both fore and hind wings never heavily shaded 

 with dusky black. 



Exp. <S 62-76 mm. (2-44-3-00")i 



Half. Ceylon ; Southern India : Nilgiri district, Cochin, 

 Travancore. 



