190 Mr. Francis A. Heron on a 



a -wide grey band across the middle ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries slightly glossed with bronze. 



Total length 19'0 inches ; exposed part of culmen 0*9 ; 

 wing 9"2 ; tail 7*0 ; tarsus 1%"}8; middle toe and claw 2'0. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but rather smaller, and 

 the under tail-coverts distinctly margined with chestnut. 



Total length 17*5 inches; exposed part of culmen 0*9; 

 wing 8'8 ; tail 6'25 ; tarsus 1*3 ; middle toe and claw I'S. 



XXXI. — Description of a new Spindasis/rom Ceylon. 

 By Feancis a. Heron. 



Spindasis Greenly sp. n. 



Hob. Pundaloya, Ceylon. 



Expanse, $ 35 millira. 



Description. — Male. Upperside : fore wing light violet- 

 brown, the basal and discal areas, including the cell, sparsely 

 covered with pale lilacine-blue scales. 



In certain lights the brown assumes a warm golden tinge 

 and in others an iridescent violet glosses the lilacine area. 



Hind wing similarly coloured, but paler and greyer on the 

 costa and inner margin. The iridescent violet extends from 

 subcostal to submedian. 



Both wings are outlined by darker brown scales and the 

 scales of the fringes are very pale brown. 



Underside : both wings pale ochreous brown, growing 

 pearly towards the inner margin of the fore wing, especially 

 along the veins ; sparse iridescent scales enrich the deadness 

 of the ground-colour by gold in certain lights. The markings, 

 in a darker shade of the ground-colour, are very much re- 

 duced, and very few are speckled with silver, those of the 

 fore wing, cell, and hind wing-lobe being most conspicuously 

 ornamented in this manner. 



On the fore wing there are traces of a faint row of sub- 

 marginal spots extending from the apex to the outer angle, 

 the apical spots showing traces of a few silvery scales j a bar 

 marks the position of the discoidal, and another, parallel to it, 

 within the cell, the origin of tiie first median vein ; another 

 bar, almost continuous with the discoidal, but slightly dis- 

 placed outwards, unites the median. 



Below the origin of the third subcostal there is a small 

 reniform spot, and faint traces of another exist beneath this. 



