CHOASPRS. 



Central Provinces [Ceylon] . Hills 3,000 to 5,000 feet. Forests. 

 May to November. Shy, but not difficult to capture. Settles on ground ; 

 easily disturbed but returns to same place (Hutchison). 



Dickoya [Ceylon] . Not common. The larva rolls itself upon the 

 tip of the leaf on which it feeds, and when it has eaten this leaf it goes 

 to another, and so on till it changes to pupa (Wade)" (Moore, I. c.) 



Also recorded from Kumaon (Doherty)\ Cachar (Wood-Mason and de 

 Niceville) ; Nilgiris (Hampson) ; Ahsown, N. Tenasserim (Limborg) ; 

 Kangra (Moore] ; Sikkim (Elwes), Sikkim (de Niceville). 



This is a species which varies very little. I have it commonly 

 from the Nilgiris. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



4, CHOASPES HARISA, MOORE. 



Ismene harisa, Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 782. 



Choaspes harisa, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 373, pi. xxxiv, fig. 22 $ . 

 (1882-86). 



Choaspes harisa, de Niceville, J. A. S. B., vol. Hi, pt. 2, 1883, p. 84, 

 pi. 10, fig. 8 $. 



" Male and female brown. 



Male. Upperside dull vinaceous brown, palest on the disk; fore- 

 wing with an orange yellow costal streak; hindwing broadly along 

 anterior margin pale buff yellow. Body greyish. Cilia of hindwing 

 orange yellow. Underside paler suffused with orange yellow ; forewing 

 with a curved series of pale purple narrow streaks between the veins 

 before the apex, and a broad pale buff patch along the posterior 

 margin ; hindwing with the veins and lines between them and cilia 

 orange yellow: a black orange yellow encircled basal spot on both 

 wings; a discal series of pale purplish streaks. Third joint of palpi 

 brown ; palpi beneath, front and sides of thorax, legs and streak along 

 side of abdomen orange yellow ; middle of thorax and abdomen and 

 anal tuft orange yellow. 



Female. Upperside dark purple brown ; the base of wings greyish, 

 with steel blue gloss. Body greyish. Cilia of hindwing pale orange 

 yellow. Underside as in male ; posterior margin of forewing with a 



less defined pale patch. 



Expanse, 2 inches. 



Habitat, Darjeeling." (Moore, I. c.) 



Also recorded from the Andamans (Wood-Mason and de Niceville) ; 

 Sikkim (de Niceville) ; Sikkim (Elwes). 



I have obtained this species commonly in Rangoon. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



Mr. Elwes describes a single fresh female of this species in his 

 collection from Sikkim as blackish brown, brilliantly glossed over with 

 steely green which extends nearly to the border of the hindwing and 

 over more than half the forewing. It lacks the costal streak of the male. 



