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NOTES ON CEYLON BUTTERFLIES. 

 By Major N. Manders, f.z.s., f.e.s. 



These notes on Ceylon bntterflies are supplementary to the list of Ceylon 

 butterflies published by De Niceville and Manders in the Journal Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal, Vol. Ixviii., Part ii, No. 3 of 1899, pp. 170—234. 



Certain corrections in that list are needed, a few new species (one un- 

 described) to the island have been added, and the list brought up to date. The 

 numbers refer to those iu the above list. 



5-a. Danais {Lininias) chrysippus Klugii, Klug, 



This insect was described by Marshall and De Niceville, Butt. Ind., Vol i., 

 p. 52, as Danais dorippus, Klug (Karachi and Sind). But Butler, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond, 1^8*, p. 478, and Yerbury, Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc„ Vol. vii, p. 209, 

 give valid reasons for believing that D. dorippus, King, is a form of D. 

 chrysippus, which though found on the Arabian coast is more distinctiA'e of 

 Somaliland and Central Africa, whereas D. Klugii is an Arabian and 

 Indian form of D. chysipjms. The first specimen of this insect in Ceylon 

 was captured by Lieut.-Colonel Yerbury at Trincomalie, April 15, 1891, an 

 event which I had overlooked, or rather was not aware of until lately, when 

 five or six specimens coming to hand called for an investigation of the 

 literature of the species. These specimens were captured by Mr. Pole at 

 Puttalam on the east coast and Hambantotte on the south coast in the dryest 

 and perhaps most arid portion of the island. It is evidently widely distribut- 

 ed in the desert portion of the island and is possibly not uncommon. 



The distribution of this insect in India cannot yet be fully known ; it is 

 rare in Canara, but is not yet reported from the plains of the Deccan, or 

 Southern India so far as I am aware though it probably exists. 

 8. Danais {Chiltira) taprobana, Felder. 



This insect has now been frequently bred by Mr, Green, myself and others. 

 The larva feeds on Tylophora astlimatica. 



23. YpHTHiMA siNGALA, Felder. 



The larva feeds on grasses. I have not succeeded in rearing the butterfly 

 but the young larva is bright pink and covered with long white hairs. 



65-a. AtELLA CEYLONICA, n. sp. 



Habitat : Nitre Cave district, Ceylon. 



Expanse : Male 48-53 M., Female 58 M, 



Nearest to A, alcippe var. pallidior, !'taudinger=^4, alcippoides Moore. 

 From which however it is easily distinguished. 



Wings longer and narrower ; apex of forewing from just beyond the cell 

 entirely black. Outer margin and submarginal fascia more broadly black 

 leaving the intervening fuscous lunules or rather line, which is interrupted by 

 the black veins, narrow. The outer row of circular black spots (three in 

 number) larger and blacker. Discal markings as in J, alcippe. 



In the hind wing the arrangement is much the same, the. outer margin and 



