NOTES ON CEYLON BUTTERFLIES. Ul 



submarginal fascia being much broader and darker, and the other spots and 

 markings also larger and blacker. 



Both sexes and more especially the female have a beautiful violet iridescent 

 gloss, more particularly intense towards the bases of the wings. 



The under surface of the wings in both sexes is very similar to A. alcippe 

 the apex of the forewiog being rather darker. 



The insect is very constant in colouring, judging from the number of 

 specimens, about twenty, which I have examined ;^Types in Coll : Mackwood 

 and Manders). 



The species is evidently very local, but j robably common where it occurs, 

 I am indebted to Mr. Mackwood for my specimens. 



The genus Cirrhochroa Moore Lep. Ind., reduces the number of Ceylon 

 species to one which he calls C. lanlca. In South India he gives one species 

 C. ihais, Fabricius. It was the opinion of De Niceville that there is probably 

 only one good species in Ceylon and South India which should be called 

 C, thais, Fabricius. In Ceylon the insect is highly seasonally dimorphic, 

 but as is so frequently the case in this island with its equable climate, the 

 form C. lanha, Moore Tdry season) and C. cognata, Moore and C. thais, Moore 

 (wet season) are frequently to be found on the wing at the same time. 

 58, Hypolimnas misippus, Lhmceus. 



In our paper above referred to we expressed surprise that the form of 

 female of this insect Papilio inaria, Cramer, should occur at all in Ceylon as 

 its mimic Danais ehrysippus Klugii, King, does not occur " being confined in 

 India to the western litoral (Bombay, Kutch and Sind)," In the light of 

 further knowledge we now know that its mimic does occur though rarely, 

 and it is interesting to note that both P. inaria and D. Klugii mimicker and 

 mimicked occur more frequently in the hottest and driest part of the island, 

 whereas P. diocippus, Cramer and D. ehrysippus, Linn, are more common in 

 the moister region of the island. 



(62) Kallima philakchus, Westwood. 



There appears to be an annual flight of this insect in the Haldumulle 

 district. Ormiston writes " Kallima comes to sugar here a little ; but the loquot 

 trees are an attraction and almost all I catch are on them. The bes-t tip is 

 searching low on the stems just before dark, or by moonlight when they can 

 be picked off with the fingers." The flights usually take place in November 

 or late in December and in some years number many hundred individuals. 



It would be interesting to know whether the closely allied Indian species 

 K. ward? and the Andamanese species K. alhofaciata is given to migrating. 

 72. LiBYTHEA LEPiTA, Moore. 



This insect is decidedly local in Ceylon and only a few specimens have been 

 taken. It is probably confined to the same district as A. ceylonica. 

 (105) Takucus theophrastus, Fabricius, 



Confined to the more desert portions of the island where at Fort Frederick, 

 Trincomalie, I had opportunities of observing it at all seasons of the year. It 



