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the ordinary dusky blackish spot ia cell of hindwing being distinct ; submarginal 

 ocelloid spots more or less developed. 



Expanse, c? 2^^^ to 2^^, ? '^h to 3 inches. 



Caterpillak. — Elongated, thickened in the middle ; head with two long pubes- 

 cent red processes; anal segment also with two processes ; colour green, with 

 longitudinal aud transverse darker lines ; face striped with red. 



Chrysalis. — Green. Head and thorax flattened. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



DiSTRiBUTiox. — " Found in the Western and Central provinces ; in the plains, 

 and up to 3000 feet elevation. June to September" (Hutchison, Lep. Ceylon, i. 

 p. 16). Mr. E. E. Green obtained it at Pundaloya in January, March, April, May, 

 July and October, and at Ramboda, Kandy, in January and April. 



MELANITIS BETHAMI. 



Wet-season Brood (Plate 125, figs. 1, la, b, (J ? ). 

 Melanitis Bethami, de Niceville, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend. 1887, p. 451. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dusky fuliginous-brovrn, the outer borders palest ; 

 cilia brown. Foreicing very slightly angled below the apex ; with a well-defined 

 subcostal nearly round ochreous patch before the apex, divided by the brown radial 

 veinlets. Eindiving unmarked. Underside dark purpurescent-brown, densely and 

 uniformly covered with ochreous-cinereous strigse ; the outer border ferruginous. 

 Forewing with four ordinary small obscure white-pupilled ocelli. Hindwing with 

 a series of six submarginal prominent ocelli, the upper second minute, the anal 

 geminated, the other four nearly equal and much larger, each pupilled with white. 



Female. Upperside. Both wings much paler than in the male. Foreioing 

 more broadly angled below the apex; with the entire apical area broadly pale 

 ochreous, on which is placed a round black spot with white pupil, situated between 

 the upper and middle median veinlets, also a minute obsolescent ocellus below it and 

 three above it. Hindwing with a small posterior submarginal black spot between 

 the middle aud lower medians, pupilled with white. Underside. Both wings with 

 the ground-colour pale purpurescent-ochreous, densely covered with darker brown 

 strigte, the basal area and outer borders of the discal fascia slightly washed with 

 pale purpurescent-cinereous ; the ocelli as in the male, but rather larger ; the outer 

 margins ochreous. Foreioing with an obscure ochreous oblique medial and a waved 

 discal narrow fascia, and the hindwing with a medial excurved similar fascia, the 

 two latter somewhat most defined. Body beneath, and palpi cinereous-ochreous 

 speckled ; legs brown ; antennge brown, with a pale ochreous tip. 



Expanse, <S 2^^, ? 3 inches. 



