22 I.Kl'lDOrTERA INDICA. 



taken in August, and dnj fovnt, taken in October and November, in the Karen Hills 

 (Signor L. Fea); Mandalay ; and Pyia Mjoung, Shan States, taken by Col. C. H. E. 

 Adamson. Ir was taken at jMasuri in October, by Major H. B. Hellard (MS. Notes). 

 Mr. AV. Doherty oi)tained it in the " Gori and Kali Valley, Kumaon, at 2000 to 4000 

 feet elevation" (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 124). Mr. P. W. Mackinnon records it as 

 "very coninion in the Dehra Dhuii, where the food plant of its bright green spiny 

 larva, tlie Castor-oil jilaiit {1\. coDtmnnis), grows. Found also occasionally in Masiiri, 

 in August" (J. As. Soc. Beng. 1897, 368). It occurs in the Kliasia Hills (Col. 

 Swinhoe, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 277). Mr. J. Roth ne}^ found it common at Barrackpnr, 

 near Calcutta, from early March to end of October (Ent. M. Mag. 1880). In Sikkim 

 it is "a common species at low elevations, and more or less throughout the year" 

 (H. J. Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 335). Colonel C. Swinhoe has examples taken at 

 Poona. Mr. G. F. Hampson took it in the Nilgiris (J. A. S. Beng. 1888, 352). 

 Capt. E. Y. Watson obtained it at Berhampnr and Ganjam, Madras. Mr. H. S. 

 Ferguson records it from Travancore (J. Bombay X. H. S. 1891, 7). Signor L. Fea 

 took it in Burma, at Meteleo, 900 to lOUO feet, in June and September, and at 

 Bhamo in September. Col. C. H. E. Adamson found it " common in Burma 

 wherever the Castor-oilplant gi-ows, all the year round" (List, 1897, 17). Dr. N. 

 Manders found it " commonly at elevations from 1000 to 3000 feet, in the Shan 

 States, and less common fiom 3000 to 5000 feet" (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 520). It 

 was taken in Tavoy by the native Collector, Moti Ram (J. As. Soc. Beng. 1887 

 420). Dr. J. Anderson obtained it on Elphinstone Island, Mergui, in March 

 (J. Linn. Soc. Zoo). 1886, 35). 



ERGOLIS TAPROBANA. 



Ergolis TdiH-ohana, WestwooJ, Gen. D. Lep. ii. p. 410, pi. 08, fiy. 4, (J (1851). Moore, Lep. of 

 Ceylon, i. p. 44, pi. 23, fig. 1, la, L, <J ? (1881). de Niceville, Butt, of India, ii. p. 9 (1886). 

 FnilLstorfoi-, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1899, p. 93. 



IVet-season brood (Plate 384, fig. 1, la, h, o, <^ ? ). 



Imago. — Male and female. Wings shorter, and the exterior margins more even 

 than in E. Merione. Male. Upperside richer and darker reddish-ferruginous. 

 Forewing with no subapical white spot ; cell crossed by five black slender sinuous 

 lines, and two even lines enclosing the discocellulars, the second, third and fourth 

 line continued below to the submedian vein ; followed by two transverse inner- 

 discal and a medial-discal sinuous line, then an outer-discal dentated line, the two 

 latter lines are joined along the veins and thus form a row of more or less defined 

 cordiform marks, each interspace also enclosing an obscure dusky dentate spot; 

 beyond is a submai'ginal slender sinuous line. Hinrlirhirj with the costal border 



