NTMPHALIN^. (Group EVSYTELiyA.) 23 



grey, the subcostal branches slightly grey -lined ; cell crossed by slender black 

 sinuous lines continuing to the subinedian vein, and two straight discocellular 

 lines ; followed by two inner-discal and two outer-discal sinuous lines which extend 

 only to the radial veinlet, the latter two sometimes only to the upper median and 

 enclosing in each interspace an obscnre dusky castaneons dentate spot ; beyond 

 is a slender shortened submarginal sinuous line. Underside. Ground-colour 

 greyish-brown or pale greyish castaneous-brown ; transverse sinuous lines more or 

 less indistinct. Foreivimj Avith a slightly apparent subapical greyisli spot ; aJn'oail 

 lower disced prominent (jlo'^sij hlaclcish-hrnini jiotrli , which is clothed with a few broad 

 oval and longer narrower scales, and numerous long hair-like scales, which latter 

 are, either of equal hair-like width to near the tip, where they are imperceptibly 

 dilated laterally and tipt with two divergent extremely fine longish cilia?, or these 

 scales are more or less slightly flattened and broader throughout, dilated a little at 

 the tip and with two similar divergent fine cili*; the cell interspaces and upper 

 discal area clouded with dense rich purplish-castaneous. Eindwimj with the discal area 

 from the costa to middle median veinlet clouded with rich dense purplish-castaneous. 



Female. Upperside slightlj^ paler ; transverse markings as in male, those on 

 the hindwing being continued to the costa. Forewing with a small subapical white 

 dentate spot. Underside. Ground-colour more or less brownish-grey ; subapical 

 white spot on forewing distinct ; the cell-marks and transverse sinuous black-edged 

 bands rich purplish-castaneous. 



Expanse, c? ? \^^y to 2f^, inches. 



Drij-season brood (Plate 3Si, fig. Id, e, f, J ). 



Upperside paler brownish-ochreous than in wet-season specimens, the trans- 

 verse sinuous interspaces being alternately j^ale ochreous and duskv, similar to 

 those in dry-season form of i?. Mcrionc. Underside duller coloured ; the transverse 

 castaneous bands less defined. 



Expanse, l^^ to 2 inches. 



Haiiitat. — Ceylon; South India. 



Distribution and Habits. — In Ceylon it is " widely distributed in low country 

 and hills up to 6000 feet, both in forest and cultivated lands. Found all the year in 

 the hills, variable and not so common in the plains. Flight slow, skimming, but 

 shy, and not easy to capture " (Capt. Hutchison, MS. Notes). Mr. F. ^I. Mack wood 

 also found it " common, in Ceylon, all the j'ear round in low country and up to 4000 

 feet" (Lep. Ceylon, i. -14). In South India, Colonel J. AY. Yerbury took it at 

 Khandalla, in the Western Ghats, in October, and also at Lanowlie in September. 

 Col. C. Swinhoe has examples taken at Mahableshwar, Matheran and Trevandriim. 

 Mr. H. S. Ferguson records it from Travancore (.J. Bombay, N. H. S. 1891, 7). We 



