208 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



CHERITRA PSEUDOJAFRA. 

 Plate 742, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, ? , 3b, ? . 

 Cheritra pseudojafra, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 110 (1881). 



Imago. — Male and Female. Upperside like C. jaffra, but the white spots above 

 the anal angle of the hindwing reduced to small lunules, sometimes almost obsolete ; 

 these white marks in the female larger, but not nearly so large as in that sex of jaffra. 

 Underside with the ground colour pure white, the markings similarly disposed, but 

 lilacker and much more prominent, and the transverse discal band on both wings more 

 deeply lunulate ; the anal black spots encircled with bright metallic blue scales. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ l-j% inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



The type-specimen we have not been able to find, but there are both sexes from 

 Ceylon in the B. M., and our description and figures are taken from them, it is a very 

 good local form, quite distinct ivom. jaffra. 



CHERITRA JAFFRA. 



Plate 743, figs. 1, (J , la, 9 , lb, $ , Ic, gi-een larva and pupa, Id, pink larva. 



Myrina jaffra, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 36, figs. 2, 2a, J . 



Cheriira jaffra, Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 360. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. 



p. 410, pi. 29, fig. 226, $ (1890). Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, 



p. 388, pi. 5, figs. 6, 6a, larva and pupa. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside similar to the upperside of C. freja, Fabricius, but the 

 white anal band runs half way up the abdominal margin, which it does not do in the 

 Fabrician species. Underside pale grey, markings darker grey. Forewing with the 

 apex and outer margin somewhat darker, being suff"used with very pale brownish-grey, 

 a fine line at the end of the cell, a post-discal series of fine lunular lines, with an 

 outward bend above its middle, a sub-marginal fine lunular line, both curving some- 

 what close together above the hinder margin. Hindwing with two sub-marginal 

 similar lines, somewhat as in C. freja, but not so far apart from each other anteriorly, 

 and closer together and less angular in their curve posteriorly than in that species ; the 

 anal spots larger and more distinct, with an additional small black spot in the 

 iuter.spaee between them, and another in the next interspace above, all with a few- 

 metallic blue-green scales on them. 



Female, like the male above and beneath, the white anal baud and spots above 

 larger. 



Expanse of wings, $ ^ l| to l^^^j inches. 



