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spot beyond it within the cell, a slender costal streak from the base. Two streaks 

 below the cell and a slender basal streak on the hindmargin, two large discal spots, 

 three small upper spots, and five subapical spots, the upper three of which are 

 slender, a submarginal regular series of seven small spots, and a marginal row of 

 minute spots. Hindiving with pale bluish-white broad basal streaks, large discal 

 spots, an irregular submarginal and a marginal row of small spots. No scent-pouch in 

 male. Head, thorax, and palpi white spotted, femora beneath streaked with white ; 

 abdomen brown above, paler beneath. Underside : forewing dark brown ; hind- 

 wing umber-brown ; markings as above, but paler. 



Expanse, 2f to 3 inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



DiSTKiBDTiON. — This butterfly, writes Captain Wade-Dalton, " is common in the 

 Kottawa forest. Not seen elsewhere." Mr. F. M. Mackwood states it to be " a 

 low country butterfly." 



Indo-Malafan Allied Radbnas. — These topomorphic species are B. Juventa 

 (Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 188, f. B.), inhabiting Singapore, Java, Sumatra, 

 Billiton, Lombok, Labuan ; It. Manillana (Moore, P.Z.S. 1883, p. 222), Hab. Manilla, 

 and R. Luzonica (Moore, I.e. p. 222), Hab. Luzon. 



Genus TIRUMALA. 



Tirumala, Moore, Lepidoptera of Ceylon, i. p. 4 (1880), id. Proc. Zool. See. Lend. 1883, p. 230. 

 Banais (part), Godart, Encycl. M^th. ix. pp. 10, 172 (1819). 



Danais {Tirumala), Marshall and De Niceville, Butterflies of India, &c., i. p. 45 (1882). 

 Danais (section B, part), Distant, Rhopalocera Malayana, p. 16 (1882). 



Imago. — Forewing broad, triangular ; first branch of the subcostal vein emitted 

 at one-fifth before end of the cell and free from the costal vein ; second branch from 

 end of the cell ; discocellulars bent acutely inward in the middle below upper radial, 

 and emitting a short point within the cell from the angle ; lower discocellular slender 

 near its upper end ; submedian with a short lower basal veinlet. Hindiving broadly 

 oval, exterior margin very convex ; costal vein slightly curved ; cell short, and 

 anteriorly oblique ; second subcostal branch emitted nearer the first, and ujjper 

 median nearer the middle branch than in Badena. Male with an open scent-pouch 

 situated between the lower median and submedian veins, the pendant sac of which 

 is prominent on the underside of the wing (the interior of the pouch containing, 

 in the dried specimen, numerous minute white filaments). Antennae shorter than 

 in Badena, the club also shorter and the tip more pointed. Apical joint of the 

 palpi shorter. 



Laeva, with two pair of fleshy filaments. 



Type. — T. Limniace. 



