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group Euploeina. The genus Chittira is entirely distinct fi'oni Bxdacara {D. Nilcji- 

 riensls), with which Mr. De Niceville groups it (Butt. Ind. i. p. 42) — tlic latter but- 

 terfly, besides having a conspicuously more triangular form of both wings, the male 

 possesses the large spatular-shaped patch of scales on the lower median veinlet, iti 

 addition to that on the submedian and on the internal vein, the former patch not 

 being present in Chittira. 



CHITTIRA FUMATA (Plate 16, fig. 2, 2 a, Ij, <^ 2 )• 



Danais fumata, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1886, p. 53. 



Chittira famata, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 9, pi. 4, fig. 1, la, $ ? (1880); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1883, p. 252. 



Danais taprohana , FelJer, Eeise Novara, Lep. ii. p. 349, pi. 42, f. 4 (1867). 



Danais {Gliittira) taprohana, Marshall and De Nicuville, Butt, of India, &c., i. p. 41 (1883). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside rich dark brown, slightly paler on the 

 abdominal margin. Forewing with a somewhat opaque pale greyish-white short and 

 narrow streak within the cell ; a more or less defined broad lengthened triangular 

 streak below the cell, the streak being basally traversed by a broad brown line ; 

 three small discal spots above it, the upper one being minute or obsolete ; a subapical 

 oblique series of five spots, the third and fourth being elongated ; and a submarginal 

 row of six small spots. Rindiuing with a broad greyish- white discoidal streak, a small 

 narrow discal streak above its end, and one or two minute spots beyond it, a submar- 

 ginal apical series of three or four very small spots, the lower spots being obsolescent 

 in the male, but more apparent in the female, the female also having a lower marginal 

 row of minute spots. Male toith two spatxilar-shaped patches of scent-scales, one on the 

 submedian vein, the other which is the smallest and with a less apparent patch on 

 the internal vein, both traversed by a dilatation of the vein. Cilia alternate brown and 

 white. Head, thorax, palpi, and legs black ; thorax in front and beneath and head white 

 spotted, front and side of palpi and femora beneath white ; abdomen dark brown above, 

 beneath paler, with grey segmental bands. Underside paler, but of a brighter brown 

 colour; markings as above ; hindwing clouded with darker brown between the veins 

 across the discal area, the exterior border being grey speckled. 



Expanse, 2f to 2^ inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



Distribution and Habits. — Confined to the Island of Ceylon, and accoi-ding to 

 Mr. Hutchison it is "found all the year, but scarce in February and March, in the 

 hills 3000 to 6000 feet, in forest and often in coffee plantations. Common at New- 

 era Eliya and several miles around. Flight slow and heavy." Mr. F. M. Mackwood 

 also notes its occurrence " in the middle and upper elevations, where it is very 

 common." 



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