73 LEPIDOPTERA IN DIG A. 



Gamorta, Tiruna Boepstorffii, and Karaclira Andamanensis are confined to those 

 islands. In Ceylon the restricted species are Grastia Scherzeri, Grastia Asela, 

 Grastia Frauenfeldii, Eiiplcea Gorus, Pademma Sinhala, and Narmnda montana. 



G-ENBEAL Habits. — The authors of " The Butterflies of India " (p. 57) remark 

 that " they affect patches of scrub in cultivation, and the edges of forests, and fly 

 rather slowly and heavily ; they are most abundant in warm, damp, tropical 

 climates, and seem to shun dry places, whether cold or hot." 



Genus MENAMA. 



Euplrea (Cmdia, Sect. B), Marshall and De ¥iceville, Butt, of India, i. p. 76 (1882). 

 Menama, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 261. 



Imago. — Male. Forewing rather long, broad, costal margin slightly arched, apex 

 somewhat acuminate, exterior margin very oblique, short, posterior margin very 

 convex in the middle ; upper discocellular bent very obliquely inward, and angled at 

 its lower end, emitting a short discoidal veinlet from the angle, lower bent obliquely 

 outward. On the underside is a large elongated scabrous patch, composed of 

 elongated round-tipt regularly and fl.atly disposed layers of ribbed scales on the 

 posterior margin. Hindwing broad, exterior margin obliquely convex, with a broad 

 glossy anterior border. Palpi short, thick, compactly hirsute, apex very short, 

 pointed. 



l^l/pie. — M. Camaralzeman. 



MENAMA CAMARALZEMAN (Plate 17, fig. 1, la, (J). 



Eupkea Camaralzeman, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud, 188G, p. 271, pi. 29, fig. 1, S ; Druce, P. Z. S. 



1874, p. 103. 

 Grastia Gamaralzeman, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. xiv. p. 298 (1878). 

 Euplaia (Gratstia) Camarakeynan, Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, i. p. 77 (1882); Ehves and 



De Niceville, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1887, p. 416. 

 Menama Camaraheman, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 264. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside blackish-brown, outer borders paler, the basal area 

 of both wings glossed with steel-blue. Forewing with an indistinct white discal 

 dot between the upper and middle median veinlets, and two or three very small 

 white lower-marginal spots. Hindifing with the costal border broadly pale glossy 

 cinerescent-brown ; a submarginal row of small oval prominent white spots, and a 

 marginal row of more rounded spots, both rows somewhat decreasing in size towards 

 the apex. Underside dark olivescent-brown. Foreiving with a small white costal 

 spot above end of the cell, one at lower end of the cell, one on the disc between 

 upper and middle median veinlets, also a larger oval spot between the middle and 



