EUPLCEIN^. 85 



black; middle and hind femora white streaked beneath; abdomen beneath with white 

 segmental bands. 



Expanse, 3^ to 3^ inches. 



Adult Oatehpillar. — Cylindrical; purplish-white or dove-colour, with a pair of 

 curled reddish fleshy filaments on three of the anterior isegments, and a pair on the 

 twelfth segment ; each segment transversely barred with narrow white and purplish 

 bands, and with some red and black dots ; abdominal line black ; head black barred ; 

 thoracic legs pale ; prolegs black, whitish ringed. 



Chrysalis. — Golden-yellow, constricted below the thorax, streaked and banded 

 with brown; dorsal segments black spotted. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



Distribution and Habits. — According to Mr. Hutchison (Lep. Ceylon, i. 12) it 

 is " found everywhere in the plains, and up to 6000 feet, in forest or open ground. 

 At Colombo it occurs from October to January; elsewhere all the year. Flight 

 slow, heavy. Often comes into the house in numbers, sometimes settling on one's 

 clothe.^!." Mr. F. M. Mackwood writes, " Found in low country, numerous specimens 

 occurring in the annual flights in November and December. The larva feeds on the 

 oleander." 



Food Plant. — " Feeds on Nerium oleander, &c." (Hutchison). 



CRASTIA GODAETII (Plate 25, fig. 1, la, b, c, d, c? ? ). 

 Euplcea Godartii, Lucas, Eev. efc Mag. Zool. 1853, p. 319, ? . Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1866, 



p. 275 ; id. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. xiv. p. 301 (1878). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, 



p. 824. Distant, Khop. Malayaua, p. 34, pi. 3, fig. 8 (1832). Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of 



Lidia, i. p. 84 (1882). 

 Crastia Godartii, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 278; id. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, p. 31. 

 Euplcea Siamensis, "F elder, Eeise No vara, Lep. ii. p. 341, pi. 41, fig. 6 (1867), c?. Druce, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. Lond. 1874, p. 103. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside purplish olivaceous-brown, darkest basally. Fore- 

 toing with a more or less broad purplish violet-grey apical patch, which is formed by 

 a powdering of the spaces between the veins, the patch varying both in width and 

 intensity, in some extending broadly downward to the upper or middle median vein- 

 let and to the extreme apical margin, in others it is more or less narrow and then 

 does not extend to the margin, and again, in others it is obsolescent ; a small violet- 

 white costal spot above end of the cell, one within lower end of the cell, one or two 

 on the disc between the median veinlets, of which latter the upper or lower is some- 

 times absent, in some all are obsolescent ; a more or less complete submarginal and 

 marginal row of small white spots, which, when complete, are generally distinctly 

 formed, and in some specimens the upper of the submarginal row are ringed with 

 brown, in some specimens both rows are incomplete; a short sexual mark between 



