170 LEPIDOPTEBA INBICA. 



with obscure darker olivescent-brown fascige, dark rib-line, discal spots and speckles, 

 and sometimes with blackish-speckled fungoid basal patches. Body and palpi above 

 blue, beneath and legs pale ochreous ; antennge black above, tip and beneath reddish- 

 ochreoiis. 



Expanse, c? 3 to 4, ? 4i^ inches. 



Wet-season form (Plate 341, fig. 1, la, (J; lb, c, 9 ). 



Kallima MacJcwoodi, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1879, p. 14 ; Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 37, pi. 20, fig. 2, 2a 

 S ? (1881). de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 266 (1886). 



Male. Upperside similar to tiie dry-season form. Forewing with a prominent 

 large oval hyaline spot between the lower medians, and a smaller spot also in the 

 upper median interspace. Underside. Ground-colour either olivescent-ochreous, 

 black-speckled, and with indistinctlj-defined darker oblique purpurescent fascia and 

 prominent brown rib-line, or violaceous-grey with olivescent-fascia3, or uniformly 

 reddish-ochreous, black speckled, and very prominent olive-brown rib-line. Fore- 

 wing with the two hyaline spots as on the upperside. Hindwing with outer-discal 

 more or less obscure ocelli. 



Female. Upperside similar to the male, but paler ; the basal areas of a greenish 

 tint ; the band on forewing whitish ; hyaline spots the same. Underside pale 

 reddish-ochreous with darker fascia3, black speckles, and pale-edged olive-brown 

 rib-line. Forewing with hyaline spots as above. Hindwing with obscure pale 

 ochreous ocelli. 



Expanse, c? 3^^ to S^^, ? S^) to 4^^q inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon . 



DiSTETBUTiON. — Occurs in the " medium range principally and upwards. Always 

 found in the jungle. Most plentiful in the Ambigamoa District " (F. M. Mackwood, 

 MS. Notes). "A very rare butterfly; taken at Kandy " (Capt. Wade). Col. 

 J. W. Yerbury obtained numerous specimens at PeripacherakuUum, on the Kandy 

 road to Trincomalie, in October, 1890. 



KALLIMA HORSFIELDIL 



Dry-season form (Plate 345, fig. 1, la, (^; lb, c, ? ). 



PapJtm HorsfieMii, Kollar, in Hugel's Kaschmir, iv. pt. 2, p. 434, pi. 10, ? (1844). 



Kullima Horsfieldii, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1879, p. 13. de Nioeville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 265 



(1886). Davidson and Aitken, Joum. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 227; id. 1896, p. 256, 



pi. 2, fig. 5, 5a, larva ajid pupa. 



Imago. — Upperside similar to K. Philarchus. Distinguished by having the 

 blue-band on forewing comparatively narrower posteriorly, its inner black streaks 



