184 LEPIDOPTERA INDIGA. 



cular ; wing-cases dilated and exfoliated beneath ; head-piece with two pointed 

 processes. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



Distribution. — " Occurs in the lower lands, but more numerous in the Hilly 

 Districts. Commoner some years than others" (F. M. Mackwood). "Taken at 

 Gti lie and Kand}' " (Capt. Wade). "Very common in the low bill country round 

 Kandy, rarely met with at Colombo in June and July " (Dr. N. Manders, J. A. 

 Soc. Bengal, 1899, 191). 



CETHOSIA BIBLIS (Plate 352, fig. 1, la, S ; lb, c, d, ? ). 



Papilio Bihlis, Dnuy, Illust. Exot. Ent. i. pi. fig. 4, (5' (1770). Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 175, fig. 



A, B, 5(1777). Heibst, Pap. pi. 248, fig. 1, 2, c? (1798). 

 Gethosia Biblis, Fabricius, Illiger's Mag. vi. p. 280 (1^07). Weslwoorl's Edit. Drury, Ins. i. p. 9. 



de Niccville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 36 (1886). Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 446, pi. 38, fig. 3, 



S (1886). 

 Papilio Populi, Miiller, Natursystem, i. p. COS, pi. 19, fig. 4 (1774). 

 Cefho$ia PenthesUea, Fabricius, Spec. Ins. ii. p 38 (nee Cramer). 

 Alazonia Symhihlis (part), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 46 (1816). 

 Cefhosia Bihlina, Godart. Encyc. Meth. ix. p. 248 (1819). 

 Cethosia Thehnva, Grose-Smith, Annals Nat. Hist. 1887, p. 296 ; Rhop. Exot. i. Geth. pi. fig. 3, 4, ^ 



(\889)—Aben-atioii. 



Imago. — Male. Upper.side. Ground-colour of both wings rich fulvous-red ; the 

 apical half of forewing and the outer margin of hindwing fulvescent-white. Cilia 

 white. Forewing also with the cell crossed by two pairs of slender black wavy bars 

 and a similar pair bordering the black discocellular ; a lower medial-discal series of 

 ill-defined slender black linear marks, and a similar subbasal curved mark ; three 

 slender small white subcostal oblique streaks beyond the cell, and sometimes two 

 smaller lower spots are also present ; a transverse outer-discal series of five white 

 slender angled-marks pointing inwards, followed by a parallel row of white souie- 

 what reniform spots, and a marginal series of wliite slender angled-marks. 

 Hindwing also with the basal bars of the underside slightly visible ; two ill-defined 

 costal waved blackish streaks, an inner-discal spot and sinuous line ; beyond is an 

 outer-discal row of more distinct small blnck spots, and then a submarginal row of 

 lunules, which latter are each sometimes broken in two ; a marginal series of slender 

 white angled-marks. Uudei'side. Ground-colour deep fulvous-red basally, fulvous- 

 yellow externally ; outer margin with slender black-edged white angled-marks and 

 central streak. Forewing also with prominent black cell-bars, two transverse ianer- 

 discal series of slender spots, outer-discal slender oval spots and contiguous pairs of 

 small spots ; the cell-bars being interspaced and narrowly edged with bluish-gi-ey, 



