NYMPHALIN^. (Group ^ser.v.vr.yi.) 221 



small black spots on hindwiug ; and two submarginal obscure violaceous-grey 

 limular lines. 



Female. Upperside slightly paler than in male ; markings similar. Underside 

 greyish-ochreous or olivescent greyish-oclireous, washed with violaceous-grey ; 

 mai'kings as in male, the discal sinuous band prominent violaceous-white. 



Expanse, c? 2 to 2]^o, ? 2j^o to 3 inches. 



Dry-season form (Plate 369, fig. le, f, ^). 



Girrochroa Lanka, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1872, p. 557; Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 63, pi. 32, fig. 4, 

 4a, S (1881). de Niceville, Butt, of India, ii. p. IIG (1886). 



Male and female. Upperside similar to wet-season form ; markings less 

 prominent, the inner-discal sinuous line on forewing less acutely sinuous anteriorly ; 

 the anterior interspace between the marginal black band and the discal sinuous 

 line broader. Underside similar to wet form, except that the transverse discal band 

 is broader and entii'e and glossy violet-grey or white, its inner-edge being almost 

 even. 



Expanse, 2^q to 2n) inches. 



Larva. — Pale purplish-brown, yellowish beneath ; head yellow, spotted in front 

 with black ; with two dorsal rows of long delicate brauched-spines, and two lateral 

 rows of shorter spines ; a similar spine projecting on each side of the head from 

 second segment. 



Pupa. — Pale bluish-purple, spotted with black ; with lengthened dorsal 

 tubercles and two longer tubercular processes projecting from front of thorax ; 

 head cleft. 



Habitat. — C ey Ion . 



Distribution. — " Found in the Western, Central, and Southern Provinces ; 

 plains and up to 6000 feet elevation, in forests. Flight moderately rapid ; settles on 

 the ground and on bushes ; easily captured " (Capt. Hutchison, Notes). " A low 

 country insect, found chiefly in the interior" (F. M. Mackwood, Notes). "Taken 

 at Galle and Kandy " (Capt. Wade). 



CIEROCHROA NICOBARICA. 



Cirrocliroa Nicolarica. Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Joiirn. Asiatic Soc. liengal, 1881, p. 231 ; tJ. 

 1882, p. 16, pi. 3, fig. 5, cJ. de Kiceville, Butt, of India, ii. p. 112 (18S6). Dohcrty, Journ. 

 As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 258, ? . 



JFei-seoson/orm (Plate 370, fig. 1, la, b, c, cJ ? ). 

 Imago. — Male. Upperside bright fulvous, the basal area brighter and somewhat 



