NYMPIIALIX^. (Group ARGTxyixA.) 237 



also ill the Nilgiris aud Travancore. Mr. Gr. F. Hampson records it as beins^: 

 " coufiued to the Plateau, where it is very common " (J. A. S. Bang. 1888, 

 354). Mr. H. Ferguson records it as being "found rarely at Pirmerd, Traran- 

 core ; common on the Hill range, the male more so than the female'' (Journ. 

 Bombay N". H. S. 1891, 3). 



ACIDALIA TAPROBANA. 



Acidalia JS^ijJie, Moore, Lep. of Cejlon, i. p. GO, pi. 31, fig. 2, 2a, ,^ ¥, 2b, liirva and j^tiqja (18S1). 



Imago. — Intermediate between the S. Indian form {Ga>iti-Ui) and typical 

 Hijjjerhiiis. Male. Upperside with the black markings comparatively larger and 

 broader. On the hindwing, the discocellular bar extends prominently from the 

 median to subcostal veinlet. Female. Upperside with similar larger black markings ; 

 the subapical oblique white band on foi'ewing broader than in the S. Indian form. 



Expanse, <S 2];^o to 2i^o> ? 3 inches. 



Larva. — Purplish-black, with a dorsal tawny stripe. Head spined ; segments 

 with dorsal and lateral rows of red branched-spiues. 



Pupa. — Head bluntly bifid ; thorax bunched and keeled, spined in fi-out ; 

 dorsum slightly arched, with pairs of anterior and posterior spines. Pale purplish- 

 black, with subdorsal metallic spots. (Described from figure. I.e.) 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



DiSTKiBDTiON. — " Found in the Hills from 2000 to COOO feet elevation, in the 

 neighbourhood of waste grass lands and swamps. Larva feeds on Wild Violet " 

 (F. M. Mackwood, M8.). " Very common in the upper and middle districts wherever 

 the Violet is found, on which plant the larva feeds. It is particularly numerous 

 about Newara Eliya and on the Horton Plains, stragglers being occasionally found 

 in the low couutrj'. It flies nearly all the year round " (Dr. N. Manders, Journ. 

 As. Soc. Bengal, 1899, 194). 



Malay and Austko-Malay k^PECIEs. — Acidalia Javanira (Argynnis Javanica, 

 Oberthiir, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1899, p. 235. Habitat. Java; Sumatra. — Acidalia 

 inconstana (Argynnis inconstans, Batler, Cistula Entom. i. p. 1G4 (1873). Habitat. 

 Australia. 



Genus ARGYNNIS. 



Argynnis, Fabricius, Illiger's Mag. vi. p. 283 (1807). ScuJder, Syst. liev. Amer. Butt. p. 24 (1872). 

 Schiitz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 118 (1887). Kitby, Allen's Nat. Hist. Libr. Butt. i. p. 52 (1894). 



Imago. — Male. Furewing subtriangular ; costa well arched from the base, apex 

 rounded, exterior margin very slightly oblique and nearly even ; cell broader than in 

 Driji^a^; first and second subcostal branches emitted before end of the cell; discocel- 

 lulars outwardly-obhque, upper short, middle deeply concave, lower recurved ; middle 



