8 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



and ending beyond the lower median veinlet, its inner edge being sinnated ; a few 

 paler scales are contiguously clustered between the upper and middle median. 

 Hindioing with a more or less slightly-defined marginal small cluster of blackish 

 scales at end of the veins. Underside. Forewhuj white, the costal border narrowly 

 and. the apex broadly pale ochreous-yellow. Hindwing uniformly pale ochreous- 

 yellow. 



Female. Upperside greyish-white, the hindwing being very faintly tinted 

 with pale yellow. Foreioing with a broad intense black outer marginal band, 

 traversed by four subapical white spots — the upper one being slender and less 

 distinct ; the band curves angularly outward from within upper end of the cell to 

 the middle median veinlet, below which it is deeply excavated to the lower median, 

 and then terminates broadly outward to the posterior angle ; base of wing and costal 

 base dark grey scaled. Eindiving with a moderately broad black outer marginal 

 sinuous-edged band, the anal area and base of wing being irrorated with dark grey 

 scales. Underside. Forewing with a broad black normal-shaped subapical band, its 

 inner-edge as on the upperside ; the discal area greyish-white, the base and costal 

 edge pale yellow tinted, the apex bright ochreous-yellow. Jffmc^iywp' bright ochreous- 

 yellow, ti'aversed by a somewhat zigzag blackish-scaled broken submarginal fascia. 



Expanse, c? ? 2j^o to 2^-0 inches. 



Dry-season Bruod (Plate 554, fig. Id, t c?. If, g ? )• 



Male. Upperside. Forewing with a narrower outer-marginal band than in the 

 wet form, the cluster of scales between the upper and middle medians absent. Hind- 

 wing with less apparent marginal tip to the veins. Underside with the apex of 

 forewing, and the entire hindiving of a much paler yellow. 



Female. Upperside similar to the wet form. Underside. Foregoing with 

 similar black band, the apex being pale bluish-grey. Hindwing very faintly tinted 

 with glossy pale yellow, and the outer margin with pale glossy bluish-grey, and — in 

 some specimens — portions of the submarginal clusters of scales are very slightly 

 apparent. 



Expanse, S 2^\, ^ 2^^^^ io 2^% inches. 



Habitat. — (Jeylon. 



Distribution. — Cramer gives " Coromandel and Java" for his types of 

 Faulina ; his figures, however, agree only with the dry-season form of our present 

 species, consequently his localities are erroneous. This species is confined to Ceylon. 

 Mr. L. de Niceville writes that " it is found all over the Island, but is more common 

 at the commencement of the monsoons than at any other times, when it migrates in 

 immense swarms. Strangely enough it has never been bred" (J. As. Soc. Bengal, 

 1899, 217). Capt. Wade obtained it in the "Western and Central Provinces, both 



