LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



PARERONIA CEYLANICA. 



• Plate 610, figs. 1, <?, la, ?, lb, ^, Ic, ? (Wet-season Brood), Id, <?, le, ? , If, ^, Ig, ? (Dry- 

 season Brood). 



Eronia Ceylanica, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. ii. p. 191, $ only (1865). Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 1867, p. 388. 



Nepleronia Ceylanica, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 138 (1881). Manders, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 1904, p. 79. 



Pareronia Ceylanica, Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 281 (1907). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1 $, la, ?, lb, $, Ic, ?). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside bright pale blue. Forewing much as in Pingasa, the 

 median and lower vein as broadly black-striped as the same form of that species, the 

 outer marginal band not nearly so broad, but fairly uniform in width hindwards, and 

 generally containing a row of small blue streaks, the apical and medial streaks the 

 largest. Hmdwing with the exterior band broader than in the forewing and very 

 uniform, the veins about as broadly black as in Pingasa, the usual white costal space 

 with blue at its base, the next one below it tipped with white, the androconia scales 

 covering the entire outer band. Underside bright pale bluish, of a different tint to any 

 of the preceding species, the sub-costal and median veins rather broadly black, as also 

 veins 1, 2 and 3, all three ending with large black sub-marginal patches, outer band 

 space darker than the rest of the wing enclosing a series of large pale spots. Hindwing 

 almost clear, the upper vein markings showing slightly through the wing, and near the 

 outer margin is a series of pale greyish lunules. 



Female. Upperside dark blackish-brown, the sub-marginal spots smaller than 

 usual, and all the streaks in the interspaces on both wings thin, of a greyish-white 

 colour and more or less faintly indicated. Underside of a uniform dull pale blackish- 

 brown colour, the spots larger, the streaks broader and rather more clearly indicated 

 than they are above. 



Expanse, $ 3x%, ? 3^ inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. Id, $, le, ?, If, ^, Ig, ?). 



J\lale. Similar to the other form, on the uppersides the veins are much less 

 heavily marked, and the outer band is much narrower and tapers somewhat hindwards 

 on the forewing, on the underside it is duller in colour, the forewing has normal vein 

 markings, and the patches at the ends of the veins 2, 3 and 4 are small. Hindwing 

 without markings. 



Female. Upperside with the stripes much broader and the spots larger. Under- 

 side whitish faintly tinged with blue, the stripes on both wings very broad, the inner 



