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always common, it is hardly possible that tliey can have been over- 

 looked during all these years in a small island that has been thoroughly 

 well worked for Lepidoptera. Neither is it probable that they have 

 been exterminated, and still less probable that single immigrant 

 specimens should have been captured on tlie occasion of the '* Novara's " 

 visit. The Trincomalee specimen ^ almost certainly wrongly ticketed. 



10. Edpl(EA corus, Fabricius. 



Moore as Macroploea elisa, Butler. It is peculiar to Ceylon, on species 

 of the subgenus being found in peninsular or continental India, though 

 an allied species, E. castelnaai, Felder, occurs in the Malay Peninsula, 

 Sumatra and the Nicobars. The Burmese form of E. castelnaui has 

 recently been named Macroplcea corns vitrina by Fruhstorfer. In Ceylon 

 E. corus is common at Galle, Labugama, and doubtless also in the 

 intervening districts in June and July and again in November and 

 December. Formerly it was found on Crow Island and other places 

 in the immediate neighbourhood of Colombo. It is one of the largest 

 butterflies of Ceylon, and from its dull brown colour, its slow flapping 

 flight, and its love of deep shady jungle, might easily when flying be 

 mistaken for a bat. Dr. Moore has figured the larva and pupa, but the 

 food-plant of the former appears to be unknown. 



11. EuPL(EA (Pademma) sinhala, Moore. 



Moore as Isamia sinhala. It is an insular race of the peninsular 

 and continental E, kollari, Felder. Found in the low country and up 

 to about 3,000 feet but not commonly. Manders took it once at Colombo 

 on ground now built over. From its superficial resemblance to the 

 common E. asela, Moore, it may very easily be overlooked. Its trans- 

 formations are unknown. 



12. EuPL(EA (Narmada) Montana, Felder. 



Peculiar to Ceylon, but it has a near ally in the South Indian 

 E. coreoides, Moore, which on the east coast occurs as far north as Orissa, 

 and is a synonym of the much older E. coreta of Godart. E. montana 

 is not uncommon at certain seasons, and occasionally migrates in great 

 numbers with E. asela^ Moore, of which it is a mimic in the miillerian 

 sense, but may be distinguished from E, asela even in flight by its 

 more rounded wings. It is found at all elevations, and has been taken 

 rarely in the outskirts of Colombo, more commonly at Kandy, and 

 abundantly at Nuwara Eliya in May. Its larva and pupa are still un- 

 discovered. 



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