1899.] L. de Niceville— iu'^ of the Butterflies of Ceylon. 187 



Sab family Nymph alin^. 



Dr, Moore divides the subfamily into eigbt groups, Gharaxina, 

 Potamina {ApaturidaSj auctorura), Euthaliina^ Limenitina^ Nymphalina^ 

 Argynnina, Melitseina, and Eurytelina, As far as we can we have fol- 

 lowed him, but up to date several of his groups have not been reached 

 in Lep. Iiid. 



Group Charaxuia. 



30. Charaxbs psaphon, Westwood. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild in Novitates Zoologicae, vol. v, p. 545 



(1898) has commenced a paper entitled "A Monograph of Charaxes 

 and the allied prionopterous genera," but as two parts, which have 

 alone been published up to the present date, only include one species 

 from Ceylon, we are only able to follow him so far. He sajs the type 

 of Charaxes is jason, Linnaeus, and of Eulepis is samatha^ Moore. He 

 admits three other genera, Euxanthe^ Palla, and a new genus, the 

 types of these being eurinow.e, Cramer, decius, Cramer, and trojanus, 

 ? author. The two first would appear to contain our Ceylonese species. 



In Lep. Cey. Moore gives Haridra psaphon, Westwood, male only, 

 and Haridra eerendiba, Moore, female only, these two names represent- 

 ing opposite sexes of one and the same species. It is confined to 

 Ceylon, but has a close ally in the South Indian C. imna, Butler. Ifc 

 is not very rare near Kandy, and Moore records it from Trincomali, 

 Kottawa, Awissawella and Kanthalla. It may be useful to collectors 

 to note that toddy or rum and sugar spread upon tree trunks in the 

 haunt of Charaxes and Euthalias often proves a very successful bait. 

 The female is very rarely met with. The transformations of G. psaphon 

 are unknown. 



31. Charaxes fabius, Fabricius. 



Abundant on the North Central Road and low forest land generally 

 in that Province, but not rea(3hing the middle hill district. It is found 

 in many parts of India and in Burma. Its transformations are well 

 known, and the larva feeds on the tamarind tree, Tamarindus indica, 



32. Edlepis athamas, Drury, 



Moore as Eulepis samatha, Moore, and sunk by him in Lep. Ind. 

 as a synonym of E. athamas, Rothschild in Nov. Zool., vol. vi, p. 249 



(1899) records it from Ceylon as " Eulepis athamas agrarius f. (temp. ?) 

 madeus, Rothschild." Not at all rare in jungle in the lower hill district. 

 It is very common in the neighbourhood of Kandy at the beginning of 



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