192 L. de Niceville — List of the Butterflies of Ceylon. [No. 3, 



53. CiRRHOCHROA THAIS, Fabrlcius. 



54. CiRRHOCHROA LANKA, Moore. 



55. CiRRHOCHKOA COGNATA, Moore. 



56. CiRRHOCHROA swiNHOEi, Bufcler. 



It is impossible in the present state of our knowledge to be at all 

 certain, much less dogmatic, as to how many species of GirrJwchroa exist 

 in South India and Ceylon. From the other species of Cirrhochroa 

 found in North-East India all of them can be at once distingaished by 

 their smaller size and deep ferruginous colour, except C. swinhoei, Butler, 

 which is more ochreous. According to Moore, C. thais occurs in Ceylon, 

 but de Niceville states in Butt. Ind. that the description given by Fabri- 

 cius applies best to G. thais from Southern India, and that the Ceylonese 

 C. cognata is a local race of it. In a similar way G. lanha is a local race 

 of the South Indian G. relata, de Niceville. 0. swinhoei is not given by 

 Moore as occurring in Ceylon, but de Niceville states that he has speci- 

 mens from thence. This is a problem to which local entomologists 

 should turn their attention and endeavour to solve by breeding the 

 various species, and by examining a large number of specimens from as 

 many localities in Cejlon and Southern India as possible. They occur 

 all over Ceylon, from sea-level to 6,000 feet elevation. The imagines 

 are probably seasonally dimorphic, which will account for their vagaries, 

 in coloration and markings. The transformations of G. cognata have 

 been described, but no food-plant is recorded. In South India C. thais 

 has been bred on Sydrocarjpus wightiana. 



57. Htpolimnas bolina, Linnaeus. 



We omit Apatura jacintha, Drury, recorded as a distinct species by 

 Moore from Ceylon, as it is in our opinion not distinct from the parent 

 form. H. bolina is common everywhere in Ceylon and almost tliroughout 

 Southern Asia, Malayana, Australia to the Pacific. Its transformations 

 are well known. 



58. Hypolimnas misippus, Linnaeus. 



The female of this species is totally unlike the male and exists in 

 two forms, the first being the Papilio diocippus of Cramer, a perfect 

 mimic of Danais chrysippus, Linnaeus, and is by far the more common of 

 the two ; the second is the Papilio inaria of Cramer, a mimic of Danais 

 dorippus, King, and is distinctly rare. It is curious that it should occur 

 in Ceylon at all, as D. dorippus is not found in the Island, being 

 confined in India to the western littoral (Bombay, Kutch and Sind). 



