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and November. Usually flies over the tops of bushes overhanging hill 

 streams, and is consequently difficult to capture. The females are much 

 scarcer than the males and keep more to the jungle. It is found also in 

 the Nilgiri Hills of South India, but has never been bred. 



82. Ctanieis LANKA, Moore. 



Peculiar to Ceylon. Very common in the upper hill districts 

 neai'ly all the year round, and the males may be seen in numbers settled 

 on damp spots on the roads. The females are more usually met with 

 fluttering about tea bushes and low-growing jungle bushes. Its trans- 

 formations are unknown. 



83. Cyaniris limbatus, Moore. 



This species is not given by Moore in his Lep. Ceylon. " It is very 

 near to G. lanka, Moore, the latter, however, in the male being still 

 darker on the upperside, the narrow black border still narrower, and 

 the discal series of spots on the underside of the forewing arranged 

 almost in a connected line, not well-separated and irregularly-placed as 

 in C- limbatus, [this is very distinctive]. It differs from C. singalensis, 

 Felder, only in the colour of the upperside in the male being of a 

 deeper shade; the markings of the underside in that species are perha.ps 

 placed rather more in echelon." {de Niceville, Butt. Ind., vol. iii, p. 109). 

 It is found in the hill districts but not at the same elevation as 

 C. singalensis, Felder, or G. hinlca, Moore, Manders notes that he has not 

 met with it in Nuwara Eliya or on the Horton Plains where the 

 latter swarms. It is found in South India, Bengal, the Khasi Hills, and 

 N.-E. Sumatra. Its transformations are unknown. 



84. ZiZERA LYSiMON, Hiibner. 



Moore as Z. karsnndra, Moore. Abundant nearly all the year 

 round in the low country. Very widely spread, found in Europe, 

 .Africa, Teneriffe, Bourbon, Johanna, the Canary Islands, Mauritius, 

 Madao:ascar, Arabia, almost throughout Southern Asia, and Malayana 

 to Australia. It is seasonally dimorphic, the form flying in the rains 

 being usually larger and much darker than that found in the dry- 

 season. The larva feeds on Amarantus. 



85. ZiZERA GAIKA, Trimen. 



Moore as Z. pygvisea, Snellen, but Trimen's name has 14 years 

 priority. Found in Ceyloti in the same localities as the last, but is not 

 so ahundant. Found almost throughout Africa, Arabia, India and from 

 Malayana to the Pacific. It has been bred on Nelsonia in South India. 



