1899.] L. de Niceville — List of the Butterjlies of Ceylon, 201 



November and December, In Colombo he has o»ily taken the tailless 

 form, which flies in November and December. Dr. Moore in Lep. Cey,, 

 vol. iii, p. 350, gives a note by Mr. E. E. Green regarding: the two forms 

 of N. noreia, from which one gathers that Mr. Green believes them to 

 repiesent distinct species. Breeding alone can satisfactorily settle the 

 point one way or the other. Mr. Thomas B. Biitt writing from Dens- 

 worth, Awissawella, Ceylon, under date the 3rd December, 1890, says : 

 *' N. ardates, tailed and tailless, is quite promiscuous here. The last fine 

 day almost that we had I took nine on or near some buffalo droppings, 

 four were tailless, five were tailed." N. noreia has a wide range in 

 India and Malay.ana, and occurs also in Northern Australia. Its larva 

 has been bred on Acacia caesia in South India. 



96. Jamides bochus, Cramer. 



A very abundant species everywhere in Ceylon, from whence it 

 was originally described, and occasionally migratory, at any rate in the 

 hills. It occurs generally in India, in Burma, and Malayana. The 

 larva feeds on Xylia and Butea in South India. 



97. Lampides elpis, Godart. 



A common seasonally dimorphic species in the middle and lower 

 hills. The larva feeds on cardamoms, and at times causes considerable 

 damage to the crop. It also eats the flowers and seeds of Ksempfseria 

 pandurata in South India. L. elpis has a very wide range in India and 

 Malayana. 



98. Lampides coruscans, Moore. 



Strictly confined to Ceylon, where it is much less common than the 

 last-named species, and found chiefly in the Kandy and Awissawella 

 districts flying in the jungle. Its transformations are unknown. 



99. Lampides lacteata, de Niceville. 



L. lacteata, de Niceville, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. x, p. 36, n. 17, pi S, 

 figs. 25, male; 2Q, female (1895) ; L. pseudelpis, Moore {nee Butler), Lep. Cey., vol. i, 

 p. 95 (1881) ; id., de Niceville, Batt. Ind., vol. iii, p. 165, n. 736 (1890). 



Apparently confined to and rare in Ceylon, Moore gives no localities 

 for it; Manders has taken it at Kandy and Labugama in May; and 

 de Niceville has two pairs only from Ceylon with no precise locality 

 recorded. It is probably frequently confounded with L. elpis, Godart, 

 and has not been bred. 



100. Lampides celeno, Cramer. 



Moore as L. dsUanus, Fabricius. Abundant everywhere, and highly 



