1899.] L. do Nicovillc— Lu-^ o/ the Butterjlics of Ceijlon. 225 



188. Celzenorrhinus spilothyrus, Felder. 



Moore as Flesioncura spilothyrus. A low hill district insect, 

 common in the neighbourhood of Kandy. Messrs. Elwos and Edwards 

 record it from South India and Java as well as from Ceylon. The hirva 

 feeds on Acanthus. 



189. Sarangesa Ai.DiciLiA, Moore. 



Occurs at Triucomaliin March and June, at Kandy and at Lagalhi, 

 and is widely distributed in the lower hill distiictj^ of Ceylon. Mr. 

 Muckwood gives May and June as its months of emergence. It is 

 confined to Ceylon and has not been bred. The late Herr Cail Piotz 

 has described Avfigo^riis sezendis from Ceylon in I3eil. Ent. Zeitsch., 

 vol. xxix, p. 230, n. 27 (1885) ; idem, id., Stet. Ent. Zeit., vol. xlvii, 

 p. 112, n. 496 (1886). From a coloured drawing kindly made for 

 de Niceville by Herr G. Weyraer from the type specimen in Herr 

 Carl Hibbe's collection, it is quite evident that this species is the same 

 as 8. albicilia. A. sezendis is omitted by Messrs. Eiwes and Edwards 

 from their monograph of the oriental Eesperiidse. 



190. COLADENIA INDRANI, Moore. 



Moore as G. tissa, Moore. Messrs. Elwes and Edwards restrict 

 C. tissa to Ceylon, whence it was originally de.scril)ed, noting that 

 " Though otherwise closely resembling the preceding [0. mdra7n'], and 

 probably just as variable in colour, may be known in both sexes by the 

 distinct displacement inwards of the middle one of the three pale spots 

 which form the subapical series [of the fore wing]. The difference of 

 the male genitalia of the two species are merely those of degree." In a 

 large series of this species in de Niceville's collectitm from many parts of 

 India and Burma it is obvious that this character is as inconstant as the 

 other markings, and is quite insufficient to discriminate the two species. 

 C. indrani is seasonally dimorphic, true 0. indrani being the wet, 

 C tissa the dry -season form. In Ceylon it is not uncommon in the 

 lower hill district about Kandy ; Mackwood recording it also from 

 Badulla and Kaduganawa. The larva feeds on Xylia dolahriformis^ 

 Benth., Grewia microco9, Linn., and many other plants of different 

 orders, in South India. Herr Carl Piotz has in Berl. Ent. Zeitsch., 

 vol. xxix, p. 225, n. 1 (1885), described this species from Ceylon as 

 Proteides lankse, redescribing it in Stet. Ent. Zeit., vol. xlvii, p. 85, 

 n. 8 (1886). From a coloured drawing of the type in Herr Carl 

 Ribbe's collection made for de Niceville by Herr G. Weymer, it is 

 evident that this species is the same as G. inJrani. P. lankse is 

 not mentioned by Messrs. Elwes and Edwards. 



