1899.] L. de Nicevillo— Lw-i o/ the Butterflies of Ceylon. 231 



China and Japan on the east, and throughout Malaya to Australia. 

 It is found also in Arabia. The larva feeds on rice and grasses, 



217. Parnara PHILIPPINA, Herrich-Scliaffer. 



Moore as Baoris seriata, Moore. This species is common at low- 

 elevations in Ceylon and about Kandy. It may always be known accord- 

 ing to Messrs. Elwes and Edwards' definition in both sexes by having 

 no spots in the discoidal cell of the forewing, but always with a spot 

 placed anterior to and touching the submedian nervure of that wing, 

 in the next species the latter is wanting. Moore's figure of the female 

 of Baoris kumara (Lep. Cey., vol. i, pi. Ixix, fig. 2a) applies to 

 P. philippina. Dr. A. Pagenstecher in Jahr, dea Nass. Yer. fiir Nntnr., 

 vol. xxxvii, p. 207, pi. vii, fig. I, /e/uaZe ( 1834) has described from 

 Amboina and Ceylon a Pamphila lariku, which the late Herr Carl Plotz 

 also records from both islands. This species is almost certainly the 

 same as P. philippina. P. larika is not referred to by Messrs. Elwes and 

 Edwards. Herr J. Rober records Pamphila larika, Pagenstecher, from 

 Key, and redescribes it, proposing for it the name of Pamphila stih- 

 fenestrata if distinct (vide Tijd. voor Ent., vol. xxxiv, p. 321 (1891). Mr. 

 de Niceville has received about 60 specimens of P. philippina from the 

 Ke Archipelago, some of which agree with Herr Rober's description. 

 It is a most variable species, and has been found in many parts of India, 

 in Burma and Malaya as far east as the Ke Archipelago at any rate, 

 and has also been recorded by Ribbe from the Pacific. It does not 

 appear to have been bred. 



218. Parnara kumara, Moore. 



Moore records this species from Kandy. We have no specimens of 

 it from Ceylon, nor do Messrs. Elwes and Edwards record it from thence, 

 but give it from the Nilgiris, Sikkim, Java and Borneo. It is doubt- 

 fully distinct (at any rate superficially, the prehensores as figured by 

 Elwes and Edwards are distinct enough) from the last-named we think: 

 P. philippina in the older name of the two. The larva feeds, according 

 to Aifcken, on rice, on bamboo according to Bell, 



219. Parnara conjqncta, Herrich-Schaffer. 



Moore as P. narooa, Moore. We have no specimens from Ceylon, 

 and Moore gives no exact locality for it. It occurs in many parts of 

 Ii»dia, Burma, the Malay Peninsula, the Andamans and Nicobars, 

 Sumatra, Nias, Java, Borneo, Lombok, Sumba, vSambawa, the Philippines, 

 and Hong-Kong. Moore describes the larva but does not give its food- 

 plant ; Bell says it feeds on long grasses. A synonym of this species 



