4 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



longer tlian in allied genera, and with a more gradually thickened and blunt club. 

 Larva [B. Juventa) with two pair of fleshy filaments. 

 Ty2:)e, R. similis, Linn. 



RADENA EXPROMPTA (Plate 2, Fig. 1). 

 Danais exprompta, Butler, Entomologist's Monthly Mag. xi. p. 164 (1874). 



Male and female. Upperside blackish-brown, abdominal margin pale brown : 

 forewing with a pale blue narrow discoidal streak and a large sinuous quadrate spot 

 beyond it, a slender costal streak, two streaks below the cell and a slender basal 

 streak on hind margin, two large discal spots, three small upper spots, and five 

 subapical spots the upper three of which are slender, a submarginal regular series of 

 seven small spots, and a marginal row of minute spots : hindwing with pale blue 

 broad basal streaks, large discal spots, an irregular submarginal and marginal row of 

 small spots ; no scent-pouch in male. Head, thoras, and palpi white spotted, femora 

 beneath streaked with white ; abdomen brown above, paler beneath. Underside : 

 forewing dark brown : hindwing umber-brown ; markings as above but paler. 



Expanse 2| to 3 inches. 



" Common in Kottawa forest, but have not seen it elsewhere " (Wade). 



Genus TIRUMALA. 



Danais (part), Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 10, 172. 



Forewing broad, triangular ; first branch of subcostal emitted at one-fifth before 

 end of the cell and free from the costal, second branch from end of the cell ; hind- 

 wing broadly oval, exterior margin very convex ; costal vein slightly curved ; cell 

 short, anteriorly oblique ; second subcostal branch starting from nearer the first, and 

 upper median nearer the middle branch, than in Badena. Male with an open scent- 

 pouch between tue lower median and submedian veins, the pendant sac of which is 

 prominent on the underside. Antennge shorter than in Badena, the club shorter and 

 tip more pointed. Larva with two pair of fleshy filaments. 



Type, T. Limniacse, Gram. 



TIRUMALA LIMNIAC-E (Plate 1, Fig. 3). 



Papilio Limniacce, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 59, f. D, E (1779). 

 Danais Limniacae, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 191. 

 Papilio similis (part), Fabricius, Eiit. Syst. iii. p. 58. 

 Danais leopardns, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 52. 



Male and female. Upperside brownish-black ; forewing with a greenish-white 

 discoidal streak and constricted spot beyond, a lengthened spot and a lower streak 

 beneath the cell which are sometimes confluent and also with the lower discal spot. 



