8 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



part. AntennaB with lengthened slender tip. Larva with two pair of fleshy 

 filaments. 



Type, P. Aglea, Gram. 



PARANTICA CEYLONICA (Plate 2, Fig. 2, 2a). 

 Danais Ceylonica, Felder, Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. xii. p. 479 (1862). 



Male and female. Upperside dark fuliginous-brown : forewing with a bluish- 

 white narrow discoidal streak above which are two parallel contiguous slender lines, 

 two lengthened streaks below the cell, five discal spots, two upper slender streaks and 

 three costal spots, a submarginal row of small mostly cordate spots, and a marginal 

 row of more or less indistinct smaller spots ; hindwing with broad bluish-white 

 basal streaks, regular series of discal quadrate spots, the two lower of wbich. have a 

 contiguous or continuous outer spot, an irregular submarginal and marginal row of 

 small spots ; two scent-pouches in male, a large one on lower median vein and a small 

 one on submedian vein. Head, thorax, and palpi white spotted, a dorsal streak on 

 thorax and femora beneath white ; abdomen brown above, white beneath. Underside 

 brown, markings clearer : forewing with the discoidal streaks more distinct ; above 

 the cell is a slender line, and the upper discal spot and the streak are concave 

 externally : hindwing with a black pouch-area in male. 



Expanse 3 to 3| inches. 



Larva cylindrical, reddish-purple, two black fleshy filaments on third and two on 

 twelfth segment ; two dorsal rows of round chrome-yellow spots, and a lateral row of 

 broken chrome-yeUow spots, with intervening wbite dots on each segment ; head and 

 legs black, white spotted. Pupa green, much constricted below the thorax, with 

 blue and golden scattered dots and black raised dots on upper segments. Feeds on 

 Gryptolepis, &c. 



" Found everywhere all the year in open or partiaUy cultivated places, but not 

 often in forest. Flight slow and heavy. Perhaps the commonest insect in Ceylon " 

 (Hutchison). 



Genus CHITTIRA. 



Forewing somewhat short and broad ; cost.al margin much arched, hind margin 

 long : hindwing broadly oval, very convex externally. Venation similar to Caditga. 

 Male with two scent-pouches, one spatular shaped on the submedian, accompanied by 

 the dilated or swollen vein, the other being the internal vein dilated but without any 

 adjacent spatular patch. Antennse with a tolerably thick club. 



Type, C. fumata, Butler. 



