10 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



uniformly paler, all the spots on botla -wings are ochreous and less prominent : under- 

 side duller coloured, tlie spots on both wings wMte and more prominent, the discal 

 series extending from the costal to the abdominal border, and the two marginal rows 

 extending to anal angle; posterior border of forewing broadly ochreous-white. 

 Head, front of thorax, and palpi black, spotted with white, legs black, thorax above 

 dark brown with dorsal white streak, abdomen dark brown. 



Expanse, ^ 4:^, 5 4 inches. 



Laiwa* purple-brown, with two black-tipped red fleshy filaments on second, two 

 on third, and two on twelfth segments, each segment with transverse black streaks ; 

 lateral line purple, head and legs black. Pupa thick, broad, purple-grey, fasciated 

 with golden-yellow, abdominal segments black beaded. Feeds on ? 



" Taken on low ground at Colombo among hedges round native gardens at any 

 time, but not very common. Of slow, heavy flight ; settles on leaves and easily 

 caught " (Hutchison). 



" Commonly found at Galle among cocoanut-trees and low bushes " (Wade). 



Genus ISAMIA. 



"Wings large, broad : forewing in male elongated, somewhat quadrate, apex 

 slightly acuminate, exterior margin oblique, waved, posterior margin convex, with a 

 large sericeous streak betAveen the lower median and submedian veins : hindwing 

 triangular, costa long, convex, extei'ior margin convex, waved, a moderate-sized pale 

 ujjper-discoidal patch. 



Type, I. superba, Herbst. 



ISAMIA SINHALA (Plate 5, Fig. 1 i ). 

 Eup'lcea SiriUdla, Moore, Annals and Mag, of Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 45. 



Male. Upperside dark velvety olive-brown, external margins paler : forewiug with 

 a short broad oval sericeous streak between the lower median and submedian veins, 

 a submarginal row of small ochreous-white spots and marginal lower row of minute 

 spots : hindwing with a broad flesh-coloured discoidal patch ; costal border broadly 

 cinereous, a submarginal series of oval ochreous-white spots and marginal series of 

 small round spots. Underside paler olive-brown throughout : forewing with hind 

 margin broadly cinereous, the sexual mark dusky ; a curved discal series of whitish 

 spots near the Cell ; both wings with a submarginal and marginal series of spots as 

 above. Body black, thorax, head, palpi arid forelegs white spotted. 



* Figured on Plate iv. Catal. Lep. Mas. E-.I.C. i. from drawings by E. L. Lajard, as the larva of 

 E. Prothoe. 



