12 THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF CEYLON. 



segment transversely oarred witli narrow white lines, lateral band pinkisli-wliite with 

 black and red dots ; abdominal line black ; head and legs black, streaked with white. 

 Pupa golden-yellow, constricted below the thorax, streaked and banded with brown, 

 dorsal segments black spotted. Feeds on Nerium oleander, &c. 



" Found everywhere, in the plains and up to 6000 feet, in forest or open ground. 

 At Colombo it occurs from October to January ; elsewhere all the year. Flight 

 slow, heavy. Often comes into the house in numbers, sometimes settling on one's 

 clothes " (Hutchison). 



EUPL(EA FRAUENFELDI. 



EupJaea FraiienfeldijFeUer, Verh. Zool. Bot. Gesc. 1862, p. 479, $ ; Reise Novara Lep. ii. pi. 41, f. 4. 

 Euplosa Esperi, Feld. Verh. Zool. Bot. Gesc. 1862, p. 482 j . 



Male. TJpperside blackish purple-brown : forewing blue glossed, a very small 

 white costal spot above end of the cell, a spot between first upper and second median 

 veins, a submarginal series of spots curving from apex, and a lower marginal series of 

 smaller spots, a slender short sericeous streak below the lower median vein : hindwing 

 unmarked, except that it indistinctly shows a submarginal and marginal series of 

 pale brown spots. Underside dark olive-brown : forewing with a bluish costal spot, 

 a spot at lower end of the cell, a spot between the upper and second median veins, 

 and a larger elongated white spot below it, the sexual streak and posterior margin 

 being brownish-white, submarginal and marginal spots as above : hindwing with a 

 minute bluish spot at end of the cell and a contiguous discal series of spots, a 

 marginal series of small white spots and a submarginal anal series of three or four 

 spots. Body black, head, thorax, palpi, and abdomen beneath white spotted, legs black. 



Expanse 4 inches. 



Taken at Trincomalee, on the N.B. side of the island. 



ETJPLffiA SCHERZERI. 



Euplma Scherzeri, Felder, Verh. Zool. Bot. Gesc. 1862, p. 479; Reise Novara Lep. ii. p. 335. 



Male. TJpperside purplish olive-brown, darkest on basal area : forewing with a 

 minute white subapical spot, and a lengthened sericeous streak between lower median 

 and submedian veins : hindwing with a subapical series of three small very indistinct 

 pale brown spots. Underside paler : forewing with a bluish-white small costal spot, 

 one at lower end of the cell, two Deyond, and an elongated lower spot, three or four 

 submarginal spots below the apex : hindwing with a small bluish-white spot at lower 

 end of the cell, a contiguous discal series, three upper submarginal spots and a 

 marginal lower series of spots. Body black, thorax, head, palpi, and abdomen 

 beneath wliite spotted, legs black. 



Expanse 3^ inches. 



