16 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



or four lower submarginal small wliite spots. Underside ferruginous ; strigge, 

 transverse fascige, and outer border dark ferruginous, subapical spots on forewing and 

 submarginal spots on bindwing -with double rings and wMtisb centre, tbe penultimate 

 subapical spot witb a contiguous inner larger wbitisli spot. Body brown, legs 

 ferruginous. 



Expanse, $ 2^, 2 2f inches. 



Larva elongated, thickened in tbe middle ; bead with two long pubescent red 

 processes ; last segment also with two processes ; green with longitudinal and 

 transverse darker lines ; face striped with red. Pupa green, head and thorax 

 flattened. 



" Found in the western and central provinces. Plains and up to 3000 feet. 

 June to September. Habits same as M. Leda" {Hutchison). 



Genus LETHE. 



Lethe, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 56 (1816). 



Debis, Doubleday and Westwood, Gen. Diurnal Lep. p. 358 (1851). 



Wings short ; broad : forewings triangular, costa arched, apex convex, exterior 

 margin oblique, waved, posterior margin long, straight ; first and second subcostal 

 branches emitted close to end of the cell, third at one-half beyond, fourth and fifth 

 at one-third from the apex ; upper discocellular shortest, bent outward and inward 

 close to subcostal, lower slender recurved outward ; upper radial from outward angle, 

 lower from their middle angle ; cell broad ; median branches equidistant and wide 

 apart ; submedian nearly straight : hindwing, costa short, convex at base, exterior 

 margin sinuous, prolonged into a blunt tail at end of upper median, abdominal 

 margin long ; costal vein curved and extending to apex, with a short curved basal 

 spur ; subcostal bent close to costal near its base, first branch curved towards its 

 end ; discocellulars oblique, concave, lower slender ; radial from their middle ; cell 

 broad; two upper median branches from end of the cell; submedian extending to 

 posterior angle ; internal vein short. Body short, thorax robust ; palpi porrect, 

 slender, pilose beneath ; legs rather short, squamose ; antennae slender. 



LETHE NEELGHERRIENSIS (Plate 7, Fig. 1, la). 



Cyllo Neelgherriensis, Guerin, Delessert's Voyage dans I'lude, pt. 2, p. 74, pi. 21, f. 1, la (1843). 

 Debis Neelgherriensis, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iii. p. 75, Deb. pi. 2, f. 6, j . 



Upperside dull dark olive-brown. Male : forewing with two apical small 

 ochreous-white spots, a subapical larger spot, and a less distinct spot between the 

 second and third median veins, between these the ocelli of the underside are indis- 

 tinctly visible, a marginal double indistinct dusky lunular line : hindwing with two 



