30 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



bordered witb purple and black ; a basal white-bordered black line, a submarginal 

 row of purple- white lunular spots bordered outwardly by black and ochreous. 



Expanse 2^ inches. 



Larva elongated, thickened in the middle, dark green ; head large, wide, 

 flattened, surmounted by four spinous processes ; last segment with two short naked 

 points ; the segments with an oblique yellowish- white stripe most prominent on the 

 seventh, ninth, and eleventh, beneath these a lateral series of small white spots. 

 Pupa cyhndrical, back and thorax convex, head truncated, pointed in front ; green, 

 streaked with white. Feeds on Gcesalpinia. 



" Taken at Colombo and Kandy. Males most frequently found perched high up 

 on acacia-trees. Flight quick and strong. Common " {Wade). 



Genus HARIDRA. 



Similar in form and venation to Gharaxes ; hindwing more convex externally, 

 costal margin shorter, costal vein more curved ; a short tail only from end of the 

 upper median vein. 



HARIDRA PSAPHON (Plate 15, Fig. 2). 

 Gharaxes Psaphon, Westwood, Cabinet of Oriental Entom. p. 43, pi. 21, f. 1, 2 (1848), $ . 



Male. Upperside fulvous-red : forewing with the outer half purple-black, a 

 discocellular red-lined black mark, and some indistinct black discoidal streaks : 

 hindwing with a very broad apical submarginal black band attenuated and broken 

 hindward and ending in two small white-bordered anal spots, a short curved black 

 streak from the costa. Underside fulvous-brown, washed with purple-grey, crossed 

 by three basal and two discal zigzag black lines with pale borders : forewing with a 

 submarginal blackish macular fascia, and hindwing with a lunular fascia and marginal 

 row of small black pointed white anchor-shaped marks. 



Female unknown. 



Expanse, $ 3f inches. 



" Taken near Trincomalee in August, fluttering over the ground on the edge of 

 forest jungle" (flitfc/mo?^). 



Also found at Kandy. {Wade.) 



HARIDRA SERENDIBA (Plate 15, Fig. 3, ? ). 



Female. Upperside deep fulvous-red : forewing with a broad transverse medial 

 discal purple-white band, showing some dusky sinuous streaks of the underside, and 



