40 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



and marginal lunular dark line ; cilia white streaked. Underside darker brown, tlie 

 basal area crossed by three indistinct chalybeate-grey fascige, a discal divisional pale- 

 bordered line which is sinuous on the forewing and straight on the hindwing ; ocelli 

 less distinct than above ; submarginal and marginal lunular line with pale borders. 

 Expanse 2-j^ inches. 



Taken at Kandy. ( Wade.) 



Larva cylindrical, dark brown, with dorsal and lateral rows of short dehcate 

 branched spines. Pupa short, with tubercular points on dorsal segments, thorax 

 broad. 



PRECIS LAOMEDIA (Plate 21, Fig. 2). 



Papilio Laomedia, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 772 (1767) ; Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. pi. 5, f. 3 ; 



Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 8, f. F, G ; Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 494. 

 Junonia Laomedia, Butler, Catal. Fah: Lep. B. M. p. 77. 



Male and female pale purple-grey : forewing with two black sinuous marks 

 across the cell, a transverse discal deeply- sinuous line, two marginal and a cilial 

 lunular line ; a medial discal series of six various-sized white-circled ocelli and 

 apical white dentate marks, the ocelli with more or less transversely particoloured 

 (red and black) centres and mostly blind : hindwing with a less deeply sinuous black 

 discal line, two marginal and a cilial lunular line, a discocellular mark, and a medial 

 discal row of five similar ocelli. Underside ochreous-white, crossed by narrow brown 

 sinuous basal, discal, and less distinct marginal lines ; two ocelli prominent on each 

 wing. 



Expanse 2f inches. 



Occurs at Kandy and Galle. {Wade.) 



Genus JUNONIA. 



Junonia, Hubner, "Verz. bek. Sclimett. p. 34, (1816) ; Doubleday, Gen. D. Lep. p. 206. 



Scarcely differs from Precis ; it is similar in outline, except that in some species 

 the hindwing is angled at the middle of the exterior margin ; the venation is the 

 same, excepting that the lower discocellular vein is quite obsolete in both wings. 



