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JTJNONIA lEMONIAS (Plate 21, Fig. 3, 3a, ^ g )• 



Papilio Lemonias, Linnsus, Mus. Ulr. p. 277 (1764); Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 770 (1767); Fabricius, Ent. 



Syst. iii. p. 90. 

 Junonia Lemonias, Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 74. 

 Papilio Aonis, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 35, f. D— F; Sulzer, Gesch. Ins. pi. 16, f. 7. 



Male and female. Upperside greyish olive-brown : forewing with two sinuous 

 black-lined marks and two contiguous ochreous-yellow marks within the cell ; two 

 series of blackish-bordered ochreous-yellow transverse discal spots enclosing an 

 mdistmct brown upper and a larger prominent lower red ocellus ; a marginal and 

 ciHal ochreous-yellow lunular hue : hindwing with a large apical red ocellus enclosing 

 a minute indistinct upper and lower spot ; an indistinct black discocellular mark ; 

 two marginal black lunular lines with pale ochreous-yellow borders. Underside 

 yellowish-ochreous ; crossed by basal and discal dusky fascise and marginal lunular 

 lines, the fasciiB on basal area sinuous, that crossing the disc of the hindwing nearly 

 straight and bordering a row of pale-bordered black points; a blind lower ocellus on 

 forewing. 



Expanse, $ 2J-, 9 2f . 



Larva cyUndrical, smoky black, with a pale dorsal band and paler lateral lower 

 shade ; each segment with eight small branched spines. 



" Occurs in the Eastern and Western Provinces, in low country forests and 

 cultivated ground. Found occasionally, at uncertain intervals, at Colombo, more 

 common on road to Trincomalie. Flight quick; settles on the ground" {Eutcliison) . 



" A low country insect, more numerous in the interior than near the sea coast " 

 {Mackwood). 



" Taken at Kandy " (Wade). 



JUNONIA ORITHYA (Plate 22, Fig. 1 a, b). 



Papilio Orithya, Linnseus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 770 (1767); Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 19, f. C, D, 9, 

 pi. 32, f. E, F, S ; iv. pi. 290, f. A, B, $ ; Douovan, Ins. China, pi. 37, f. 1, 2 . 



Junonia Orithya, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 34 ; Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. 1, p, 141, 

 pi. 5, f. 5, 5 a; Butler, Ca'il. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 73. 



Junonia Ocyale, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 34. 



Male. Upperside : forewing dark blue-black from base to the disc, outer area 

 fuliginous-black; a purple-tinted ochreous-white short oblique subapical band, and 

 two transverse submarginal narrow lunular fascia ; on the inner fascia are two small 

 red-ringed ocelli, below which the posterior angle is tinged with blue ; costal edge 

 ochreous-white : hindwing blue, suffused with purple ; a black basal angular patch 

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