42 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



curving across the cell towards the anal angle, and merging into brown on the 

 abdominal margin ; two ocelli near the outer margin, the lower red and ringed with 

 black, the upper almost black and blind ; two pale-bordered marginal lines. 



Female differs in the hindwing having the basal half entirely black, both the 

 ocelli being large and of a bright red. Underside dull ochreous : forewiug with three 

 transverse basal ochreous-red bands bordered with black ; a discal sinuous black 

 fascia and pale outer lunular fascise ; ocelh less distinct : hindwing with narrow 

 brown transverse sinuous lines and a brownish discal fascia; ocelli very pale and 

 indistinct. 



Expanse, <? If, 2 2 inches. 



Larva dark pui^ple-brown, each segment with short branched spines, two lateral 

 rows of small yellow spots. Pupa ochreous, speckled and lined with dark brown. 

 Feeds on Acanthads. 



" Found at all times in the "Western and Central Provinces, both in the plains 

 and up to 3000 feet in cultivated and open waste ground. Flight rather quick; 

 settles on the ground and seems partial to hot, dusty, and sandy spots " {Hutchison). 



"Occurs everywhere, but plentiful only from 2000 to 4000 feet; its favourite 

 resort being the Patenas, and particularly on the pathways or bare places in them " 

 {Machwood). 



" Taken at Kandy and Galle " (Wade). 



JUNONIA (ENONE (Plate 22, Fig. S, 3 a, $ g ). 



Papilio CEnonc, Linnteus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 770 (1767); Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 35, f. A, B, C ; 



Donovan, Ins. Cliina, pi. 38, f. 1 ; Fabricius, Eut. Syst. iii. p 90. 

 Junonia CEnone, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 34 ; Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 72. 

 Papilio Eierta, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. v. p. 424 (1798). 



Male. Upperside black : forewing with a broad medial ochreous patch, extending 

 from the base to beyond the disc, and thence narrowed and bent downward ; two 

 short paler ochreous streaks before the apex : hindwing black, with a large broad . 

 subanal ochreous patch, and a large distinct blue subbasal spot. 



Female. Upperside dark ochreous-brown, with the ochreous patch paler^ 

 shortened basally, and crossed by two black lines on middle of the cell, and a broader 

 discocellular band ; a black upper ocellus and a larger lower discal ocellus ; hindwing 

 with a very small upper and lower discal ocellus, and two marginal lunular ochreous 

 lines. Underside : forewing pale ochreoiis-brown ; medial patch paler ochreous and 

 suffused outwardly; crossed by black discoidal lines; two black discal spots: 



