NYMPHALIN^. 43 



hindwing witli basal lialf greyisli-oclireous ; discal area pale ocbreous ; crossed with 

 brown lunular lines, a medial fascia, and discal row of small brown spots. 

 Expanse 2 inches. 



"A scarce, low country insect" (MacJcwood). Also taken at "Kandy and 

 Dambool. Scarce" (Wade). 



JUNONIA ASTERIE (Plate 22, Fig. 2). 



Papilio Asterie, Jj'mnxus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 769 (1767); Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 58, f. D, E ; 



Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 89. 

 Alcyoneis Asterie, Hiibuer, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 35. 

 Junonia Asterie, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. 1, p. 142, pi. 5, f. 6, 6 a ; Butler, Catal, Fabr. 



Lep. B. M. p. 72. 

 Junonia Nicohariensis et Javana, Felder, Verb. Zool. Bot. Gesch. xii. pp. 482, 487 (1862). 



Male and female. Upperside pale feri'uginous : forewing with the costal and 

 exterior borders reddish-brown; two black waved narrow lines across middle of the 

 cell, two wider confluent lines at its end, a curved streak beyond, and a subapical 

 streak containing two indistinct small ocelli ; a prominent lower discal ocellus : 

 hindwing with a large very prominent upper discal bipupilled ocellus, and a very 

 indistinct small lower ocellus ; both wings with two brown marginal lunular lines. 

 Underside pale reddish-ochreous ; forewing with black basal sinuous lines, a pale- 

 bordered discal line, distinct ocelli, and marginal lines : hindwing with a subbasal 

 black line, a straight pale-bordered discal line, a duplex upper discal ocellus, a single 

 lower ocellus, and marginal waved lines. 



Expanse 2|- inches. 



" Found in the Plains of the Western Provinces, in open and waste land among 

 shrubs. Habits like those of /. OritJiya, but quicker in flight and more shy" 

 (Hutchison). 



" Found all the year round. Plains, and up to 4000 feet; very abundant about 

 September to November" (Mackwood). 



"Taken at Galle and Kandy; sits on roads and paths basking in the sun" 

 (Wade). 



Genus ERGOLIS. 



Ergolis, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. 1, t. 4, f. 4 (1836). 

 Ariadne, Horsfield, Desc. Catal. Lep. E. L C. pi. 6 (1829). 



"Wings short ; forewing elongated ; costa much arched at the base, apex acute, 

 exterior margin more or less sinuous and angled obhquely outward below the apex, 



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