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and at equal distance above posterior end, posterior margin long ; cell short, broad ; 

 costal vein dilated at its base ; first and second subcostal brancbes short, slender, 

 first emitted at some distance before end of the cell, second from immediately above 

 end of the cell, third from its end, trifid, the fourth. branch starting from one-half its 

 length, and fifth from one-half below the fourth ; upper discocellular short, angled 

 outward close to subcostal and concave below the angle, upper radial from the angle 

 and lower fi-om the end, lower discocellular very slender, long, slightly concave at its 

 end; two upper median branches from end of the cell, lower from opposite first 

 subcostal : hindwing broad, costal margin short, exterior margin very convex, more 

 or less sinuous ; costal vein with a short curved basal spur, widely apart from the 

 subcostal ; first subcostal emitted before end of the cell ; upper discocellular short, 

 outwardly concave, radial from its end, lower discocellular obliquely recurved ; two 

 upper median branches from end of the cell, lower branch from opposite first 

 subcostal. Body moderate ; legs slender ; palpi porrect, finely pilose, second joint 

 very long and extending half its length beyond the head, third joint half its length 

 and somewhat cylindrical ; antenna, with a slender club. 

 Type, E. Ariadne. 



EEGOLIS MINORATA (Plate 23, Fig. 2, 2a). 



Male and female. Upperside dark ferruginous ; both wings with two short 

 black waved lines across base of the cell, a subbasal line, a discocellular line, a medial 

 line, two discal lines, and a marginal line ; a small white costal spot before the apex 

 in both sexes. Underside dark purple-brown, with the black lines less distinct, and 

 with four purple-grey intervening spaces ; apical spot distinct. 



Expanse, $ If, 2 1| inch. 



" Found in low country, and hills up to 4000. Less common than E. Taprohana. 

 May to June in greatest number " (Mackwood). 

 "Kandy" {Wade). 



EEGOLIS TAPROBANA (Plate 23, Fig. 1 a, 5, ^ 9 ). 

 ErgoUs Taprohana, Westwood, Geu. Diurn. Lep. p. 410, pi. 68, f. 4 (1851). 



Male and female. TJpperside dark ferruginous ; both wings crossed, by four or 

 five basal black sinuous lines, a discocellular double-line, two medial, two discal, and 

 a marginal line, the discal interspaced with indistinct black-speckled spots ; the lines 

 obsolete on costal border of hindwing ; a small white costal spot near the apex of 

 female. Underside dark purple-brown, palest on outer borders ; transverse sinuous 

 lints indistinct in male, but very distinct and with four intervening spaces sufi"used 

 with chalybeate grey in the female. 



Expanse, ^ 1 1, 9 2J^ inches. 



