48 TEE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



half its lengtla in front of head, third joint very short and pointed, very shghtly pilose 

 beneath at upper end ; legs slender; antennse with a lengthened slender club. 

 Type, M. Procris. 



MODUZA CAIIDASA (Plate 25, Fig. 1, la). 

 Limenitis Calidasa, Moore, Annals of Nat Hist. 1858, p. 48 ; Butler, id. 1866, p. 285. 



Male and female. Upperside dark rufous-brown, basal area suffused with olive- 

 brown ; forewing with a discal transverse series of bluish-white irregular- shaped 

 spots, which continue in a band across the hindwing ; both wings with basal black 

 streaks, and two submarginal series of black lunules interspaced with dull red; 

 marginal black lunular lines bordered with pale brown. Underside : basal area 

 bluish-grey, outer area pale greyish-purple ; discal macular band as above ; sub- 

 marginal spots, apical interspaces, and basal streaks, prominently black and red 

 bordered ; marginal lines distinct. 



Expanse, $ 2|-, 9 2-|- inches. 



Larva pale greenish-yellow or reddish, head spined, the segments armed with 

 short spiny tubercles, and a longer dorsal divergent pair on third and fourth segments. 

 Feeds on Cinchona, Musscenda, &c. Pupa reddish-purple-brown, wing cases dilated ; 

 head bifid, twisted and bent outward at the tips. 



" Found in the Western, Central, and Southern Provinces. Plains and hills up to 

 4000 feet, in forest land, from May to September and probably also at other times. 

 Has a floating, not very rapid flight; shy; settles with wings spread on leaves" 

 (Hutchison) . 



" Fairly numerous from February to April from 2000 feet and upwards. Found 

 also at other times " (Mackioood). 



" Taken at Kandy " (Wade). 



Genus VANESSA. 



Vanessa, Fabricius, lUiger's Mag. vi. p. 281 (1807). 



Wings short, broad ; forewing triangular ; costa arched towards the apex, exterior 

 margin oblique, scalloped, angulated outward below the apex and slightly above the 

 posterior angle ; costal vein extending to nearly two-thirds the wing ; first subcostal 

 branch emitted at one-fifth before end of the cell, second close to end, third at one- 

 third beyond, fourth and fifth at nearly two-thirds beyond ; upper discocellular short, 

 bent outward close to subcostal and deeply concave below, lower slender, obliquely 

 straight ; radials from angle and end of upper discocellular ; cell long, broad and 



