NYMPHALIN^. 55 



Larva pale green, with au oblique lateral pink fascia from top of anal segment ; 

 head armed with two short conical points, third and fifth and anal segment with a 

 dorsal pair of short fleshy setose spines and two longer divergent spines on fourth 

 segment. Feeds on. Leguminosce. Pupa short, pale reddish-brown, wing cases 

 dilated laterally, head bluntly cleft. 



" Widely distributed, occurring in the Hills and Plains, both in forest and 

 cultivated land all the year. Flight slow, floating, alights on bushes with wings 

 generally if not always open" (Hutchison).- 



" Found everywhere, and below 3000 feet in great abundance nearly all the 

 year" (Machvood). 



NEPTIS DISRTJPTA (Plate 28, Fig. 4, 4a). 

 Neptis disrupta, Moore, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 339. 



Upperside black : forewing with white discoidal streak and triangular terminal 

 spot ; three spots from middle of posterior margin and a fourth smaller spot beyond 

 the discoidal triangular spot; between this series and a submarginal series of some- 

 what conical spots is a discal series of very indistinct pale dusky oblique spots ; an 

 indistinct marginal narrow pale dusky line : hindwing with a white transverse discal 

 macular band, a quadrate spot on abdominal margin near the base, and two parallel- 

 spots and streaks on anterior margin ; an outer marginal linear row of white streaks. 

 Underside dull ferruginous, with black bordered white markings as above, and black 

 confluent spots across the disc of both wings. 



Expanse, ? 2~ inches. 



A very rare species. A single specimen is in the collection of Mr. F. M. 

 Mackwood at Colombo, which was taken at Ambegamoa, in the Central Province. 



NEPTIS JUMBA (Plate 28, Fig. 2 a, b). 



Neptis Jumba, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. 1. C. i. p. 167, pi. 4a, f. 5 (1857); Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 

 1858, p. 7. 



Male. Upperside fuliginous black : forewing with a white longitudinal streak 

 within the cell, which is shghtly notched near its end, a broad triangular spot beyond 

 it, a discal transverse curved series of six small oval spots which are disposed in an 

 upper, medial, and lower series of two each; three submarginal pale lunular lines, 

 the middle line whitish : hindwing with a white medial transverse macular band, and 

 two submarginal pale lunular lines. Female paler ; markings more prominent and 

 bluish-white, the submarginal pale lines on forewing more distinct, and the inner 



