64 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



■what fulvous at the base, glossed with purple-grey; a transverse medial broad 

 straight purple-white band ; indistinct lunules on outer margin of wings with 

 purple-grey borders ; discal black spots on hindwing prominent. 

 Expanse 2| inches. 



" Western, Central, and Southern Provinces ; plains and up to 6000 feet, in 

 forests; flight moderately rapid, settles on the ground and on bushes. Easily 

 captured" {Hutchison). 



CIRROCHROA COGNATA (Plate 32, Fig. 3, a, b). 



Upperside differs from C. Thais in the forewing being shorter, the apex broader 

 and not falcated ; medial sinuous line indistinct, the marginal black band narrower 

 and traversed by a row of dentate spots : hindwing with a small wliite costal spot ; 

 the discal transverse markings similar but the outer marginal line blacker. Under- 

 side dark ferruginous, the medial transverse band narrower, less defined, and in some 

 specimens nearly obsolete. 



Expanse 2 to 2^ inches. 



Larva pale purplish-brown, yellowish beneath; head yellow, spotted in front 

 with black; with two dorsal rows of long delicate branched spines and two lateral 

 rows of shorter spines, a similar spine projecting on each side of the head from 

 second segment. Pupa pale bluish-purple, spotted with black, with lengthened 

 dorsal tubercles and two longer tubercular processes projecting from front of thorax; 

 head cleft. 



" A low country insect, found chiefly in the interior " (MacJcioood), 



Genus CUPHA. 



Cupha, Billberg, Euum. Ins. p. 79 (1820). 



Messaras, Doubleday, Geu. Diurnal Lep. p. 163 (1848). 



Wings short, broad : forewing with the costa much arched from the base, apex 

 somewhat pointed, exterior margin slightly oblique and waved in the middle ; costal 

 vein extending to half length of the margin; first and second branches of subcostal 

 very short, first emitted at end of the cell, second at one-sixth beyond end of the 

 cell, third at one- third from its end, fourth and fifth at two-thirds beyond; upper 

 discocellular bent close to the subcostal and deeply concave below, lower very slender 

 and shghtly concave, radials from angle and end of the upper; cell very short and 

 broad ; two upper median branches emitted at some distance beyond end of the cell, 

 lower at one-third before its end ; subraedian nearly straight : hindwing broadly oval. 



