68 THE LEPIDOPTEBA OF CEYLON. 



sliort and stout, fore tarsi of female furnished with claws and their appendages as in 

 tarsi of hind legs ; antenna with a gradually-thickened obtuse club. 



LIBYTHEA RAMA (Plate 33, Fig. 2, 2a). 

 Lihyihea Rama, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1872, p. 556. 



Upperside dark brown : foreAving with an ochreous narrow streak extending 

 along lower part of the cell and joined to a broader discal streak beyond, an upper and 

 lower subapical geminated spot : hindwing with a transverse, medial discal, narrow 

 straight ochreous streak. Underside pale brown, apical border of forewing and the 

 hindwing transversely fasciated with purple-grey, and speckled with dark brown ; 

 discoidal streak on forewing broader and dull pale yellow, the apical spots whitish. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



" Central Provinces ; hills 4000 to 6000 feet, in forest lands during S.W. 

 Monsoon, May to October. Darts about and settles on the ground. Shy and not 

 very easy to capture" {Kutcliison). 



" Plentiful about 3500 feet and upwards, on the roads and banks of same in 

 vicinity of jungle " (Mac/ayoocZ). 



" Kandy and Dickoya" {Wade). ■ 



Subfamily ERYCININ./E. 



Pupa recumbent on a leaf or other object, and secured by the tail and a girdle 

 across the middle. 



Genus ABISARA. 



Ahisara, Felder, Wien. Entom. Monats. iv. p. 396 (1860). 



Forewing triangular ; costal margin arched, apex slightly pointed, exterior margin 

 oblique, straight ; costal vein extending nearly two-thirds the margin ; first and 

 second subcostal branches very short, emitted near together close before end of the 

 cell, third at one-fourth beyond, fourth and fifth at one-half beyond, third and fourth 

 terminating on costa before reaching the apex ; cell very broad ; discocellulars of 

 equal length, concave, upper radial from end of the cell, lower from middle of 

 discocellulars ; middle median branch emitted at a short distance before end of the 

 cell, lower at half length of the cell ; submedian slightly recurved : hindwing short, 

 broad, costal margin very convex at the base and thence oblique ; exterior margin 

 bluntly angled at end of the median vein, abdominal margin long ; costal vein very 

 short, with a basal outwardly curved spur ; subcostal branches emitted beyond end of 



