SPALGIS EPIUS (Plate 34, Fig. 1, la, $ ?, U, larva). 



Lucia Epius, Westwood, Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera, p. 502, pi. 76, fig. 5, ? (1852). 

 Spalgis Epius, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soe. London, 1879, p. 137. 



Male. Upperside violet-brown : forewing with a white quadrate spot from end 

 of the cell. Underside greyish-white, with indistinct pale brown oval basal marks 

 and several outer transverse interrupted zigzag lines, Female paler : forewing with 

 a broader diffused white discal space, and a blackish discocellular lunular mark. 

 Cilia whitish. Underside whiter; markings bolder. Antennge reddish, with black 

 and white basal articulations ; legs banded with brown. 



Expanse, $ W, i 1 inch. 



Larva pale green, the segments armed with elongated divergent pointed processes. 

 Pupa small, dilated in the middle. Feeds on EuphorUacece: 



" Central Provinces ; about flower-gardens, at 3000 feet elevation, during 

 February. Y erj locaV' {Hutchison) . 



" Kandy. Kottawa forest, Galle. Very common and easy to capture. Likes 

 shady places and high jungle" {Wade). 



Genus MEGISBA. 



Allied to Pithecops. Differs in the triangular form of the forewing ; first 

 subcostal branch emitted at nearly one-half length before end of the cell, second at 

 one-third before its end, third at one-eighth, the fourth at one-half beyond and 

 terminating before the apex; discocellulars very slender; middle median branch 

 emitted immediately before end of the cell, lower at one-half before its end ; sub- 

 median straight : hind wing convex at the apex, oblique towards anal angle, abdominal 

 margin long ; first subcostal branch emitted at one-fifth before end of the cell ; two 

 upper median branches from a short distance beyond end of the cell. Abdomen long, 

 reaching to anal angle ; antennge with a shorter spatular club. 



MEGISBA THWAITESI (Plate 34, Fig. 3, 3a, b, $ 2 and larva). 

 Male and female. Upperside dark violet-brown : forewing with an oblique lower 

 discal white-speckled patch. Cilia whitish. Underside bluish-white : forewing with 

 four blackish spots on middle of costal border, one within the cell, a brown discocellular 

 streak, an outer discal transverse curved series of five brown streaks, a marginal row 

 of blackish spots bordered inwardly by a narrow sinuous line and outwardly by a 

 linear marginal line : hindwing with three black subbasal transverse spots, one on 

 middle of abdominal margin and a larger one on costal border near the apex; a 

 narrow brown discocellular streak and a discal series of irregular-shaped spots ; a 

 marginal row of blackish spots bordered within by a sinuous line and outwardly by a 



