THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



CYANIRIS SINGALENSIS (Plate 35, Fig. I, la). 



Lyccena Sirtgalensis, Felclei-, Verh. Zool. Bot. Gesch. 1868, p. 282; Moore, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1877, 

 p. 342. 



Male. TJpperside liglit blue. Cilia white, with blackish inner line. Underside 

 white : forewing with a dusky black streak at end of the cell, a submarginal series of 

 five slightly sinuous spots, a spot near the costa, and a marginal row of small spots 

 enclosed by an inner row of sinuous lunules : hindwing with three darker subbasal 

 spots, a spot on costa beyond middle, a spot within and a slender streak at end of 

 the cell, a discal curved series of five irregular-shaped spots, a curved streak above 

 anal angle, and marginal row of small angled spots enclosed by sinuous lunules. 

 Tibige and tarsi black streaked above. Female with the anterior and exterior borders 

 pale brown, the border on hindwing with a row of pale blue sinuous marks. 



Expanse, $ li^y, 2 l-rry inch. 



" Occurs at Kandy " {Wade). 



CYANimS LAHKA (Pl.^te 35, Fig. 2, 2a). 

 Polyommatus Lanka, Moore, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 342. 



Male. TJpperside very dark lavender-blue. CiHa white, with blackish inner 

 line. Underside white ; forewing with a grey -brown streak at end of the cell, a 

 submarginal transverse linear row of four linear spots, a spot near the costa, and a 

 marginal row of dentate spots : hindwing with two equidistant grey-brown spots on 

 anterior border, a spot within and a slender streak at end of the cell, a discal curved 

 series of five spots, two lunate marks on abdominal border, and an outer marginal 

 row of dentate spots. Tibi^ and tarsi with black bands; palpi black above. 



Expanse 1-to inch. 



" Central Province. Hills, 3000 to 6000 feet, in forest laud ; at all times. 

 Gregarious. Settles by hundreds in damp spots on the roads " {Hutchison). 

 "Kandy" {Wade). ' 



Genus CHILADES. 



Forewing elongated, tiiangular in the female ; costal vein extending to nearly 

 half length of the margin ; first subcostal branch free from costal but running along 

 its end, emitted beyond one-half before end of the cell, second at one-third, the third 



