82 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



broken up than in the aUied N. Indian form {T. Nara), and the female is more 

 prominently white marked on the upperside. 



" Found in strips of high jungle fringing the Yalle River. Plentiful in this one 

 spot in July" {Wade). 



TAUUCUS PLINIUS (Plate 36, Fig. 4). 



Hesperia Plinius, Fabi'icius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 284 (1793); Donovan, Ins. Ind. pi. 41, f. 1. 

 Lycwna Plinius, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. East India Company, p. 72. 



Male. Upperside purple violet-blue. Female fuliginous-brown, basal areas 

 glossed with cobalt blue, discal area of forewing with a series of whitish quadrate 

 spots : hindwing with indistinct whitish discal spots and a more prominent submarginal 

 and marginal lunular band, the latter enclosing indistinct blackish spots. Underside 

 brown : forewing with a white basal angled mark, a subbasal curved line, four waved 

 oblique discal outwardly-confluent lines, and two marginal lunular lines : hindwing 

 with a white basal costal streak, a subbasal straight streak, two medial waved lines, 

 and two discal contorted lines, a submarginal row of broad lunules, and a marginal 

 row of conical marks, the two from anal angle black with metallic-green speckles and 

 bordered with ochreous. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



" Captured near Kandy, about 2000 to 2500 feet. Flies about hedges by roadside 

 in January. Scarce" (Rvtchison). 



" Kandy, and Hambantotte in Jutie " ( Wade). 



Genus CASTALIUS, 



Castalius, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 70 (1816). 



Forewing triangular; costa arched at the base, apex pointed, exterior margin 

 oblique and slightly convex ; costal vein extending to a little over half length of the 

 margin; first subcostal branch very short, anastomosed to costal for a short distance 

 near its end, emitted at nearly one-half before end of the cell ; second at a very short 

 distance before base of first; third at one-eighth before end of the eel], fourth at 

 one-half beyond the cell, fifth from end of the cell; discocellulars slightly oblique 

 and recurved, radial from their middle ; cell extending to more than half length of 

 the wing ; middle median branch emitted at one-eighth before end of the cell, lower 

 at one-half before its end ; submedian nearly straight : hindwing bluntly oval, 

 exterior margin convex anteriorly, slightly angled and with a deHcate tail at end of 

 lower median vein ; costal vein arched at base and extending to apex ; first subcostal 

 emitted at one-fourth before end of the cell; discocellulars recurved, radial from 



