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robust; palpi porrect, second joint projecting one-tliird beyond the head, attenuated 

 at apex, clothed with adpressed compact scales ; third joint very slender, about 

 one-fourth length of second in male, longer in female ; legs squamose, femora 

 slightly pilose beneath ; antennse long, extending beyond half the wing, club evenly 

 formed. 



Type,, D. Epijai-bas. 



DEUDORIX EPIJARBAS (Plate 39, Fig. 4, 4a, ^ $). 



Bipsas Epijarhas. Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 32 (1857). 

 JDeudorix Epijarhas, Hewitson, lUust. Diurnal Lep. pi. 7, fig. 16, 17, 18. 



Male. Upperside red : forewing with a broad black costal and outer marginal 

 band, the posterior margin also black ; hindwing with the costal area broadly black ; 

 abdominal margin greyish-brown ; an anal spot, fringe, and tail black ; veins of both 

 wings also black. Female olive-brown. Underside pale vinous-brown in male, 

 ochreous-grey in female : forewing with two slender white discocellular streaks and 

 two transverse discal lines, and a less distinct marginal line : hindwing with two 

 discocellular streaks, two curved discal broken lines, and a less distinct marginal 

 line ; anal lobe black, a red-bordered black spot between middle and lower median 

 veins, a metalhc-green and black-speckled streak above anal lobe. Front and sides of 

 head, palpi beneath, and legs white, palpi above and bands on legs black. 



Expanse 1-| inch. 



" Western and Central Provinces. Near forests. Plains and up to 3000 feet. 

 Chiefly during S.W. monsoon, but found also at other times. Flight rapid, darting 

 from bush to bush. Taken also at Newera Eliya, 6000 feet" {Hutchison). 



DEUDORIX LANKAN A (Plate 39, Fig. 5 5). 

 Deudor-ix Lankana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 141, J. 



Female. Upperside pale violet-brown, marginal line black ; ciha pale ferruginous ; 

 anal lobe ferruginous ; tail black ; cilia at anal angle and beyond tail white. Under- 

 side pale ferruginous, the margin darker ; crossed by a narrow ferruginous-brown 

 discal band ; a black spot at anal lobe and a speckled spot beyond, both of which 

 and the end of the band are bordered with white speckles. Legs blackish, banded 

 with white. 



Expanse If inch. 



Captured on the edge of high jungle in the Kottawah forest, near Galle, by 

 Captain Wade. 



I place this insect in Deudorix provisionally, not knowing the male. 



