104 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Genus VIRACHOLA. 



Allied to Deudorix. Forewing comparatively more triangular, costa longer, 

 exterior margin more oblique, the posterior margin in the male convexly produced 

 towards the base and furnished beneath with a broad tuft of long hairs ; veins 

 similar, but the third and fifth subcostals emitted from end of the cell, the middle 

 and lower medians somewhat nearer end of the cell, the submedian straight : hind- 

 wing more convex along the apical border, which in the male has a large rounded 

 depressed roughened glandular space extending from beneath the costal vein across 

 the two subcostal branches to upper part of the cell, both of the subcostal branches 

 being grooved within the depressed area. 



Type, V. Perse. 



VIHACHOLA PERSE (Plate 40, Fig. \, \a, $ $). 

 Deudorix Perse, Hewitson, Illust. Diurnal Lep. p. 18, pi. 8, fig. 24, 25, 26 (1863). 



Upperside dark violet-brown ; lower basal and discal areas blue : forewing with 

 the discoidal cell and adjacent costal area blackish ; a bright ochreous patch beyond 

 the cell in male, whitish in female : hindwing with indistinct black spots from anal 

 angle, and a sHght blue marginal line; tail white tipped. Underside pale violet 

 greyish- brown : forewing with a whitish-bordered brown discocellular spot, a discal 

 catenulated band, and two less distinct marginal bands : hindwing with a similar 

 marked spot below the costal vein, one on middle of abdominal margin, a iigure of 

 eight discocellular spot, a discal catenulated band the end of which is bent upward 

 to the internal vein, and two less distinct marginal lunular lines ; lobe spot large and 

 anal streaks above it black, slightly green-speckled; markings of the female beneath 

 very prominent. 



Expanse, (J If, 9 2| inches. 



" Eastern Province. Plains ; forest land. Eare. August" (If ■ziic/iison). 



VIRACHOLA ISOCRATES. 



Hesperia Isocrates, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 266 (1793), $. 



Thecla Isocrates, Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 4, pi. 1 (1836). 



Deudorix Isocrates, Butler, Catal. Fabrician Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 181. 



Hesperia Pan, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 275, $ ; Donovan, Ins. India, pi. 38, f. 1. 



Male. Upperside deep violet-blue : forewing with a very indistinct ochreous 

 spot, visible only in certain lights, beyond the cell : hindwing with a slender 

 black marginal hne and small anal spots, the latter grey- speckled. Cilia greyish- 

 white. Female violet-brown : forewing with a more distinct ochreous spot beyond 

 the cell, which is diffused hindward in some specimens : hindwing with a prominent 



