138 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



wing of a deep vinous-brown ; base and apical streaks on forewing and interspaces 

 between tbe veins and marginal spots on bind wing brigbt ocbreous. 

 Expanse 2^ incbes. 



" Colombo. In gardens and open cultivated ground. October to end of year. 

 Flight slow, settling on the ground. Very uncertain in its appearance ; only observed 

 during two out of five years' collecting" {Hutchison). 



"Colombo. Hambantotte. GaMe" {Wade). 



" Low country, appearing apparently in certain years only, as for two or three 

 years together scarcely one is to be seen and then in the next they appear in 

 numbers " (Maclcwood) . 



Genus NEPHERONIA. 



Nepheronia, But]er, Cist. Ent. i. pp. 38, 53 (1870). 

 Faimo, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. p. 139 (1829). 

 Eronia (part), Boisduval ; Doubleday. 



Forewing triangular, elongated ; costa arched, apex convex ; costal vein extend- 

 ing two-thirds the margin ; first and second subcostal branches emitted close together, 

 first at one-fourth before end of the cell ; third trifid, sixth (or upper radial) from 

 end of the cell ; discocellulars oblique, upper deeply concave, lower nearly straight j 

 radial from their angle ; cell extending to nearly two-thirds the wing ; middle median" 

 at one-fourth, lower at one-half before end of the cell ; submedian waved : hindwing 

 obconical ; costal margin nearly straight ; precostal vein short ; costal curving 

 towards the end ; first subcostal at one-fourth before end of the cell ; discocellulars 

 very oblique, radial from their middle ; middle median at one-fourth, lower at one- 

 half before end of the cell ; submedian straight, internal recurved. Body long, 

 thorax hairy ; palpi short, thickly clothed with scales, hairy beneath ; legs long, 

 slender ; antennae long, terminating in a lengthened club. {N. Valeria.) 



NEPHERONIA CEYLONICA. 



Eronia Ceylonica, Felder, Novaia Voy. Lep. ii. p. 191 (1865). 



Male. Upperside. Forewing fuliginous-black, with light-blue space within the cell 

 and interspaces between the veins from the subcostal to middle of the disc : hindwing 

 with light-blue interspaces between all the veins to middle of the disc. Underside 

 nacreous-blue : forewing with the costa and apical margin dusky-cyaneous, the veins 

 from base to near their end black, the median branches crossed by a confluent black 

 streak : hindwing with a marginal row of very indistinct white spots with dusky 

 borders. Female with narrow blue streaks between all the veins, and a marginal row 

 of spots. Underside with the discoidal and median vein more broadly black. 



Expanse, $ 2f , s \\ inches. 



