140 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



lower at nearly half before end of the cell ; submedian straight, internal curved. 

 Body naoderately stout, thorax and head hairy ; palpi porrect, extending beyond the 

 head, very laxly pilose beneath, third joint long, slender; legs long, slender; antennge 

 with a grooved club. 

 Type, D. Egialea. 



DELIAS ETICHARIS (Plate 54, Fig. 1, \ a,b, S ?, larva). 



Papilio Eucharis, Drury, Illust. Exot. Ent. ii. pi. 10, f. 5, 6 (1773); Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 201, 



f. B, C ; pi. 202, f. C. 

 Thyca Eucharis, Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1867 p. 351. 

 Pieris Epiclmris, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 153; Boisd. Spec. Gea. Lep. i. p. 456. 



Male. Upperside white : forewing with all the veins black lined ; crossed by a 

 submarginal narrow band, the black expanded end of the veins thus forming a 

 marginal series of white pointed conical streaks : hindwing with a slender black sub- 

 marginal band joined by black veins to a marginal row of triangular spots, the inter- 

 spaces formed of pinkish cordate spots. Female with all the veins in both wings 

 broader black, the marginal spots more acutely pointed. Underside of both sexes 

 with all the veins black lined as in female, the marginal spots on hindwing scarlet 

 and white-bordered ; apex of forewing and basal area of hindwing yellow. 



Expanse, c? 2|, ? 3^ inches. 



Larva subcylindrical ; head small ; clothed with fine rather long hair ; ochreous- 

 yellow, white-spotted ; head and legs black. Pupa thick anteriorly, with a dorsal 

 row of black spines ; yellow, black spotted. 



" Feeds on Loranthus " {Thivaites). 



" Common throughout the low country, and up to 4000 feet ; at times a few 

 occur higher up. The larvEe feed on the parasitic Loranthus, sometimes in thousands, 

 but fortunately ichneumons destroy the greater number " (Machivood). 



" Kandy and Galle " (Wade). 



Genus PRIONERIS. 

 Prioneris, Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1867, p. 383; Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 39. 



Wings large : forewing triangular ; exterior margin very oblique, uneven ; costal 

 margin minutely serrated; costal vein extending nearly two-thirds its length; first 

 subcostal branch at nearly one-half and second at one-fourth before end of the cell, 

 third trifid, fourth at one-third before the apex, fifth at one-fourth beyond the cell ; 

 upper discocellular very oblique, lower less ; radial from their angle ; cell nearly 

 two-thirds length of the wing ; middle median at one-fourth, lower at one-half before 

 end of the cell ; submedian slightly concave near the base : hindwing broadly oval ; 

 exterior margin uneven ; precostal curved ; costal arched ; first subcostal at one-half 



