160 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



with a sliglitly suffused blackish subbasal patch, three conjugated very small indistinct 

 semi-transparent yellowish spots near the costa one-fourth from the apex. Cilia pale 

 greyish -brown. Underside pale purple-brown : forewing with a suffused blackish 

 costal patch before the apex ; posterior margin yellowish : hindwing with a subbasal 

 and submargiual suffused blackish band, the latter terminating in a black patch on 

 anal lobe; above the patch is a purple-white streak, and within the cell a small 

 bluish-white spot. Palpi and body beneath dull yellow ; legs pale brown. Female : 

 forewing with three small subapical spots, more distinct than in male, and three 

 large obliquely-quadrate spots, two being disposed on the disc, the third above them 

 within the cell. Underside suffused with bluish-purple ; the spots on forewing as 

 above, and a broad yellowish posterior border : hindwing as in male. 

 Expanse, $ 2, % 2\ inches. 



" Kottawa forest. Rare " (Tra(?e). 



Genus BIBASIS. 



Intermediate between Parata and Hasora. Forewing comparatively longer than 

 either of those genera ; apex more pointed, exterior margin more oblique, and 

 posterior margin shorter than in P. chromus ; first subcostal emitted at nearly one-half 

 before end of the cell, second at one-fourth before the end ; middle median at one- 

 fourth before end of the cell. No glandular streak in male : hindwing more oval, 

 less convex externally, and broader posteriorly. 



Type, B. Sena. 



BIBASIS SENA (Plate 65, Fig. 3, 3a). 

 Goniloha Sena, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 245 (1857); Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 778. 



Male and female. Upperside dark ochreous olive-brown. Cilia of hindwing 

 carmine-red. Underside vinous-brown : forewing with a large buff-white discal patch 

 from the middle of posterior margin suffusedly bordered above with purple : hindwing 

 with a broad transverse purple-white band terminating above the anal angle, the 

 inner border of the band sharply defined, the outer suffusing itself on the disc. Cilia 

 carmine-red. Palpi and thorax in front and legs beneath, and anal tuft ochreous- 

 yellow ; thorax beneath greyish-brown. 



Expanse If to 2 inches. 



"Kandy" {Wade). 



Genus PARATA. 

 Forewing narrower and less triangular than in Hasora, the exterior margin 

 shorter and posterior margin longer ; middle median emitted at nearly one-half and 

 lower at one-sixth before end of the cell. Male with an oblique glandular streak of 



