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segment, the two upper much the longest, all with yellow bases ; 

 spiracle marked as a black dot, pale whitish on either side ; legs 

 dark brown. Head dark brown with two upright horns, half an 

 inch in length, curving backwards." (Manders.) 



Pupa. "Colour varying shades of brown. A prominent ridge 

 over thorax ; two alse, anteriorly narrowly pointed, on either side of 

 outer margin of wing-cover, two smaller alae on either side of the 

 12th segment ; between the alae and on either side of the dorsum 

 two pairs of diamond-shaped spots pale green, one pair behind 

 posterior alas ; two silver spots on either side of the thoracic 

 ridge anteriorly, and three splashes of silver posteriorly ; a dark 

 line extends from the outer margin of wing-cover to tail. Fifteen 

 days in pupa." {Manders.) 



414. Cynthia asela, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1872, p. 558 ; id. Lep. Ceyl. i, 

 1881, p. 53, pi. 26, figs. 1, la-lc, J $, larva & pupa; de N. 

 Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 43 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 192, 

 pi. 358, figs. 1, 1 a, 1 b, larva & pupa, <$ § . 



Race saloma. 



Cynthia saloma, Swinhoe, in de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 43 ; 



° Davidson 4* Aitken, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. v, 1890, p. 270, pi. B, 



figs. 2, 2 a, larva & pupa ; Moore, Lep. hid. iv, 1899-1900, p. 191, 



pi. 356, tigs. 1, larva & pupa, la, lb, <S $ , & pi. 357, tigs. 1, 



la-lc, <$ 2 • 



S • Absolutely indistinguishable from the wet- season form of 

 E. erota ; varying individually, like that form, in the slightly 

 lighter or darker ground-colour on both upper and under sides, 

 and in the distinctness of the markings. — $. Upperside blue; 

 basal area of both fore and hind wings slightly suffused with 

 olivaceous green, the markings very similar to those in the wet- 

 season form of O. erota 2 , but the discal white band very much 

 narrower, so that the transverse medial zigzag dark brownish-black 

 line traverses only the outer margin of the white band, and the 

 transverse series of diffuse dark spots on the fore wing is placed 

 posteriorly on a blue, anteriorly on a dark brown ground ; only in 

 interspaces 3, 4 and 5 of the fore wing is there a trace of white 

 beyond the diffuse spots. On the hind wing the white discal band 

 terminates at vein 6, the posterior three-fourths of the wing except 

 the broad abdominal fold is blue ; the postdiscal ocelli in inter- 

 spaces 2 and 5 larger than in C. erota ; in addition a well-formed 

 but much smaller similar ocellus in interspaces 1 and 6 respectively ; 

 terminal margin more narrowly oenraceous brown than in C. erota, 

 the inner and outer subterminal lines lunular and broader. Under- 

 side similar to that in C. erota but paler ; the postdiscal ocelli on 

 the hind wing much larger, of a pale green, with a white central 

 spot and an outer ring of black. Antennas dark ochraceous 

 brown ; head, thorax and abdomen pale blue ; beneath, palpi, 

 thorax and abdomen very pale ochraceous. 



Exp. S 2 102-114 mm. (4-04-4-5") 



Hab. Ceylon. 



