ERGOLIS. — PSEUDEEGOLIS. 463 



Hah. The northern half of continental India, Simla to Sikhim 

 in the Himalayas, and recorded from Rajputana and Bengal; 

 Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; Malayan Subregion. The Tenas- 

 serim specimens are darker and often without the white subcostal 

 spot in the fore wing, approximating thus to the Southern Indian 

 and Ceylon race. 



Larva. ' ; Cylindrical, slender ; segments armed with two dorsal 

 and two lateral rows of short branched-spines ; head with a pair 

 of long, straight, branched-spines. Colour green with dorsal longi- 

 tudinal dark brown lines." {Moore.) 



Pupa. " Similar to that of E. ariadne." {Moore.) 



Race taprobana, Westwood. — Differs as follows : — 



Wet-season-form. — cJ . Upper side: ground-colour dark ferruginous; 

 white subcostal spot on fore wing rarely present ; the transverse 

 lines black, more clearly denned ; the anterior half of the hind 

 wing as in merione smooth, uniform, unmarked. Underside : 

 ground-colour darker than in merione, the markings on the anterior 

 half of the fore and in the centre of the hind wing obscured by a 

 superposed very dark chestnut shading ; on the fore wing . this 

 dark shading does not extend to the base, apex or termen, on the 

 hind wing ib does not extend quite to the costa. Sex-mark as in 

 merione. — $ . Similar to the $ of merione, but differs as follows : — 

 Upperside : ground-colour dark ferruginous as in the S of its own 

 race ; the transverse lines and markings very distinctly defined ; 

 the two postdiscal lines formed into more or less broad cordate 

 marks in the interspaces. Underside : ground-colour darker than 

 that in merione 2 > sometimes a sort of purplish brown ; the 

 chestnut transverse bands well-defined and continuous on fore 

 and hind wings. 



Dry-season form. — $ $ • Similar to the wet-season form but the 

 ground-colour paler. 



Exp. 6 $49-56 mm. (1-93-2-2"). 



Hal. Southern India; Ceylon. 



Genus PSEUDERGOLIS. 



Pseudergolis, Felder, Novara Reise, Lep. iii, 1867, p. 404 ; de N. 

 Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 119 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. v, 1901-1903, p. 39. 



Type, P. avesta, JMder, from the Celebes. 



Range. Indo-Malayan Eegion ; China. 



<S 2 • Fore wing : costa widely arched ; apex obtuse ; termen 

 sinuous, angulate at interspace 5. concave in the middle, more or 

 less scalloped ; tornus obtuse ; dorsum straight ; cell slenderly 

 closed, short, not half length of wing; veins 6 and 7 from a 

 point, hence upper discocellular obsolete, middle discocellular 

 deeply concave, lower slightly concave ; veins 3 and 4 stalked, 

 veins 10 and 11 free. Hind wing : broad, short, irregularly 

 ovate ; costa regularly arched, apex more or less rounded ; termen 

 arched, scalloped ; tornus slightly produced, angulate ; dorsum 



