210 L. de Niceville — Subgenus Pademma of the genus Euplcea. [No. 3, 



1. Eupl(ea (Pademma) sinhala, Moore. 



Euplcea sinhala, Moore, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fourth series, vol. xx, p. 45 

 (1877) ; id. (part), Marshall and de Niceville, Bntt. of India, vol. i, p. 66, n. 47 (1882) ; 

 Isamia sinhala, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 10, pi. v, fig. 1, male (1880); Fademma 

 sinhala, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 309, n. 18 ; idem, id., Lep. Ind., vol. i, 

 p. 126, pi. xlvii, figs. 3, male; 3a, female (1890). 



Habitat : Ceylon. 



Expanse : d 1 , 9 , 3-25 to 3'85 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both wings dark olive-brown. 

 Forewing •with the outer marginal area broadly much paler than the 

 rest of the wing, bearing in the middle of the pale area a series of from 

 six to eight small ochreous-white spots, the one in the first median 

 interspace the largest, often two in the submedian interspace ; a 

 marginal series of dots variable in number, but usually four, com- 

 mencing at the anal angle and never reaching the apex of the wing ; 

 the usual oval sexual brand in the submedian interspace. Hindiving 

 with the outer margin paler than the rest of the wing, but less markedly 

 so than in the forewing ; the usual flour-like sexual patch about the 

 anterior area of the discoidal cell ; a submarginal seines of twelve 

 och icons-white spots, the four anterior ones round, decreasing in size 

 towards the costa, placed one in each interspace, the posterior ones 

 elongated into streaks, placed two in each interspace; an almost com- 

 plete marginal series of dots much larger than those in the forewing, 

 not quite reaching the apex of the wing, placed in pairs in the inter- 

 spaces. Underside, both wings paler olive-brown than on the upper- 

 side Forewing somewhat darker in the middle of the disc ; a costal 

 spot placed between the bases of the first and second subcostal 

 nervules ; discal spots placed beyond the cell varying from two to 

 four, the lowermost spot in the submedian interspace the largest, all 

 these spots bluish-white ; submarginal and marginal series of spots as on 

 the upperside, but the latter more numerous ; inner margin of the wing 

 up to the first median nervule cinereous ; the sexual brand black and 

 prominent. Hindiving with none, one, or two discal spots placed just 

 beyond the cell ; submarginal and marginal spots as on the upperside. 

 FEMALE, rather paler than the male throughout, lacking all the second- 

 ers- sexual characters, and having the inner margin of the forewing 

 straight, not strongly outwardly bowed. Underside, foreiving has 

 the inner margin cinereous as far as the submedian fold. 



E. sinhala occurs only in Ceylon, and is, for an Eujjlcea of this 

 group, owing to its insular position, fairly constant. 



2. Euplcea (Pademma) klugii. Moore. 



Euplcea klugii, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mns. E.I. C, vol. i, p. 130, 



