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LEPIDOPTERA IN DIG A. 
In the British Museum Collection are specimens from Durbunga and Maunbhoom, 
Bengal, and in Mr. J. H. Leech’s Collection from Sultanpur, Kulu, taken by Capt. G. 
Young, from Narkunda, and Kujiar, 6,000 feet, NAY. Himalaya, taken in April by 
Capt. McArthur. 
Of our illustrations on Plate 527, fig. 1, larvct and pujpa, are from Mr. A. Grote’s 
original drawing made in Calcutta; fig. 1, a, b, c, cf, Id, 9, of dry-season form, and 
fig. le, d, f, g, h, ¥, of ivet-season form. 
ANAPHiEIS TAPROBANA (Plate 527, fig. 2, 2a, ^,2b, c, $ ). 
Pieris Taprobana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1872, p. 565. 
Belenois Taprobana, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 137, pi. 53, fig. 3, 3a, b, ^ (1881). 
Belenois Mesentina, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1899, p. 216. 
Belenois Mesentina subsp. feroiclior, Fmlistorfer, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1897, p. 326. 
Imago. —Male. LTpperside greyish-white. Forewing with a broader black outer 
marginal band than in Continental Indian examples of A. Mesentina ; this band 
extends to the posterior angle, the three, or four, subapical enclosed white spots are 
very small and slender. Hindwing with a broad black marginal band traversed by 
very small slender white spots ; the black costal spot and lunule beneath being 
prominent. Underside. For Giving with the base ochreous tinted, the broad 
marginal band, as above, the subapical spots small and ochreous tinted. Hindwing 
with the vein-borders and outer band dark vinous-brown, their interspaces and the 
small marginal spots being bright ochreous. 
Female. Upperside of both wings basally suffused with pale ochreous, the 
marginal black bands somewhat broader, and without any traversing white spots. 
Underside similar to the male. 
Expanse, 2 to 2J inches. 
Habitat. —Ceylon. 
Distribution. —Mr. F. M. Mackwood records it as inhabiting the low country, 
appearing, apparently, in certain years only, as, for two or three years together, 
scarcely one is to be seen, and then in the next year they appear in great numbers. 
Capt. Hutchison obtained it in gardens and open cultivated ground about Colombo, 
from October to end of the year. Its flight is slow, settling on the ground. It is 
very uncertain in its appearance ; only observed during two out of five years’ 
coliection. Capt. Wade found it in Colombo, Hambantotte, and Galle (Lep. 
Ceylon, i. 137). Dr. N. Manders states that “ it is uncertain in its appearance, but 
is abundant in the low country when it does occur, and then joins in the migratory 
flights, in June and July, and again in November and December ” (Journ. As. Soc. 
Bengal, 1899, 216). 
