72 THE BUTTERFLIES OF CEYLON 
124. SPINDASIS SCHISTACEA. 
Also found in India and Burma. 
De Nicéville thinks it is only a variety of fusca. He says 
fusca has the red bands on the under side broad, and schistacea 
has them narrow in both sexes. The female of schistaceg 
has the upper side of both wings “more or less sprinkled 
with plumbeous scales,’ which is never the case in the female 
of fusca. 
I believe it to be quite distinct. The females differ usually 
as De Nicéville states, though occasionally a slight plum- 
beous scaling is found on fusca 9. The males are not always 
so easy to separate, but the blue gloss on the hind wing of 
fusca is small in extent, if present at all, and is of quite a 
different shade to that of schistacea. The width of the bands 
on the under side is very variable, and useless as a test. It 
is common on a patana ridge near Haldummulla resthouse, 
and at Haputale, and I have taken a few specimens at Kan- 
kesanturai, Elephant Pass, Trincomalie, Hambantota and 
Kurunegalle. 
125. SPINDASIS ICTIS CEYLONICA. 
Fruhstorfer gives ictis as confined to Ceylon, and lunu- 
lifera to Sikkim. 
This is the most difficult group to names, and I can 
at present only treat it as a number of local forms, The 
principal ones are :— 
No 1.—Very plentiful in the Northern Province. 
g.—Upper surface dark brown, with a variable, but usually 
well-defined, orange patch on fore wing ; a patch of light blue 
iridescence along the dorsum: lower wing brilliant irides- 
cent blue; anal patch usually pale red, with rather large 
diffuse black spots. 
¢.—Ground colour slightly paler, orange patch much larger, 
occasionally occupying one-third of fore wing ; dorsal portion 
of fore wing, and the whole of the hind wing, except anal 
patch, covered with pale gray-blue scales. In both sexes the 
marking of the under side appears on the orange patch with 
exceptional clearness. 
