THE BUTTERFLIES OF CEYLON 23 
38. EUTHALIA GARUDA, M., B. and De. N.; Euthalia 
garuda diversa, E. 
Found in India, Burmah, Malaya, etc. Fruhstorfer 
names the race from S. India and Ceylon meridionalis . 
De Nicéville distinguishes between the males of garuda 
and vasanta as follows:—E. garuda has the white spots on 
the fore wing sharply defined, they ‘‘ consist of a curved 
series of five kidney-shaped spots on a uniform pale brown 
ground.’’ £. vasanta has the spots small, ‘‘ often obsoles- ~ 
cent or absent entirely,’’ they are four in number and 
arranged in a straight, but oblique, series 1rom the costa. 
Bingham says vasanta differs in having no spots on the 
fore wing, and there are four males in the Colombo Museum 
labelled gavuda because they show 4 discal white spots. 
My experience is that at least 20% of the males of vasanta 
in Ceylon shew these spots. The Hon. Mr. F. M. Mackwood, 
who has been collecting for over 50 years in the Island, has 
never seen a Ceylon specimen of female garuda. so I think 
there can be little doubt that gavuda has no claim to a place 
in Ceylon lists. 
38a. EUTHALIA VASANTA, M., De N. and E.; Euthaha 
garuda vasanta. 
- Peculiar to Ceylon. Fruhstorfer names the 99 with 
white band absent fulica. I have never seen one. 
The male varies as already stated under the heading of 
E. garuda. The female varies in the width of the white 
discal band, but it is always straight from the costa to 
interspace 2, and does not at all resemble that of the female 
garuda. 
Both sexes are equally common, and have the same habits, 
They are fond of settling on wet roads, and come readily to 
decaying fruit or sugar. They are rather shy and have a 
very strong flight, so are not easy to capture in perfect con- 
dition. 
I have notes of their capture at Colombo, Kandy, Kegalle, 
Galle, Trincomalie, Haldummulla, etc., but have not yet taken 
them in Jaffna, though the mango, which is a favourite food 
plant of the larve, is extensively cultivated there, 
