22 THE BUTTERFLIES OF CEYLON 
area in Ceylon, viz., a stretch of quartzy patana, reaching 
from Ranungahawa, four miles below Haldummulla, to 
Kumbukkan (25 to 30 miles). This patana crosses the 
Wellawaya-Haldummulla road near the 127th milepost: 
the butterfly can nearly always be taken there. I have 
found it abundant there in March, May and August, and at 
other parts of the patana in July and November. 
36. EUTHALIA (DOPHLA) EVELINA. 
Peculiar to Ceylon, but a race of it, E. evelina laudabilis, 
is found in S. India. It differs in having a greyish white 
band along the costa of the fore wing. 
Occasionally very common in parts of the low-country of 
Uva, but very rarely comes above 2,000 feet. It is fond of 
settling in wet sand on the river-beds, or where sap is exuding 
from a tree, and both sexes come very readily to toddy. 
The largest numbers I have ever seen were at Hambegama 
Tank in June. It is not rare at Wellawaya, and I have taken 
it once at Haldummulla, 2,500 feet. Very plentiful at the 
hot springs near Trincomalie in November, but all were 
badly worn. 
37. EUTHALIA LUBENTINA. Also found in India, Burma, 
Malaya, China, etc. . 
The Ceylon race is now said by Fruhstorfer to be distinct, 
and has been named psitiacus. , 
The larva feeds on Loranthus, and the insect is nearly as 
widely distributed as the food plant, but it seems to be 
common nowhere. I have taken it on fallen nutmegs near 
Galle, in sandy river-beds in the low-country of Uva, on a 
Duranta hedge in my garden (3,000 feet), and in jungle above 
Haputale (over 5,000 feet). I have specimens from Kandy 
and Ratnapura, and know of its capture at Badulla. 
The sexes seem to occur in about equal numbers, and both 
come to sugar, or settle on wet sand. In this latter character- 
istic the Euthalias differ from the majority of Ceylon butter- 
flies, as, in other genera, those settling on wet roads or in 
sandy river-beds are almost invariably males. Appias, 
Catopsilia, and Libythea are the only others I can remember 
that agree with the Euthalias in this respect, 
