12 THE BUTTERFLIES OF CEYLON 
“We can detect not the slightest difference between the 
Ceylon and continental examples,” and Bingham ignores 
todara. Apparently therefore todara is only a slight seasonal 
variety of drypetts. 
It may be found in all bamboo jungle where there is 
a fairly large rainfall, from sea level to 7,000 feet elevation 
at least. It is very common at Haputale and Kandy nearly 
all the year round, and I have also noted it at Galle, Ratna- 
pura, Ohiya, etc. It comes readily to toddy or sugar. 
21. LETHE DYRTA NILGIRIENSIS, E.; Lethe neelgheriensis, 
M., De N.; Lethe rohria nilgiriensis, B. 
Also found in S. India. 
Fruhstorfer separates the Ceylon race as yoga. 
De Nicéville considers it ‘‘ notably distinct’’ from L, 
dyrta. : 
The male differs from the male vohvia in having a fourth 
~ white spot on the upper side of the fore wing, in interspace 
2. I have two specimens, taken at Kandy and Haldummulla 
respectively, in which this spot is practically obsolete, and 
one specimen which shows a minute fifth spot in interspace 3 
_ The female differs in having the white pre-apical band on 
the fore wing broken up into three white spots. I have 
noticed no tendency in these spots to unite and form a band. 
The larva feeds on grasses ; the butterfly is very common at 
Haldummulla in grass-fields and chenas, and is very easy to 
catch, as it only flies a very short distance ata time. It comes 
occasionally to sugar. 
Taken from 1,000 to 5,000 feet elevation in Uva, but I 
have no notes of its capture out of the Province, except the 
one specimen from Kandy. I believe it to be common every- 
where in the hills. Flies all the year round. 
22. LETHE DARETIS.—Peculiar to Ceylon, and confined 
to high elevations. Personally I have never taken it below 
4,500 feet. 
It is nearly always to be found settled on the banks where 
the earth has been cut away to make a road, and never far 
from a bamboo clump, 
