boscii

Updated: May 2, 2025

Nat. vol. xlvii. p. 271, quotes M. Bosc as authority for the kind, which that naturalist describes being "rouges et tachetées;" which is scarcely applicable to the Singhalese species. In all likelihood, therefore, there may be a H. Boscii, distinct from the H. Ceylanica.

Sir James Emerson Tennent - Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon