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darkest on the outer lialf of the hindwing ; a broad dark-brown discal fascia 

 across both wings from costa of foiewing to tornus of the hindwing; beyond 

 this a lighter ochraceous band, followed on the hindwing by obscure ocelli in 

 interspaces 2 and 6 and a purplish-white diffused mark at the tornus. Female : 

 uppershle paler purplish brown, the terminal margins of the wings narrowly and 

 evenly yellow, a broad yellow-oblique preapical bar on the forewing, curving 

 downwards and ending in two or three detached triangular spots, two discal 

 spots below middle of bar and an outer series of three subtermitial large lunular 

 spots. Hindwiag on its anterior half outwardly with some diffuse yellow obscure 

 spots. Underside similar to that of the male but much lighter and brighter 

 ochraceous, the brown shading forming obscure transverse bands of which the 

 discal, broad postdiscal and subterminal crossing both wings are the most 

 prominent ; an additional ocellus in interspace 3, Antennae ochraceous ; head, 

 thorax and abdomen brown above, more or less ochraceous beneath. Exp. 95-99 

 mm. 



Larva. — Anal segment with two slender processes ; each segment with dorsal 

 and lateral tubercles studded with tufts of hair ; head black ; body brown with 

 paler longitudinal dorsal and lateral bands, a short black line on each side of the 

 dorsal line anteriorly on each segment ; legs with a spot of dark-red on 

 each. 



Pupa. — Boat-shaped, broad across the middle ; head piece prolonged and 

 acuminated into a bifid point ; colour pale purpurascent-brown. 



These dessription^ of larva and pupa are taken from Col. Bingham's book. 



Habits. — The habits are sure to be very similar to those of D. 

 lepida as regards all the stages. The insect is toimd in Sikhim, the 

 Lower and Eastern Provinces of Bengal, Assam, Burma, Tenas- 

 serim extendhig to the Malay Peninsula. 



32. Discophora lepida, Moore. — Male and female resemble D. celinde, but 

 in the male the ground-colour on the upperside is dark velvety-brown without 

 any blue reflecbions ; the forewing is crossed preapically by three obliquely- 

 placed, comparatively large f ale-blue spots with an ill-defined series of three 

 or four much smaller subterminal spots ; m the female the markings, though 

 similar to those in female D. celinde, are on the upperside of the forewing all 

 pale-blue, not yellow, and more numerous, larger and better defined on the 

 upperside of the hindwing. Cndernide : Male : similar to that in male D. 

 ce^wrZe, but a more or less prominent diffuse subteiminal band irrorated with 

 lilac scales crosses both wings. Female similar to the female of D. velitule, but 

 much paler Exp, 80- 104mm, 



Ljrva (PI. I, fig. 3).— In the first stage, immediately after emerging from 

 the egg the head is black and round, the body is cylindrical with tiny tail- 

 points ; colour of body brown-yellow with indistinct row of lateral black spots, 

 one to each segment. Body covered with long soft white curved hair like any 

 young eupterotid moth. 



