ot LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
Imaco.—Male. Upperside dark olivescent bronzy-brown. Cilia alternated with 
white. Forewing with an inner-discal short broad dusky-black glandular fascia 
extending within the cell, which is clothed with moderately-short broad slightly 
serrate-tipt scales, and long foliate acutely serrated-tipt scales, but no androconia ; 
crossed by a medial-discal series of creamy-white or ochreous-yellow spots, which 
are somewhat short and small, a spot being always present (and sometimes an 
incipient narrow streak) diverging to the costa beyond the cell. Hindwing with a 
similar-coloured medial-discal band. Underside paler olivescent bronzy-brown. 
Forewing with the costal and apical border indistinctly mottled with pale-edged 
blackish strigze, the discal band creamy-white or ochreous-yellow, broad, its lower 
portion continuous, the divergent costal portion entire and continued to the edge; 
subapical black spot with white pupil more or less prominent. Hindwing more or 
less densely mottled with black strige, the strige being more or less edged witia 
cinereous ; the base tinged with green ; the submarginal lunular line irregular and 
diffused. 
Female. Upperside with the transverse band as in male, but somewhat broader. 
Underside as in the male. Collar and side of palpi, ochreous-white ; legs brown. 
Expanse, 23 to 3 inches. 
CarTerPILLak.—“‘ Colour probably black, but it is so very thickly clothed with short 
bright-yellow hairs that it is almost impossible to see what its ground-colour really is ; 
head and legs black. Feeds on wild blue Iris.” 
Curysanis.—* Attached to the centre of a leaf by the tail, and a bright-yellow 
thread across the pupa, head upwards, like a Lyceenid. Colour shining olive-brown ; 
head, spines, and tail black ; a white patch crossed by an irregular black band upon 
each side of the thorax; a circular yellow spot on each shoulder ; on each side of the 
dorsal segments is an irregular white mark. The colours, very vivid in the living 
pupa, fade rapidly upon the death of the insect. The imago emerges in a fortnight.” 
(A. Graham Young.) 
Hasirat.—N.-W. Himalayas. 
Disrripu1ioN.—This species is the commonest of the group, and according to 
Col. A. M. Lang (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1868, 246) “abounds in the Simla and Kunawur 
districts of the N.-W. Himalayas during the rainy season, from July to October, 
chiefly on grassy slopes and in fields near woods, also in open woods; from the 
outer spurs overlooking the Indian plains for 200 miles into the interior of the moun- 
tain ranges towards the treeless regions of Spiti and Tibet.” Major H. B. Hellard 
obtained it in “Simla, Masuri, Pangi in Busahir, and in Kashmir, from June to 
October.” (MS. notes.) Major J. W. Yerbury (P. Z. S. 1886, 357) records it as 
“common at Murree, August and September; Atabul, 9000 feet; Thundiani, Sep- 
tember.” In Kulu, Mr. A. Graham Young writes, “ Not uncommon in its peculiar 
