126 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
on the outer area; fasciz indistinctly darker, submarginal ocelli small, fully 
developed. 
Female. Upperside much paler olivescent-brown. Forewing angled below the 
apex; with the subapical dusky-black confluent spots and costal patch obscurely 
defined, the spots white pupilled, the upper pale bar very obscurely brownish- 
ochreous. Hindwing with three small posterior submarginal white dots. Underside 
pale bright ferruginous, with darker strige; the fascie prominently defined and 
covered with more uniformly-disposed darker strigw, their outer edges waved, that 
of the discal fascize on forewing being distinctly sinuous, their interspaces and basal 
area of hindwing and outer border of discal fascia paler; the ordinary dusky black 
cell spot on hindwing ; the submarginal ocelli small, well developed. 
Expanse, d 2,5, ? 23% inches. 
Dry-sEason Broop (Plate 124, fig. 1, larva and pupa, 1 d, e, f, ¢ 9). 
Melanitis Tambra, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 15, pl. 9, figs. 2, a, b, ce, ¢ 2, larva and pupa (1880). 
Imaco.—Upperside dark olivescent-brown, apical area and outer borders slightly 
paler and obscurely speckled with ferruginous or cinereous-ferruginous scales. Fore- 
wing somewhat angled below the apex; with two very obscure small ,ordinary 
subapical blackish confluent-spots, with a single white pupil on its upper portion, 
but in some a lower white dot is slightly apparent. Hindwing without markings. 
Underside very dark ferruginous or purplish-ferruginous ; veins alternately blackish 
and pale ochreous speckled ; more or less numerously variegated with pale ochreous 
strigze, which are more dense and confluent between the fascize on the forewing, and 
the basal area and end of cell on the hindwing; the transverse ordinary fascize 
darker, those on forewing diffused, the outer one broadly greyish washed externally, 
most apparent on the hindwing, but paler and more ochreous on the forewing, 
especially on the dilated upper end before the apex. Both wings with the sub- 
marginal ocelloid spots small, ochreous-brown ringed, those on the hindwing being 
most distinct. 
Female. Upperside paler and of a ferruginous olivescent-brown tint, the costa 
and apex of forewing and outer borders suffusedly speckled with pale brighter 
ferruginous. Forewing more acutely angled below the apex than in the wet-season 
form ; with the subapical black confluent-spots large, each with a prominent white 
pupil, the upper one large, the lower small, the pale ferruginous ring obscure, the 
upper ferruginous bar more defined, the contiguous dusky costal patch blackish. 
Hindwing with three, or four, posterior submarginal minute white spots. Underside 
much paler and brighter ferruginous than in the male; the fascie more defined and 
more uniformly strigose, their interspaces and basal area of hindwing not pale mottled, 
