132 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
ocelli as in the male, and sometimes the ocelli on both wings are of nearly uniform 
large size throughout, with large white centres. 
Expanse, ¢ 2,% to 2,8, 2 2,4 to 2,5 inches. 
Dry-srason Broop (Plate 127, figs. 1, e, f, g, hi, d 2). 
Melanitis Varaha, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 224 (1857), g. Marshall and de 
Nicéville, Butt. of India, etc, i. p. 256 (1883). 
Imaco.—Male. Upperside rich dark vinescent olive-brown; both wings with 
the exterior margin more or less densely speckled with purpurescent-cinereous 
scales. Forewing with the subapical dusky black spots and costal patch very 
indistinct, the confluent-spots small, each generally with a prominent white pupil, 
in some they are quite obsolete. Hindwing with two, or three, posterior submarginal 
white dots. Underside with the ground-colour either ashy-brown tinged with olive 
at the base, or pale purpurescent-cinereous-brown with the base olivescent, pur- 
purescent-cinereous with the base brown, or various shades of dark purplish-brown, 
ferruginous or reddish-brown with the base or transverse fasciz still more intense, 
or purplish-red with darker base, or, again, in some it is dusky-ochreous ; all are 
more or less numerously covered with obscure cinereous strige and the basal 
area with darker strige of the ground colour; the veins also being speckled; the 
ordinary fasciz either ill-defined and narrow, or the discal fascia only being indicated 
as the outer border of the dark basal area; in some the fascize are intervened by 
pale ochreous strigze, and in some few the fasciew are blotched with darker strige ; 
the submarginal series of ocelloid spots are small, more or less ill-defined and 
imperfectly developed, being either pale ochreous and brown speckled, or pale 
ochreous, or iron-grey speckled, or, sometimes they are large and prominent and 
yellowish or brown speckled and with a darker brown speckled ring, those at the 
apex of the forewing also being sometimes inwardly-bordered by whitish speckles, 
and there is, generally, present in most specimens a pale ochreous-white speckled 
patch at end of the cell on the hindwing. 
Female. Upperside pale olivescent-brown, the outer margins cinereous speckled. 
Forewing more acutely and broader angled below the apex than in male; with the 
apex ochreous tinged, the subapical dusky black spots more defined, white pupilled, 
and with a slightly-indicated obscure ochreous upper bar to the costa; a minute 
white speck also present close to the apex. Hindwing with the posterior sub- 
marginal white dots more or less distinct. Underside of various shades of dark 
ochreous or ferruginous, numerously covered with strigee, with the fascie indicated, 
and the submarginal ocelloid spots as in the male. Body beneath, and palpi either 
cinereous or ochreous; legs brownish-ochreous ; antennz pale ochreous, with a 
dusky-brown subterminal band and pale tip. 
