﻿26 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



SEPHISA DICHROA (Plate 197, fig. 1, la, b, c, d, e, c? ? ; larva and pupa). 



Limenitis diehroa, Kollar in Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. pt. 2, p. 429, pi. 8, fig. 1, 2 (1844). 

 Gastalia dich-oa, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. B. I. Company, i. p. 199 (1857). 



Sephisa diehroa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 240. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 47, 

 pi. 20, fig. 93, cJ (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside olivescent-black ; cilia alternated with white between 

 the veins. Forewing crossed by two outwardly-oblique ochreous-yellow macular 

 bands, three very small subapical superposed ochreous spots, followed by a 

 submarginal series of paler small spots. Ilindiving with the discal area broadly 

 ochreous-yellow, traversed by black veins ; followed by a submarginal row of broad 

 conical ochreous-yellow spots, and a slightly-defined bluish-grey slender marginal 

 line ; a bluish-grey speckled subanal dot situated between the middle and lower 

 median veinlets ; in some a small upper discocellular black spot is present. Underside 

 with markings similar to those on the upperside, the black portions paler and 

 greenish tinged. Forewing with the base of the costa, a spot at the base of cell and 

 another below the cell, a broken streak at end of the cell, the three subapical spots, 

 submarginal macular band and marginal line dull bluish pearly-white. Hindwing 

 with the basal and discal interspaces, submarginal baud and marginal line, and the 

 subanal spot also dull bluish pearly-white ; the upper discal interspace and the 

 submarginal band generally tinged with ochreous-yellow ; a short black streak near 

 base of the cell and a dot above base of the middle median veinlet, these two latter 

 and also the discal black lunular band more or less narrow, macular, or obsolescent. 

 Bodg and palpi above black; palpi beneath, forelegs and femora beneath white ; 

 legs above bluish ; antennae black ; eyes reddish, naked. 



Female. Upperside similar to the male ; the forewing differing only in the 

 upper portion of the outer discal band being paler or whitish, the three subapical 

 spots pure white, and the submarginal series of spots also whitish. Underside as in 

 the male. 



Expanse, (? 2]^o to 2^,, ? 2^-0 to 3 inches. 



Caterpillar. — " Extenuate in form ; skin wrinkled. Colour blue-green, with 

 more vivid green suffusions about the centre of the segments ; pale, almost hoary, on 

 the sides, and deep coloured on the back. Skin shagreened with minute pale 

 yellowish dots, and covered with very short bristly hairs on the back, and fine short 

 silky hairs on the sides and below. Head very much larger than the second 

 segment, with antlered horns ; crown deeply notched between the horns, flat in 

 front, and cheeks rather flat-sided. In prolongation of the horns in front is a pale 

 mauve-coloured stripe on each cheek ; mouth black, and a minute black spot just 

 behind the eyes ; colour of the head otherwise pale green, that of the cheeks, though 

 pale, being a rather more vivid colour than that of the body ; top of head broad and 



