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1883, p. 352. Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 298, fig. ^ ? (1883) nee 

 Cramer. 

 Discophora Indica, StauJinger, Exot. Butt. i. p. 190, pi. 63, ? (1887). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dusky purpurescent-brown in fresh examples, fading 

 to dusky ochreous-brown ; cilia ochreous. Forevnng crossed by a discal and two 

 submarginal rows of bluish spots ; the discal row very small, the upper spot largest, 

 either rounded or linear in shape, and in some they are more or less obsolete, or 

 occasionally, all, except the upper spot are absent ; the middle row larger, dentate, 

 the upper being sometimes coalesced with its opposite discal ; the outer row smaller 

 and either rounded or lunate. Ilindioing with a large discal velvety Uaclc glandular 

 patch of raised scales ; these scales being slightly longer and of more irregular 

 width than those in D. Celinde ; with or without faint traces of a submarginal row 

 of pale ochreous lunules or points, and sometimes also of an inner discal series of 

 points ; this wing also has the exterior margin either quite even, and angulate in its 

 middle, or is somewhat scalloped and less distinctly angulate. Underside brownish - 

 ochreous, with numerous short transverse, more or less intense dai'k brown strigs, 

 and which are generally less apparent basally ; crossed by a dark brown slender 

 zigzag subbasal line, a broad discal fascia, an ill-defined slender sinuous submarginal 

 line, and a lunular marginal fascia, the interspace between the latter being more or 

 less washed with lilacine-white, which is most intense posteriorly. Forewing also 

 with three dark brown dots across base of the cell, a ringlet-spot on the discocellulars 

 and a dot below it. Hindwing also with two basal cell dots and a discocellular dot ; 

 and a large upper and lower ocellus, both with ochreous centre, white lunate- 

 pupil, and a slender black outer ring ; a third smaller lower ocellus sometimes 

 being present between the upper medians ; and, in some specimens, generally in 

 those which have the exterior margin of hindwing most angulate (probably the 

 dry-season brood), the upper and lower ocellus are both smaller and less-defined. 

 Body beneath, palpi, and legs ochreous ; abdomen beneath with a small glandular 

 fatcli of laxly raised ochreous scales placed on each side of the keel near the base ; 

 antennae brown above, ochreous beneatK 



Female. Upperside somewhat paler, darkest upon the discal area. Foreiving 

 with the three transverse rows of spots 1bluish-white, larger, the lower discal 

 diamond-shape, the upper largest and disposed inward ; the middle row broadly- 

 dentate, the upper incurved and coalescent with the opposite discal ; the outer row 

 rounded or broadly lunate ; the discocellular spot of the underside sometimes slightly 

 apparent, Hindwing with a complete discal row and two submarginal rows of pale 

 ochreous decreasing spots, the discal spots being obtusely dentate, the middle row 

 acutely dentate, and the outer row more or less lunate or rounded ; followed by 

 marginal lunules. Underside pale olivescent-ochreous, numerously covered with 

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