116 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



followed by a submarginal series of black inverted points. Underside pale greyish 

 ochreous-brown, palest and most greyisb basally ; the basal black-lined marks 

 distinct; outer borders suffused with lilacine-grey. Foreiving with a more or less 

 prominently-defined blackish submarginal broad lunular fascia, and a discal series of 

 white dentate spots and subapical spots. Hindwing with an obscurely-defined 

 narrow submarginal dusky-brown fascia, and a row of black points. Body and 

 palpi above dark brown ; beneath, palpi and legs pale greyish-ochreous ; antennae 

 blackish, tipt with red. 



Female. Upperside paler brown, of a more or less olivaceous or purpnrescent- 

 brown tint ; transverse fasciae darker brown. Forewing with the discal area between 

 tbe fascia more or less irrorated with olivescent-grey scales ; a series of five larger- 

 sized discal white spots, and two subapical spots, the discal series in individual 

 specimens varying iiniformly in size, and in some the two lowest, or the lowest only, 

 is small, sometimes even (in Burmese specimens) the lowest is larger than the 

 penultimate, and occasionally (Darjiling specimens) the two npper are smaller ; 

 the third and fifth absent and the fourth also small, also, in some few (Bombay and 

 Malabar specimens) there is a very small longitudinal whitish spot beneath the lower 

 median veinlet ; the subapical white spots small. Underside of the same ground- 

 colour as in the male. South Indian specimens being generally greyer than those of 

 Upper Indian and Burmese ; markings the same. Forewing with the discal white 

 spots and subapical sjDots as on the upperside. 



Expanse, c? 2^^ to 2i^oj ? 3 to S^q inches. 



Dry-Season Brood (Plate 235, figs. 1, la, b, c, ^J ? ). 

 Euthalia Merilia, Swinlioe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 286. 



Male. Upperside paler than in wet-season brood, and of a more uniformly pale 

 olive-brown tint ; basal marks black ; the discal and submarginal fasciae being 

 dusky-brown and well-defined ; two very indistinct slender whitish lunate spots 

 showing on the upper edge of the discal fascia on the forewing, but obsolete in some 

 specimens. Underside of a uniform pale brownish-ochreous, the outer margins of 

 both wings washed with lilacine-grey ; transverse fasciae either obsolescent, or their 

 course being indicated by a slightl}^ darker brownish-ochreous tint. 



Female. Upperside paler olivescent-brown than in male, the transverse fasciae 

 obscurely defined ; basal marks less distinct. Forewing with the upper discal and 

 subapical spots brownish-white, the upper spots only, above the median, being 

 present in some specimens, in others the lower spots are obsolescent or minute. 

 Underside of the same uniformly pale brownish-ochreous, with the transverse fascige 

 obsolescent or obscurely define 1 as in the male ; basal marks slender. 



Expanse, 6 2^^, ? 2^^^ tc 3 inches. 



