NYMPHALINJS. (Qro^ip lihenitina.) 157 



LEBADEA I8MENE (Plate 252, fig. 1, la, c? ? ). 



Limeniiis lamene, Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. ii. p. 276, pi. 34, fig. 2, ^ (1850). 

 Lebadea Ismene, Felder, Nenes Lep. p. 28 (1861). de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 152, 

 pi. 19, fig. 79, ^ (1886). 



Wet and Dry -season brood. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside rich fulvous ; cilia alternately edged with white. 

 Both wings crossed by an inwardly-oblique discal white broad band. Foreiving 

 with the band somewhat macular and blackish bordered, being composed of 

 posteriorly-increasing broad irregular quadrate-shaped spots, its inner edge 

 throughout being irregular and its outer edge sinuous ; followed by a contiguous 

 transverse row of slender white lunules, which extend upward to the costa before 

 the apex, each of the latter being outwardly defined by a black lunule ; beyond is a 

 submarginal less-defined whitish-edged black sinuous line, the points of which are 

 directed inward between the veins ; the inner submarginal interspace being very 

 elightly powdered with greyish-white scales, and the apex with a broad greyish-white 

 patch ; three slender subbasal zigzag black lines across the cell, which are continued 

 below to the submedian vein, and another pair enclosing the discocellular veinlets, 

 the enclosed interspaces being brighter fulvous, the interspace between the outer 

 cell-bar and the discocellular being grey speckled. Eindwing with the band 

 blackish-bordered and ending in a point above anal angle, its inner edge even, its 

 outer edge slightly sinuous ; followed by a contiguous row of more or less defined 

 whitish lunules, which latter are rather broadly outwardly-edged by an inner discal 

 row of black dentate spots, beyond which is an outer discal row of more or less 

 slightly-defined blackish dentate spots, the two latter rows being still less defined 

 in the dry-season brood ; these are followed by a submarginal white-edged 

 black sinuous line ; two slender black subbasal zigzag lines extending from 

 the costal vein across the cell to the submedian vein. Underside much paler, 

 palest and dullest in dry-season brood ; the base of the wings and the abdominal 

 margin of the hindwing greyish ; — all the markings, as above, but less distinct, 

 and lilacine-white. 



Female. Upperside darker fulvous, markings as in the male, but more 

 prominent. Foreiving with the discal broad white band more macular, the 

 contiguous white lunules having the black dentate spots placed outwardly against 

 them more prominently, the apical white patch much smaller, the submarginal 

 sinuous hne more distinct. Eindwing wdth broader black inner-discal dentate spots 

 and with an outer discal similar row of less defined blackish dentate patches. 

 Underside as in the male ; the markings more distinct. Body and palpi above 

 fulvous ; beneath and forelegs, middle and hind femora greyish-white ; middle and 



