74 LEPIDOPTERA IXDICA. 



Aharatha taijlori, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 88, pi. 10, fig. I. '5, ^. 

 Caprona taylori, de Ehe-Philipe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. 1898, p. 598. 



AVet-season Brood (Figs. 3, $, 3a, ?, 3b, ^, 3c, ?). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark oehreous-browu. Forewing with three small 

 semi-hyaline white sub-apical spots, in an oblique outwardly curved series from near 

 the costa, two within the end of the cell, the upper one minute, often absent ; a small 

 spot near the base of the second median interspace, a much larger one in the middle 

 of the first median interspace, and two minute dots inwardly oblique below it ; the 

 cell blackish, the basal half of the iuterno-median interspace and the hinder interspace 

 blackish, a blackish fascia on the outer side of the sub-apical spots, and another hind- 

 wards outside the discal spots, a marginal narrow band of pale pinkish-brown, the 

 upper half double, with some pinkish suffusion outside the dark fascia, all very difficult 

 to describe and somewhat indistinct in dark examples. liindiciiig with a double 

 pinkish-ochreous mark inside the end of the cell, closely followed by a similarly 

 coloured outwardly curved row of spots, one in each interspace, the uppermost one sub- 

 quadrate, the others somewhat elongate ; the outer part of the wing in fresh examples 

 smeared with pale-grey scales, a narrow brown band on the outer margin, its inner 

 edge somewhat diffuse. Cilia of forewincf dark brown, of hindwinsr whitish, with small 

 brown patches at the vein ends. Underside. Forewing pale rufous-brown, the basal 

 third suffused with white, with an irregular brown line across it, the spots and fascise 

 as above, the space beyond them without markings. Hindwing white, the extreme 

 outer margin rufous-brown, some blue-grey suffusion inside it, and within this narrow- 

 suffusion is a complete series of sub-marginal blackish spots, one in each interspace, and 

 two blacker spots in continuation below the costa, and indications of a pale blue-grey 

 discal lunular band ; paljji, pectus, body below and the legs white ; head and body 

 above concolorous with the wings. 



Female. Upperside paler than the male, the basal and outer brown fasciae 

 consequently more prominently brown, as also the outer pale markings, which are still 

 paler and more distinct, making the wing more variegated. Hindwing with the discal 

 band of pale spots similar, with a few additional pale spots outside, and the discal pale 

 spots have a row of brown spots running through their outer ends, the grey suffusion 

 limited to the outer margin and the abdominal fold. Underside. Forewing much 

 paler than in the male, markings similar, the Ijrown patches prominent. Hindwing 

 with the white portion more limited and often of a duller colour, more grey than whitCj 

 all but the uppermost spots of the sub-marginal series more or less joined together into 

 a ])and ; a discal series of small brown spots, one in each interspace. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 1/^ to 1 j% inches. 



