1^6 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Underside with the ground cok)ur almost as dark as it is above. Forewing with 

 nearly the entire ujiper half covered with minute orange scales, a white spot at the end 

 of the cell, another half way between it and the outer margin, both broadly ringed with 

 black, and three indistinct white dots below the outer spot in an oblique line with it. 

 Hindwing entirely covered with minute orange scales, a more or less complete series of 

 discal white dots in the interspaces, each ringed with black. Antennje black, club and 

 shaft ochreous-white on the underside, with minute black dots ; palpi, head and body 

 blackish-brown, with some orange scaling, orange-grey beneath, the abdomen with grey 

 lateral bands. 



Female. Upperside paler and duller in colour. Forewing generally with seven 

 semi-hyaline white spots across the disc, four in an outwardly oblique, slightly curved 

 line from near the costa one-fifth from the apex, the fifth immediately below the fourth, 

 very minute, two larger spots in an inwardly oblique line, near the base of the second 

 median interspace and in the middle of the first, and an opaque ochreous-white, 

 indistinct sjjot in the middle of the interno-median interspace. Hindwing without 

 markings. Underside paler and pink-tinted. Foreioing with the inner area sufi"used 

 with brown, a spot at the end of the cell, the discal spots as on the upperside. 

 Hir.dwing with a white spot in the middle of the disc, one above it, and another below 

 it, well separated from each other, all these spots both above and below somewhat 

 variable in number in diS'erent examples. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? IxV ^o l-j^ inches. 



Larva cylindrical, the last segment rounded at the extremity and somewhat 

 depressed, the head triangular in shape seen from in front ; colour of head dirty 

 whitish-yellow, with a red-brown marginal band meeting the opposite one on the 

 vertex, an impressed brown line from the vertex to the apex of the clypeus, and a 

 short brown line parallel to this on each side of it running from the centre pf the 

 clypeus to half way up the face ; clypeus light Itrown, with a dark brown line from 

 the ajjex to the base ; jaws dark Itrowu ; colour of the body is a watery- looking green, 

 on the sides yellow, dorsally spotted minutely with green ; a dorsal and sub-dorsal 

 dark green line ; surface oily-looking. The hinder edge of the last segment somewhat 

 shortly hairy. Length, 27 mm. 



Pupa stout, circular in transverse section, except at the head, where it is oval, 

 the head is broad as the ej^es are prominent, constriction dorsal slight ; thorax slightly 

 humped ; cremaster shortly triangular, pointed, with a single bunch of hooked hairs at 

 extremity, spiracular expansions of segment 2 raised slightly, semicircular, facing 

 forwards, dark brown in colour ; proboscis produced to the end of segment 9 ; surface 

 slightly, shortly hairy. Length, 15 mm. 



Habits. — The imago keeps its wings closed over its back when at rest, it does 

 not like the strong sunlight, but prefers to keep to the underwood in the jungles ; the 



