U LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



band is outwardly-bordered by a row of conical white or pale yellowish-wbite spots, 

 and the veins from the discal band to the outer margin are black lined, those in the 

 discal spaces being slightly edged with white scales ; the outer marginal narrow- 

 black band enclosing a slender bluish-white lunular line. Body above ferruginous 

 with a blackish dorsal line ; body beneath whitish ; palpi above black, beneath pale 

 ferruginous, the sides being white ; forelegs white ; middle and hind legs brownish 

 above, whitish beneath ; antenua3 black. 



Female. Upperside paler ferruginous. Both wings with black markings as in 

 the male, b\it slightly narrowed, and the extreme outer border showing a slightly- 

 defined pale mai'ginal line ; but more generally, the forewing has the inner black 

 markings narrower, the lower portion of discal band centred with ferruginous, 

 and the lower jwrtion of the sinuous submarginal band is either absent, or entire^ 

 sometimes broadly so — and is inwardly bordered by more or less defined blackish 

 lunules ; the outer row of ferruginous spots also occasionally being smaller; and on 

 the hindwing the basal area is much less blackened, being generally almost free 

 from black scales, and the rows of spots are more distinct, the submarginal black 

 band is discally-inwardly-bordered by a well-defined, or prominent, black slender 

 lunular line, which latter generally extends along the veins to the band and thus 

 encloses an inner row of small ferruginous spots. Underside paler than in male, 

 markings similar, those on the forewing being narrower, the discal series inter- 

 rupted, and the bands on the hindwing very pale yellow. 



Dry-season hrood (Plate 381, fig 1, li, ? ). 



Ilypaiiis simphjc, Butler, Pioc. Zool. Soc. LonJ. 18S3, p. 140, pi. 21, fig. 8, ? . Swinhoe, P.Z.S. 



1883, p. 129. 

 Byhlia simplex, de Niceville, Butt, of India, ii. p. 15 (1886). 



Male and female. Upperside as in ivet season brood. Underside darker coloured. 

 Forewing. Ground-colour darker ferruginous, but with similar black markings. 

 Hindwimj . Ground colour deep ochreous red, the transverse bands either pure white 

 or pale yellowish-white and very prominent ; the veins from the discal band to outer 

 margin edged with grey, and the submarginal ordinary white-spotted, inner black 

 band is either narrowed, or the black edging to the spots is obsolescent or quite 

 absent, and these white spots reduced in size or to a lunular line. 



Expanse (Wet and Dry), 6 ? l^-^o to '^lo inches. 



L.VKVA. — Cylindrical ; slender. Segments armed with two dorsal longitudinal 

 rows of twelve rather long branched-spines, and lateral rows of shorter similar 

 spines ; head armed with a longer pair of erect branched-spines. Colour. First 



