218 LEPIBOPTEBA INDIOA. 



gradually expanding from the middle of the costa to the apex, which is broadly black, 

 then down the outer margin ,to the hinder angle, where it broadens a little, the 

 inner margin of the black band in a regular continuous curve, with little points on 

 the veins, a line of three small black spots across the end of the cell, three larger spots 

 in an oblique line in the interno-median and the two median interspaces. Hindwing 

 with the basal and abdominal half suffused with dark brown, the abdominal fold also 

 brown, a fairly broad and uniform black band on the costa and outer margin, a slightly 

 broader black band from the apex towards the anal angle, where it is lost in the 

 blackish-brown suffusion ; tail brown, the middle of the outer half suffused with white, 

 tips white. Cilia of both wings brown, tipped with white towards the anal angle of 

 the hindwing. Underside dull ochreous-yellow ; bands darker than the ground colour, 

 edged with fine black lunular lines, those inside the discal band only indicated by their 

 black edgings, all formed of more or less disconnected, large spots in somewhat 

 irregular series, one series before the middle, another across the middle and a discal 

 band in three parts, the upper two of two conjoined spots each, the lower portion of 

 three conjoined spots shifted a little nearer the margin, both wings with a double 

 sub-marginal series of pale lunules ; all these bands on both wings very indistinct and 

 more or less obsolete in this Wet-season form. Antennge black, with white dots 

 beneath, club with an orange tip ; head and body above and below concolorous with 

 the wings. 



Female. Upperside like the male, but all the black bands and spots much 

 broader, the basal brown suffusion more extended, and in place of three spots in an 

 oblique line in the forewing there is a somewhat broad blackish-brown band which is 

 continued hindwards until it is merged in the suffusion. Underside exactly as in the 

 male, nearly all the bands obsolete. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? 1^ to 1-j^ inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. 2c, $, 2d, ?, 2e, ?). 



Male and Female. Upperside much paler in colour and somewhat fulvous, the 

 marginal black bands paler and much narrower, the spots quite minute, llindiciny 

 with the costal and outer marginal bands reduced to a little more than a thick line, 

 very little, if any, basal brown suffusion on either wing. Underside as in the other 

 form, but the ground colour is usually darker, and all the bands are visibly and often 

 fairly prominent. 



Expanse of wings, $ ^ li^ to 1^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Sylhet, Assam, Cachar, Burma, Perak. 



Distribution. — Elwes records it from the Naga Hills ; de Niceville from Cachar, 

 Jorehat, Assam. We have it from Sylhet, Sikkim and the Khasia Hills. Hewitson's 

 type is a male of the Dry-season form. 



