182 LEPIDOFTERA INDICA. 



Female. TJpperside oclireous-brown ; exterior margins cinereous-bi'own. 

 Forewing less acute at the apex ttan G. Perseus ; the ocellus generally with the 

 quadrate yellowish bordering area. Hinclwing with, or without, a very small black- 

 ish ocellule between the lower medians. Underside rufescent-brown, speckled with 

 darker brown ; basal area very slightly darker ; the transverse lines more or less 

 defined ; the ocelli small or indicated only by minute black spots with white pupils, 

 the three lowest on the hindwing being then generally the most prominent. Body 

 beneath, legs, and sides of palpi pale ochreous or greyish-brown. 



Expanse, (?1| to If ; ? 1| to 2i inches. 



Habitat. — Eastern, Central, and Southei-n India ; Ceylon. 



Individuals of the dry-season brood of G. Pohjdeda are distinguishable from 

 those of the dry-season brood of 0. Perseus by the large pale-bordered ocellus on 

 the upperside of the forewing, and in the hindwings of both sexes having a scalloped 

 exterior margin, which latter is very prominent in most of the females. 



Specimens of the dry-season brood of this species, collected by Mr. E. E. 

 Green at Pundaloya in the West-Central division of Ceylon, are, in both sexes, darker 

 coloured on the underside than the Continental Indian examples, and have a pale 

 more or less ochreous fascia to the transverse discal line ; in one of the males there 

 are four small ocelli on one side and five on the other forewing, and those on the 

 hindwing are also more developed than in ordinary specimens of this brood. Other 

 similar males and females in Mr. J. Jenner "VYeir's collection from the same locality, 

 Pundaloya, have each five very small ocelli in a linear sequence all on the underside 

 of the forewing. All the males have a short blachish glandular patch on both fore and 

 hindwing, and are the same as that figured by Mr. de Niceville (Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. 1884, pi. 3, f. 2) as representing the male of G. Polydecta. 



Historical Note. — Cramer's figures of Pohjdeda (Pap. Exot. 11, pi. 144, f. e, 

 f) represent a female (which has evidently been over-coloured by his artist), and 

 is doubtless that of a specimen of an early dry-season or so-called unocellated brood, 

 in which the ocelli on the underside of both wings are much reduced in size, or are 

 undeveloped, and disposed iu a more linear sequence. Polt/deda is an undoubted 

 Calysisme, and not a Samanta, as stated by Mr. de Niceville in his paper on this 

 species in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1884, p. 88. Cramer's figure shows four small 

 ocelli on the underside of the forewing, the lower two of which are correctly dis- 

 posed between the median branches and the upper two between the upper median and 

 upper radial. In Mr. de Niceville's representation of this figure in the paper above 

 mentioned (Plate 3, fig. 1) and there given as a true copy of Cramer's figure, the details 

 of the veining and positions of the ocelli on the underside of the forewing has been in- 

 correctly copied by his artist, as may easily be seen by reference to Cramer's original 

 figure. In Mr. de Niceville's copy (Plate 3, fig. 1) the lower ocellus on the forewing 

 is represented as being situated between the submedian vein and lower median branch. 



