190 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



cinereous-brown outer margins. Forewing more or less angular at the apex, and 

 darker brown before tlie exterior margin ; with a very large median, black, white 

 pupilled ocellus with yellow outer ring, which sometimes has a minute upper, and 

 in some specimens both an upper and a lower, minute ocellule attached to it, and 

 enclosed within the yellow ring ; a minute subapical ocellus also sometimes present ; 

 transverse discal line distinct. Eindwhig with, or without, a single very minute sub- 

 anal white dot in the male, and two in the female. Underside either pale brownish- 

 testaceous or various shades of cinereous-ochreous, greyish-brown, with a more 

 or less distinct dark brown slender subbasal line and a discal transverse line, both 

 being rarely slightly denticulated, also, sometimes the discal line is even and slightly 

 pale bordered, or again, is dark brown and forming a suffused darker fascia. Fore- 

 wing with two or four, indistinct very minute white-pupilled blackish spots, the 

 lowest sometimes more prominent and larger. Bindwing with a series of seven 

 white-pupilled spots, of which the third, and sometimes the three from the anal 

 angle are larger and blind or more fully developed, the others very minute ; beyond 

 is a submarginal row of indistinct blackish minute slender denticules, or marginal 

 lines. In some of the specimens of both sexes of this brood reared by Mr. de 

 Niceville in Calcutta, the ocelli on underside of both wings are more or less fully 



developed, though of course small. Male with an elongate yellow glandular patch 

 of scales on the submedian vein on the underside of the forewing, and on the upper- 

 side of the hindwing a similar ochreous coloured patch overlapped by a subbasal tuft 

 of yellow radiating hairs. 



Expanse, <?lf, ? 2f inches. 



Habitat. — North-Eastern, Central, and Southern India ; Burma. 



Egg. — "Almost white, semitransparent ; laid singly or in batches on both sides 



of blades of grass." 



Young Oateepillak. — " Pale green ; head black, bearing two very obtuse black 



horns on the crown, and with the caudal processes very small." 



Adult Cateepillae. — " After last moult pale reddish, finely mottled with greenish 



ochreous and other colours. When full-grown about IJ inch long, fusiform ; 



anal segment with two short divergent processes ; dorsal line very pale greenish ; 



with lateral oblique obscure dai'kish stripes ; head blackish, armed with two divergent 



blunt conical reddish horns; both head and horns thickly set with small rough 



tubercles ; the face covered with short hairs ; the whole body rough or rugose and 



very thickly set with minute tubercles ; legs and underside of body coloured like 



the upper surface." 



CiiEYSALis. — Suspended by tail. " Semitransparent green ; smooth ; thorax very 



convex and constricted at base of the abdomen; spiracles black." (L. de Niceville.) 

 Both sexes of the dry-season brood of this species differ from those of the dry- 



