258 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



Debis emholima, Butler, Ent. Monthly Mag. iii. p. 77 (1866), ^ ; id. Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 115 



(1868). 

 Letlie Todara, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 305. ]\rarshall and de Nicc'ville, Butt, of India, 



etc. i. p. 151 (1883). Hampson, J. A. S. Beng. 1888, p. 348. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olivescent oclireous-brown, glossy; marginal 

 lines darker brown ; cilia brownisli-ochreous. Forewing without markings, except a 

 faint trace of a pale apical spot, and of the blackish ocelli of the underside. iltHcZ- 

 ■ifrnp- with three or four submarginal very indistinct small black spots. Underside 

 dark brown, suffused with a more or less vinaceous tint ; both wings with a trans- 

 verse subbasal wavy purplish-grey bordered dark duplex line. Forewing with a dark 

 brown oblique transverse discal purplish-bordered band, which is angulated at end 

 of the cell and below the lower median veinlet ; followed by a submarginal curved 

 row of five small purple-bordered ocelli, the upper one being ill-defined, and a 

 marginal narrow dark brown pale-bordered line. Hindiving with a transverse discal 

 medially-angulated purple-bordered dark brown line ; a submarginal row of six 

 purple-grey bordered ocelli, the upper one and the fifth only being regularly formed, 

 with a black centre, white pupil and ochreous outer ring, the others are longitudinally 

 oval and numerously white- speckled, the sixth being duplex ; marginal line distinct 

 and purple-grey bordered. 



Female. Upperside paler olivaceous ochreous-brown, externally dusky-brown. 

 ForeAi'ing with an oblique transverse discal ochreous-white irregular band broken by 

 the upper and middle median veinlets, and extending only to the lower median vein- 

 let ; two small subapical ochreous-white spots, and three submarginal small indistinct 

 black spots. Hindiving with four upper submarginal ochreous-yellow bordered black 

 spots, the upper second spot being large, quadrate, and extending to the pale- 

 bordered marginal line, the third and fourth smaller and black, the upper first and 

 the two lowest being the ocelli of the underside more or less indistinctly indicated. 

 Underside paler, markings as in the male, except that on the forewing the oblique 

 discal band is purplish-white, the lower submarginal ocellus sometimes absent, or 

 present only as a minute brown dot ; and the ocelli on both wings are more pro- 

 minent and bordered with purplish-white. Body beneath, legs and palpi at the sides 

 brownish ochreous. 



Expanse, 2^ to 2f inches. 



Adult Caterpillar. — Fusiform ; head conical, the vertex pointed and projected 

 forward, anal segment acutely pointed and projected hindward. Colour pale green 

 with paler transverse lines on each segment, a lateral and a sublateral pale-bordered 

 reddish stripe extending the whole length, including the head and anal segment. 

 Feeds on bamboo. 



