24 LEPIBOPTERA INDIGA. 



elongated broad entire discoidal streak, which is somewhat claviform in shape, and 

 its lower end extending slightly for some distance below base of the upper median 

 veinlet, and its upper edge very slightly indented at end of the cell ; a subapical 

 broad outwardly-oblique band, and an inwardly-oblique lower continuous broad 

 band extending to the posterior margin ; beyond which are two submarginal 

 slightly-defined sinuous greyish-ochreous incomplete lines. Hindwini/ crossed by a 

 broad inner-discal band, and an outer band, followed by a slightly-defined greyish- 

 ochreous outer marginal line. Underside brownish-ochreous, with dusky-brown 

 intervening discal spaces between the veins ; discoidal streak and bands, as above, 

 pale glossy violescent ochreous-white, their inner edges being suffused with pale 

 ochreous. Forewing also with the inner marginal line entire and violescent-grey, 

 the outer line less defined. Hindiving also with a short basal and a less-defiued 

 subbasal fascia, a medial-discal slender sinuous line, and the marginal line violescent- 

 grey. 



Female. Upperside as in male ; markings the same. Underside darker and 

 brighter brownish-ochreous than in male, with all the markings more prominent. 

 Bodi/ and palpi above brownish-black ; palpi and thorax beneath, and forelegs pale 

 grey ; middle and hind-legs, and abdomen beneath pale greyish-ochreous ; antennae 

 black, tip reddish. 



Expanse, <? 2j^, ? 2^-0 inches. 



Dry-season brood (Plate 298, fig. 1, larva a,nd pupa; 1, a, b, c, d, (^ 9). 



Male and female. Upperside with the discoidal streak and discal bands some- 

 what broader than in wet-season brood, the marginal lines on forewing yellowish- 

 ochreous. Underside with the ground-colour paler brownish-ochreous than in 

 wet-season, the cell-streak and discal bands broader, as above, but less defined. 

 Male with a conspicuous tuft of laxly exserted hlaclc glandular scales of varied 

 lengthened clavate shapes, disposed laterally along middle segments of abdomen 

 beneath. This tuft was not observable in males of wet-season form that we 

 examined. 



Expanse, c? 2 1^0. ? ^1% inches. 



Caterpillar. — " Resembles that of R. Hordonia in form, but the head is bifid at 

 the top, and the dorsal points are wanting, while the last segment is produced into 

 a single blunt point. The colour is dark greenish-brown, the fore-part, as in B. 

 Hordonia, being much darker than the rest, but bordered with pale grey "(Davidson 

 and Aitken, I.e. 2-51). 



Chrysalis. — " Like that of B. Hordonia, but rather broader, and the wing-cases 

 more evenly expanded " {id. 251). 



