68 LEPIBOPTEBA INDICA. 



line, followed by a series of five similar ocellated spots, a sixth or lowest spot 

 sometimes also obsolescently present, the two upper and the fifth the largest and 

 with red and black centres ; beyond is a submarginal and marginal somewhat 

 diffused blackish lunular line. Underside lilacine ochreous-white, the outer borders 

 slightly tinged with pale ochreous ; the basal and outer markings as on upperside, 

 but very slender and faintly defined ; the discal line sinuous on the fore wing and 

 more or less regularly straight on the hindwing ; the two largest particoloured 

 ocelli on both wings slightly defined and paler ochreous, or obsolescent. Forewing 

 also with an extra basal faint line across the cell, the other cell lines extending 

 faintly hindward to across cell of the hindwing and partly beyond its median 

 vein. 



Female. Upperside darker ; the transverse lines somewhat more diffused, the 

 ocellate spots brighter, with the interspaces bordering the discal and submarginal 

 line more or less lunularly whitish, mostly more defined on the forewing. Underside 

 pale dull yellowish or brownish-ochreous, darkest alternately between the markings 

 and on outer borders ; markings as in underside of male, but more distinct, Bodi) 

 and palpi above fuhginous-grey, beneath and legs greyish-white ; antennse black 

 above, ochreous beneath and outwardly edged with white, tip ochreous. 



Expanse, S $ 2-^q to 2^^ inches. 



Larva. — Cylindrical; armed with a dorsal and lateral rows of branched. spines. 

 Colour fuliginous-black, with a paler subdorsal line, and a sublateral ochreous- 

 brown line ; spines black. 



Pupa. — Rather stout; purplish-grey; head-piece broadly obtuse in front and 

 slightly cleft ; thorax and abdomen with a dorsal row of acute tubercular points and 

 lesser lateral points. 



Habitat. — Plains of Eastern and Peninsular India ; Assam ; Ceylon ; Nicobars ; 

 Burma ; Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula, etc. 



Aberration. — A male, from Silchar, Cachar, in Mr. P. Crowley's collection, 

 has the upperside dusky greyish-fuliginous, broadly darkest on the costal border of 

 forewing and anteriorly on the hindwing. Both wings with the ordinary transverse 

 discal sinuous line absent, the two submarginal lines united, and forming an ill- 

 defined submarginal dusky fascia. On the forewing the interspaces of the two 

 pairs of sinuous cell-streaks is fuliginous-grey, the outer-discal transverse row of 

 ordinary ocelli obsolescent and without any indication of ochreous interiors ; on the 

 hindwing these ocelli are present but ill-defined, and slightly show the ochreous 

 centres. On the underside the ground-colour is of the ordinary pale lilacine 

 ochreous-white, the discal and outer line slightly indicated, but diffused, the ocelli 

 also very slightly indicated, the basal transverse lines indicated by fuliginous-brown 

 scaled inner and outer interspaces. 



