133 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



submarginal series of obsolescent or distinct white dots. In some varieties of the 

 male the foi-ewing has, also, two more or less obsolescent pale outer marginal 

 liinular lines, and the bind wing a submarginal series of more or less obsolescent 

 bidentate marks, and a slender marginal line, or both are more or less distinctly 

 defined, and in others are very prominent, and bluish-white. Underside of various 

 shades of dark olivaceous-brown. Forewing with a prominent bluish-white upper- 

 discal oblique macular band extending to the costa, subapical spots and continuous 

 row of inner-submarginal dots, followed by a prominent brownish- white submarginal 

 row of double-lunules, widening posteriorly, and a marginal single lunularline ; some 

 bluish-white and black speckles along base of the costa and three small black- 

 edged white spots along upper border of the cell. Hliidwing with a variable broad 

 prominent bluish-white transverse discal band ending in a costal spot, followed 

 by an inner submarginal row of round white or brownish-white dots, a more or 

 less prominent submarginal broad band formed of double conical conjoined-spots, 

 and then a marginal linear lunular line. 



Female. Upperside dark olivaceous-brown ; cilia alternated with white. Fore- 

 icing with a few basal costal blue-speckled spots, an npper-discal, oblique, more or 

 less defined bluish-macular fascia — corresponding to the white fascia of the male — 

 an inner submarginal series of creamy-white or brownisb- white spots, the two upper- 

 most being the largest and contiguous, followed by a submarginal double-lunular 

 and a marginal single-lunular line. Hindunng with an inner-submarginal row of 

 creamy-white or brownish-white round spots, followed by a submarginal band formed 

 of double conical conjoined spots, and then by a marginal single lunular line. 

 Underside paler olivaceous-brown, or ochreous-brown. Forewing with the inner- 

 submarginal and outer marginal markings as on upperside, the oblique upper-discal 

 macular fascia subobsolete and brownish-white ; the basal area sometimes suffused 

 with reddish-ochreous ; the basal costal and cell-spots as in the male. Hindwivg 

 with a transverse discal creamy-white or brownish-white ill-defined fascia, followed by 

 an inner submarginal row of round spots, a broad submarginal band formed of 

 double conical continuous spots, and then a marginal lunular line. Body of male 

 above dark blue-black, beneath brown ; head and front of thorax above spotted with 

 ■white dots ; palpi blackish with a white basal tuft above and streak beneath ; legs 

 olivaceous-brown; femora beneath white streaked; body beneath white spotted; 

 antennae black ; body and palpi of female above dark olivaceous-brown, white 

 spotted as in male. 



Expanse, 6 2^^ to 3i"o, ? 2^% to 3i^o incbes. 



Dry-season brood (Plate 330, fig. 1, la, b, c, ^ ; d, e, f, ? ). 

 Male. Larger than in zret-season brood. Ujsperside similar, except that the 



