12G LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Distribution.— Taken by us at Khaudalla and Malabar Hills, Bombay, where the 

 Dry-season form is very plentiful in October, November and December ; we have it 

 also from Calicut, and several Wet-season forms from different parts of Ceylon taken in 

 April, May, June and July. Davidson reports it from the Canara District, Aitken and 

 C(^mljer from the Konkan, Betham from Matheran, and Fergusson from Travancore. 



HEBOMOIA ROEPSTORFI. 

 Plate 592, figs. 2, ^ , 2c, ? (Wet-season Brood), 2b, <J, 2a ? (Dry-season Brood). 

 Hebomoia Boepstorfi, "Wood- Mason, Journ. As. Sec. Beng. 1880, pp. 134, 1.50 and 235. Wood- 



and de Niceville, I.e. 1881, p. 251, pi. 14, figs. 3, 4 and 5, ^ J . Bingham, Fauna 

 of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 276, pi. 18, fig. 122 (1907). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 2, 2c, $ $). 



Male. Upperside. Foreioing white tinged with sulphur-yellow ; the costal line 

 black as in Australis, the orange apical patch broader, spreading into the apex of the 

 discoidal cell, the outer black band similar, the inner band complete and more or less 

 even, but usually thin throughout, except at its upper and lower ends where it is 

 slightly thickened, and usually with two indentations at veins 2 and 4, the 

 sub-marginal row of black spots small and nearly round. Hindwing white with the 

 yellow tinge deeper, the exterior margin with a thin black band, thickened on the veins. 

 Underside marked as in Australis, but the apical patch of the forewings and the entire 

 hindwings suifused with dark ochreous-yellow. 



Female. Upperside. Forewivg white tinged with sulphur-yellow, with the basal 

 portions irrorated with black scales, the black costal margin thicker than in the male, 

 the apical orange patch reduced, the black outer border being broader, the inner border 

 similar, the sub-marginal black spots much larger, spear-shaped, and much nearer to the 

 margin. Hindwing white, with the yellow tinge deeper than in the male, almost 

 chrome-yellow in the outer portions in most specimens, the exterior marginal band 

 broader and angled on the veins, the discal row of black spots smaller than in Australis, 

 but of similar shape. Underside of both wings similar to the male. 



Expanse, ^ ? 4 inches. 



Dry -season Brood (Figs. 2b, 2a, $ %). 

 Male. Upperside. Forewing coloured as in the Wet-season form, the costal 

 margin and orange apical patch similar, except that there is always an orange spot at 

 the lower end of the patch below vein 2, the black inner margin to the patch is 

 generally absent, sometimes faintly indicated, the sub-marginal spots are generally 

 reduced to mere dots. Hindwing with the coloration of the Wet-season form, but the 

 band on the exterior border is reduced to a few black spots on the veins and is some- 

 times entirely absent. 



