266 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



margin broadly blackish ; the outer margin with a narrow black band, the upper 

 portion composed of a series of spots joined together, inwardly pale-edged, and often 

 with black marks running shortly up the veins, two large jet black spots in interspaces 

 2 and 3, and two minute black spots at the anal angle, all capped more or less with 

 orange. Tails black tipped with white. Cilia of forewing grey, of hindwing white with 

 black points at the vein ends. Underside greyish-white, all the markings white-edged. 

 Foreicing with a lunular mark at the end of the cell, a discal row of six lunular marks 

 in line, the upper one a little inwards. Hindwing with three sub-basal small black 

 spots, the middle one well inwards, and another similar spot, sub-apical close to the 

 costa ; a slender mark at the end of the cell, and a discal row of six lunular marks, the 

 upper one inwards, just below the sub-apical black spot, the lowest mark also well 

 inwards, the others in a gentle outward curve ; the discal row on both wings well 

 separated from the marginal series ; both wings with a terminal brownish line and 

 sub-terminal series of marks, lunular in the hindwings and between them a row of 

 brownish spots, the two spots in interspaces 2 and 3, and sometimes another in 

 interspace 4 black and large with some metallic specks and capped with obscure orange. 

 Antennae black, ringed with white, head and body blackish above, with blue pube- 

 scence, white beneath. 



Female. Upperside paler than the male, the blackish bands on both wings 

 much broader ; blackish lunular line generally present at the end of the cell on both 

 wings. Underside more white than the male, the discal series similarly well separated 

 from the marginal series in both wings, the lunular marks composing them darker and 

 more prominent. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1 to l-^ inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. Id, ^, le, ?). 



Male and Female. Upperside pale lilacine greyish-blue ; veins more or less 

 prominent, the terminal bands narrower and much paler, the black spots capped with 

 orange on the hindwing, small and generally present in both sexes. Underside with 

 the markings similar to those of the Wet-season form, but very minute and indistinct. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ -^q to ^q inch. 



Description of Genitalia. — Harpago decidedly narrower than in E. argiades, 

 with the frontal incision of about the same depth, but the lower extremity is not of a 

 rounded form, but is much straighter and sub-serrate, the upper long overlapping 

 point is narrower, less curved, and ending in a much finer point which is evenly 

 curved, not sharply so as in E. argiades, the tegumen is broader, the pointed apex 

 being shorter with the falces slightly hooked ; the penis sheath is much shorter, 

 narrower and terminating more finely in proportion to its size (Bethune-Baker). 



Habitat. — Southern India, Ceylon. 



