272 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 3, $, 3a, $, 3b, ?). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside purplisli-blue. Forewing with some pale blue irides- 

 cence at the base and the basal half of the costa ; a fine black line on the costa and 

 outer margin. Hindwing, costa rather broadly blackish, a series of sub-terminal 

 triangular spots, decreasing in size upwards (obsolescent in some examples), and a 

 black marginal line. Cilia brown at the base, white outwardly. Underside brownish- 

 grey, markings mostly blackish, edged with white. Foreiving with a lunular mark at 

 the end of the cell, a discal series of short lunular marks curving slightly inwards below 

 the costa, the second and fourth from the lower end oblique ; a double row of sub- 

 terminal, short, linear marks and a marginal line. Hindwing with three sub-basal 

 black spots, a lunular mark at the end of the cell, a black spot on the costa beyond the 

 middle, a spot below it, followed by an irregular series of spots, the four centre ones in 

 an outward curve, the middle mark generally linear and always oblique, a sub-marginal 

 series of triangular black spots close to the margin, edged inwardly by a line of brown 

 lunules, on the inside of which there are many short whitish streaks and a terminal 

 black line. Cilia white, with blackish marks at the vein ends. Antennae black, 

 ringed with white ; head and body blackish above with some blue scalings, white 

 beneath. 



Female. Upperside, blackish-brown, with blue iridescence on the inner portions, 

 the costa and outer margin broadly dark, with indications of a series of pale sub-terminal 

 spots, more pronounced towards the hinder angle. Hindwing with the costal portion 

 broadly dark, the outer margin with a band composed of rather prominent sub-terminal, 

 triangular, black spots inwardly edged with white, followed by a series of obscure dark 

 spots with obscure whitish edgings ; terminal line black edged with a very fine whitish 

 line. Underside as in the male, with all the markings very large and prominent and 

 with white streaks on both wings between the discal and sub-marginal series 

 of spots. 



Expanse of wings, $ % l-f^ inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. 3c, $, 3d, ?, 3e, $, 3f, ?). 



Male and female like the Wet-season form, but the colour of the upperside paler 

 in both sexes, and on the underside both sexes have on the lower portion of the hind- 

 wing a brown nebulous patch, which varies in size in different examples. 



Expanse of wings, $ % \ inch. 



Larva. — Pale green, of the shade of the young leaves of the lime and pomolo bushes 

 on which it feeds, -^-^ of an inch in length, onisciform, head black, smooth and shining, 

 with a somewhat dark green dorsal line down the body, the whole surface very slightly 

 shagreened and covered with extremely fine and short downy hairs. The constrictions 



