38 LEPinOPTEBA INDICA. 



formed hj their white edges. Forewing with a spot at the end of the cell, a discal 

 row of six spots, the second from the lower end sometimes, but not always, a little 

 inwards, the uppermost spot always so ; a suVj-terminal double row of short linear 

 marks joined together, the inner row the heavier. Hindwing with four sub-basal black 

 spots edged with white, decreasing in size hindwards, the lowest placed a little inwards 

 on the abdominal margin, in some examples the lowest two spots are more or less 

 obsolete, a mark at the end of the cell, a discal whorl of spots, the second and third 

 from the upper end placed a little outside the others ; a sub-terminal double row of 

 conjoined lunular marks effaced near the anal angle by an orange patch, which forms 

 the caps to two large black sub-anal spots, the inner one the larger, with sometimes 

 one and sometimes two small black dots, one on each side of the spot nearest the anal 

 angle ; marginal line on both wings brown. Cilia brown, containing a darker brown 

 line. Antennae black ringed with white ; head and body brown above with bluish 

 hairs, beneath whitish. 



Female. Upperside. Forewing with broad costal and outer marginal borders, 

 the inner portion blue like the male, but paler, marginal line black. Hindwing with 

 the costa broadly pale blackish-brown, the outer marginal band narrowly so, some white 

 spear-shaped marks on its inner side, the inner portion of the wing dull blue with some 

 basal blue iridescence, a series of sub-terminal black spots capped with white inwardly 

 and lined with white outwardly, the first and often the second also capped with orange, 

 the second always the largest and the others decreasing in size upwards. Underside 

 as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ % '^xo inches. 



Dry-season Brood (= bengalia) (Figs. Ic, $, Id, $). 



Male and Female like the other form, but generally paler and often duller in colour, 

 sub-terminal spots on the hindwing less clearly defined, and in the female the blue 

 iridescence is more extensive ; on the underside the ground colour is generally darker, 

 the markings not so well defined on the hindwing, the discocellular and discal bands 

 sometimes coalesce and form an ill-defined difi'use medial cloud on the wing ; but this is 

 by no means always the case, many specimens being without it. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1 to I^'q- inches. 



Larva. — Onisciform greenish or violet-brown above, with a dorsal darker brown 

 line and white spots, and a yellow lateral line (Moore). Feeds on Ci/cadacese (Thwaites). 

 When full grown a little over half an inch in length, of two distinct colours, some being 

 bright green, others of a dark reddish-purple (vinous). They are of the usual Lycsenid 

 shape ; the head very small, black, shining, and hidden beneath the second segment, 

 the third segment larger than the second, the other segments of about equal size, the 

 anal segment flattened and rounded, divisions between the segments well marked. 



