96 LEFIDOPTEBA INBICA. 



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



Imago. — Male. Uppersicle dark copper-red, sparsely irrorated with minute black 

 atoms, markings black. Forewing with a spot inside the cell, a larger one at the end, 

 the discal series formed of three slightly elongated spots in an outward curve from near 

 the costa to the fourth interspace, followed by four longitudinal bars, varying in length, 

 one in each of interspaces 3 and 2 and two in interspace 1, costal line blackish, a 

 blackish outer marginal band, and some blackish suffusion on the hinder margin and at 

 the base of the wing. liindwing with a suffused blackish costal and outer marginal 

 band, the abdominal area being also broadly suffused with blackish-l^rown, a lunular 

 mark at the end of the cell and a discal series of five spots, two in interspaces 5 and 4, 

 and three a little inwards, in the three lower interspaces ; the base of the wing also 

 suffused with blackish atoms. Underside bluish-green. Forewing with the lower part 

 of the wing suffused with orange, a black dot in the cell, a lunule at the end, and a 

 discal series of six small black spots, varying in size in different examples, also some 

 T)lack linear sub-terminal marks divided by the veins on the lower half of the wing. 

 liindwing with greenish reflections at the base, the wing generally without any 

 markings, sometimes with a discal series of minute black spots, the wing evenly 

 rounded. Cilia greyish-white, blackish at the base. Antennas black, ringed with white ; 

 top of head with a small white space, between the bases of the antennae ; palpi black 

 above, white beneath, with black, stiff hairs, eyes ringed with white, body blackish 

 above with grey hairs, white beneath. 



Female. Ujjperside. Forewing darker and duller in colour, the basal third 

 thickly suffused with brown, the terminal band deeper and darker, the spots as in the 

 male, but the lower discal spots only slightly elongated. Hindwing entirely suffused 

 with blackish-brown, obscuring the marginal band, the discoidal and discal spots only 

 faintly visible. Underside. Forewing bright orange, marginal band blue-green, the 

 base suffused with the same colour, markings as in the male, but larger, an additional 

 black small spot inside the cell near the base. Hindwing bluish-green as in the male, 

 the discal dot usually visible. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? ly^-g- to If^ inches. 



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



Both sexes marked above and below like the Wet-season brood, but the ground 

 colour on the upperside is much paler, and in the male is of a much brighter coppery- 

 red, and the discal bars of the forewing are reduced to two pairs of small spots. 



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



Habitat. — Western Himalayas. 



Distribution. — Recorded by Mackinnon and de Kiceville from Mussuri, by Leslie 



