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3. Upperside purplish brown, the basal four-fifths of both 

 fore and hind wing suffused with dark indigo-blue. Fore wing 

 with two obliquely-placed preapical pale ochraceous-white spots, 

 and a series of four or five subterminal similar spots. Hind wing 

 uniform except for the dark secondary sex-mark on the disc. 

 Underside ochraceous shaded with brown, darkest on the outer 

 half of the hind wing ; a broad dark brown discal band across 

 both wings from costa of fore to tornus of hind wing ; beyond 

 this a lighter ochraceous band, followed on the hind wing by 

 obscure ocelli in interspaces 2 and 6, and a purplish-white diffuse 

 mark at the tornus. — 2 • Upperside paler purplish brown, the 

 terminal margins of the wings narrowly and evenly yellow ; a 

 broad yellow oblique preapical bar on the fore wing, curving down- 

 wards and ending in two or three triangular detached spots, two 

 discal spots below middle of bar and an outer series of three sub- 

 terminal large lunular spots. Hind wing on its anterior half 

 outwardly with some diffuse yellow obscure spots. Underside 

 similar to that of the S , but much lighter and brighter ochra- 

 ceous, the brown shading forms obscure transverse bands, of 

 which the discal, broad postdiscal and subterminal crossing both 

 fore and hind wing are the most prominent ; an additional ocellus 

 in interspace 3. Antenna? ochraceous ; head, thorax and abdo- 

 men above brown, beneath more or less ochraceous. 



Exp. S 2 ^5-99 mm. (3-75-3-9"). 



Hob. Sikhim, the lower and Eastern provinces of Bengal; Assam; 

 Burma ; Tenasserim, extending to the Malay Peninsula. 



Larva (adult). Anal segment with two slender processes ; each 

 segment with dorsal and lateral tubercles studded with tufts of 

 hair ; head black ; body brown with paler longitudinal dorsal and 

 lateral bands, a short black line on each side of the dorsal line 

 anteriorly on each segment ; legs with a spot of dark red on each. 



Pupa. " Boat-shaped, broad across the middle ; head-piece 

 prolonged and acuminated into a bifid point; colour pale purpu- 

 rescent-brown." (Moore.) 



235. Discophora lepida, Moore. (Enispe), Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i, 

 1857, p. 213 2 5 id. Lep. Ceyl i, 1880, p. 36, pi. 18, tigs. 1, 1 a, 

 1 b, S 2 ; M - $ de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 297 ; Moore, Lep. 

 Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 190, pi. 151, figs. 1, 1 a, 1 b, 1 c, rf $ ; 

 Davidson, Bell 8f Aitken, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x, 1896, p. 245. 



<5 2 • Resembles D. celinde, but in the c? the ground-colour on 

 the upperside is dark velvety brown without any blue reflections ; 

 the fore wing is crossed preapically by three obliquely-placed, 

 comparatively large, pale-blue spots with an ill -defined series 

 of three or four much smaller subterminal spots ; in the 2 

 the markings, though similar to those in the 2 °f celinde, are on 

 the upperside of the fore wing all pale blue, not yellow, and more 

 numerous, larger, and better defined on the upperside of the hind 

 wing. Underside. <$ : similar to that in <S of D. celinde, but a 



