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of cell, sometimes showing on the upperside, sometimes forming an 
almost complete band across the wing; hind wing with a pink spot 
on the costa, sometimes forming a complete band by being con- 
nected with the white spots beyond the cell and the pink streak at 
anal angle; the marginal spots more or less complete,as on upperside. 
2 with the fore wing broader; the hind wing scarcely or not 
at all shot with blue; the crimson spot on the costa of each wing 
below sometimes absent. 
In the forms maculata, lidderdali, and diphilea the hind wing 
is quadrate and not produced into a tail at veins 6 and 7, the 
white spots on the hind wing being small in the Ist, large in 
the 2nd, and long streaks in the 3rd. In caudata the hind 
wing is produced into a tail at veins 6 and 7, and in all the 
above forms the crimson spots along outer margin are small. In 
Fig. 55.—LEpicopia polydora, 3. %. 
the forms philowenewa, polydora, and excisa the hind wing is pro- 
duced into a tail and the crimson spots form four ring-spots, those 
towards anal angle being sometimes the largest, sometimes the 
smallest ; in the Ist the excisions between anal angle and tail are 
slight, more developed in the 2nd, and four in number and deep 
in the 3rd, but all the forms grade into each other. 
Larva covered with scales of white waxy efflorescence excreted 
from the cuticle and often one inch in length; when full fed it 
descends from its food-plant by a silken thread and spins a slight 
cocoon. 
Hab. Mussooree ; Sikhim; Bhutan; Khasis; Nagas. Ewp., 3 
112-120, 9 114 millim. 
3018. Epicopia philenora, Westw. Arc. Ent. i, p. 19, pl. 5, fig. 2; 
_C.§ 8S. no. 356. 
Epicopeia varunea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 799; C. & S. no. 359, 
Differs from polydora in the hind wing being without the white 
band and spots on upper and under sides; the crimson spots 
