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LEPIDOPTEBA INDIG A. 
PATALA BHIMA (Plate 94, figs. 5, 5a, ? ). 
Neope Bhima, Marshall, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1880, p. 246. Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, 
of India, etc. i. p. 172, pi. xi. fig. 26, ? (1883). Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1890, p. 518. 
Neope Muirheadi, var. Bhima, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 266. 
Imago.™ Male. Upperside pale olivescent ochreous-brown ; marginal line indis¬ 
tinctly pale bordered ; cilia pale ochreous-white. Forewing with a broad transverse 
discal indistinctly-defined darker glandular fascia clothed with a few long narrow 
scales with acute bidentate or tridentate tips, and very numerously interspersed long 
slender androconia with lengthened truncated-base and fine hair-like tasselled-tip, 
and also a few fine hairs ; beyond which is an outer discal series of pale olivescent- 
yellow elongated spots situated between the veins, the one between the radials and 
also that between the upper medians enclosing an oval black spot. Hindwing with 
a series of four prominent black oval spots, with a pale olivescent-yellow outer ring, 
above which is a subapical small incipient similar spot, and at the anal angle an 
indistinct duplex spot. Underside ochreous-grey speckled with brownish-ochreous 
scales. Forewing with three sinuous brown bars crossing the cell, the basal one 
being narrow, the next broad and catenulate, the outer one broad and zigzag; cross¬ 
ing the discocellulars are two small brown spots; beyond is a broad transverse 
discal brown band, which is traversed by a very slender sinuous inner pale line, its 
outer edge being recurved and broadly bordered by pale ochreous-grey ; following 
is a series of four prominent ocelli, each with large black centre and white pupil, an 
ochreous-yellow ring, and then a brown bordering extending laterally to the costa, 
beyond which is a brown submarginal and marginal line with pale ochreous-grey 
borders. Hindwing with a basal transverse series of three small brown rings, two 
subbasal pale-bordered brown zigzag interrupted bands, and a similar recurved 
discal continuous band, the latter with a prominent pale ochreous-grey outer border, 
followed by a recurved series of eight prominent ocelli, the seventh and eighth being 
conjoined but both well developed, each with a black centre and white pupil, an 
ochreous-yellow ring and an outer dark-brown ring, all again outwardly bordered by 
brown speckles ; marginal lines dark-brown, sinuous. Body beneath pale ochreous- 
grey ; legs above brown, ochreous-grey beneath ; collar and sides of palpi ochreous- 
white ; antennse brown with blackish subterminal band and reddish-ochreous tip. 
Female. Upperside pale olivescent ochreous-brown. Forewing with an ill- 
defined narrow pale brownish-ochreous transverse discal recurved fascia, an outer 
discal row of four, sometimes with five, prominent black oval spots, the upper 
one being situated between the radials, the lowest, when present, between the 
lower median and submedian vein, the upper second generally small and imper¬ 
fectly developed, the upper first, the third and fourth large and of nearly equal size; 
