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LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 
Debis embolima, Butler, Ent. Monthly Mag. iii. p. 77 (1866), $ ; id. Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 115 
(1868). 
Lethe Todara , Moore, Trans. Ent. Soe. Bond. 1881, p, 305. Marshall and de N’iceville, Butt, of India, 
etc. i. p. 151 (1883). Hampson, J. A. S. Beng. 1888, p. 348. 
Imago.— Male. Upperside dark olivescent ochreous-brown, glossy; marginal 
lines darker brown ; cilia brownish-ockreous. Forewing without markings, except a 
faint trace of a pale apical spot, and of the blackish ocelli of the underside. Hind¬ 
wing with three or four submarginal very indistinct small black spots. Underside 
dark brown, suffused with a more or less vinaceous tint; both wings with a trans¬ 
verse subbasal wavy purplish-grey bordered dark duplex line. Foreiving with a dark 
brown oblique transverse discal purplish-bordered band, which is angulated at end 
of the cell and below the lower median veinlet; followed by a submarginal curved 
row of five small purple-bordered ocelli, the upper one being ill-defined, and a 
marginal narrow dark brown pale-bordered line. Hindwing with a transverse discal 
medially-angulated purple-bordered dark brown line; a submarginal row of six 
purple-grey bordered ocelli, the upper one and the fifth only being regularly formed, 
with a black centre, white pupil and ochreous outer ring, the others are longitudinally 
oval and numerously white-speckled, the sixth being duplex ; marginal line distinct 
and purple-grey bordered. 
Female. Upperside paler olivaceous ochreous-brown, externally dusky-brown. 
Foreiving with an oblique transverse discal ochreous-white irregular band broken by 
the upper and middle median veinlets, and extending only to the lower median vein- 
let ; two small subapical oclireous-white spots, and three submarginal small indistinct 
black spots. Hindwing with four upper submarginal ockreous-yellow bordered black 
spots, the upper second spot being large, quadrate, and extending to the pale- 
bordered marginal line, the third and fourth smaller and black, the upper first and 
the two lowest being the ocelli of the underside more or less indistinctly indicated. 
Underside paler, markings as in the male, except that on the fore wing the oblique 
discal band is purplish-white, the lower submarginal ocellus sometimes absent, or 
present only as a minute brown dot; and the ocelli on both wings are more pro¬ 
minent and bordered with purplish-white. Body beneath, legs and palpi at the sides 
brownish ochreous. 
Expanse, 2\ to 2f inches. 
Adult Caterpillar. —Fusiform ; head conical, the vertex pointed and projected 
forward, anal segment acutely pointed and projected hindward. Colour pale green 
with paler transverse lines on each segment, a lateral and a sublateral pale-bordered 
reddish stripe extending the whole length, including the head and anal segment. 
Feeds on bamboo. 
