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LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 
to the submedian vein; two prominent ochreous-yellow subapical spots, and four or 
five, small, very indistinct blackish submarginal spots. Hindwing with a submarginal 
series of five well-defined ochreous-yellow bordered black oval spots, and a sixth or 
anal very slightly visible smaller spot; marginal line anteriorly bordered with 
ochreous-yellow. Underside of the same colour as in the male, markings the same, 
but more prominent, and except that on the forewing the oblique discal ochreous- 
yellow band is much broader, and paler. Body dark, paler beneath; palpi at the 
sides and fore-legs beneath greyish white; middle and hind-legs ochreous-brown, 
hind femora in female greyish-white beneath. 
Expanse, g 2^, 5 inches. 
Habitat.— Ceylon. 
Distribution and Habits. —According to Capt. Hutchison (Lep. Ceylon, i. 18), 
“ found all the year round, but most plentiful in the spring on the hills of the Central 
Province, at about 5000 to 6000 feet elevation, in grass land or close to forests. 
Rather shy; flight rapid, often settling down in grass or on open road.” Mr. F. 
M. Mackwood notes that it is “ plentiful in roadways through jungle about 4000 
feet and over.” Mr. E. Ernest Green obtained it at Pundaloya in August. 
LETHE EOHEIA (Plate 84, figs. 2, 2a, lb, c, ? ). 
Papilio Molina , Fabricius, Mant, Ins. ii. p. 45 (1787); Ent. Syst. iii. p. 75 (1793). 
Safyrus Bolivia , Goclart, Encye. Meth. ix. p. 479 (1819). 
Debis Bolivia , Westwood, in Doubleday and Hewits. Gen. D. Lep. p. 360 (1851). Moore, Catal. Lep. 
Mus. E. I. Compy. i. p. 217 (1857). 
Lethe Bolivia , Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 116 (1868); Catal. Fabrieian Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 29 
(1869). Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 156 (1883). Elwes, Trans. Ent. 
Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 309. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside dusky-brown, in fresh specimens violescent tinted, 
but with age fading to an olivescent tint; marginal lines blackish ; cilia alternated 
with white. Forewing crossed by a prominent violescent-white oblique discal band, 
and two less prominent oblique subapical small spots, the upper one being cut by 
the subcostal veinlets. Hindiving with very faint traces of the pale-bordered black 
ocelli of the underside visible ; marginal lines ochreous-bordered. Underside more 
or less dark brown, with either a violescent or olivescent-castaneous tint; marginal 
blackish lines distinct, the outer line bordered with ochreous and the inner line with 
more or less vivid bluish-grey. Forewing with a prominent transverse subbasal 
more or less vivid bluish-grey nearly straight line; the oblique discal violescent 
white band as on the upperside ; a narrow bluish-grey costal spot, below which are 
three decreasing ochreous-ringed ocelli, the lowest ill-defined, or sometimes absent, 
all encompassed by a bluish-grey narrow line continued on each side from the costal 
