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LEPIDOTTERA INDIRA. 
Female. Up per side ochreous-brown; exterior margins cinereous-brown. 
Forewing less acute at tire apex tlian G. Perseus ; the ocellus generally with the 
quadrate yellowish bordering area. Hindiving with, or without, a very small black¬ 
ish ocellule between the lower medians. Underside rufescent-brown, speckled with 
darker brown ; basal area very slightly darker; the transverse lines more or less 
defined; the ocelli small or indicated only by minute black spots with white pupils, 
the three lowest on the hindwing being then generally the most prominent. Body 
beneath, legs, and sides of palpi pale ochreous or greyish-brown. 
Expanse, <?!-§ to If; ? If to 2f inches. 
Habitat. —Eastern, Central, and Southern India ; Ceylon. 
Individuals of the dry-season brood of G. Polydecta are distinguishable from 
those of the dry-season brood of C. Perseus by the large pale-bordered ocellus on 
the upperside of the forewing, and in the hindwings of both sexes having a scalloped 
exterior margin, which latter is very prominent in most of the females. 
Specimens of the dry-season brood of this species, collected by Mr. E. E. 
Green at Pundaloya in the West-Central division of Ceylon, are, in both sexes, darker 
coloured on the underside than the Continental Indian examples, and have a pale 
more or less ochreous fascia to the transverse discal line; in one of the males there 
are four small ocelli on one side and five on the other forewing, and those on the 
hind wing are also more developed than in ordinary specimens of this brood. Other 
similar males and females in Mr. J. Jenner Weir’s collection from the same locality, 
Pundaloya, have each five very small ocelli in a linear sequence all on the underside 
of the forewing. All the males have a short Uacldsh glandular patch on both fore and 
hindwing, and are the same as that figured by Mr. de Niceville (Trans. Ent. Soc. 
Lond. 1884, pi. 3, f. 2) as representing the male of G, Polydecta, 
Historical Note. —Cramer’s figures of Polydecta (Pap. Exot. 11, pi. 144, f. e, 
f) represent a female (which has evidently been over-coloured by his artist), and 
is doubtless that of a specimen of an early dry-season or so-called unocellated brood, 
in which the ocelli on the underside of both wings are much reduced in size, or are 
undeveloped, and disposed in a more linear sequence. Polydecta is an undoubted 
Calysisme, and not a Samanta, as stated by Mr. de Niceville in his paper on this 
species in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1884, p. 88. Cramer’s figure shows four small 
ocelli on the underside of the forewing, the lower two of which are correctly dis¬ 
posed between the median branches and the upper two between the upper median and 
upper radial. In Mr. de Niceville’s representation of this figure in the paper above 
mentioned (Plate 3, fig. 1) and there given as a true copy of Cramer’s figure, the details 
of the veining and positions of the ocelli on the underside of the forewing has been in¬ 
correctly copied by his artist, as may easily be seen by reference to Cramer’s original 
figure. In Mr. de Niceville’s copy (Plate 3, fig. 1) the lower ocellus on the forewing 
is represented as being situated between the submedian vein and lower median branch, 
