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LEPID OP TEE A INDICA. 
cinereous-brown outer margins. Forewing more or less angular at the apex, and 
darker brown before the exterior margin ; with a very large median, black, white 
pupilled ocellus with yellow outer ring, which sometimes has a minute upper, and 
in some specimens both an upper and a lower, minute ocellule attached to it, and 
enclosed within the yellow ring; a minute subapical ocellus also sometimes present; 
transverse discal line distinct. Hindwing with, or without, a single very minute sub- 
anal white dot in the male, and two in the female. Underside either pale brownish- 
testaceous or various shades of cinereous-ochreous, greyish-brown, with a more 
or less distinct dark brown slender subbasal line and a discal transverse line, both 
being rarely slightly denticulated, also, sometimes the discal line is even and slightly 
pale bordered, or again, is dark brown and forming a suffused darker fascia. Fore¬ 
wing with two or four, indistinct very minute white-pupilled blackish spots, the 
lowest sometimes more prominent and larger. Hindwing with a series of seven 
white-pupilled spots, of which the third, and sometimes the three from the anal 
angle are larger and blind or more fully developed, the others very minute; beyond 
is a submarginal row of indistinct blackish minute slender denticules, or marginal 
lines. In some of the specimens of both sexes of this brood reared by Mr. de 
Niceville in Calcutta, the ocelli on underside of both wings are more or less fully 
developed, though of course small. Male with an elongate yellow glandular patch 
of scales on the submedian vein on the underside of the forewing, and on the upper- 
side of the hindwing a similar ochreous coloured patch overlapped by a subbasal tuft 
of yellow radiating hairs. 
Expanse, cflf, ? 2f inches. 
Habitat. —North-Eastern, Central, and Southern India ; Burma. 
Egg. —“Almost white, semitransparent; laid singly or in batches on both sides 
of blades of grass. 5 ’ 
Young Catebpillab.— ec Pale green ; head black, bearing two very obtuse black 
horns on the crown, and with the caudal processes very small/ 5 
Adult Catekpillab. —“ After last moult pale reddish, finely mottled with greenish 
ochreous and other colours. When full-grown about 1J inch long, fusiform; 
anal segment with two short divergent processes; dorsal line very pale greenish; 
with lateral oblique obscure darkish stripes ; head blackish, armed with two divergent 
blunt conical reddish horns; both head and horns thickly set with small rough 
tubercles ; the face covered with short hairs ; the whole body rough or rugose and 
very thickly set with minute tubercles; legs and underside of body coloured like 
the upper surface. 55 
Chbysalis. —Suspended by tail. “ Semitransparent green ; smooth ; thorax very 
convex and constricted at base of the abdomen ; spiracles black. 55 (L. de Niceville.) 
Both sexes of the dry-season brood of this species differ from those of the dry- 
