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LKPID OPTERA INBIG A, 
band much less prominent, its apical and lower portions being more or less speckled 
with white scales, and its inner portion (in extreme dry specimens narrower, cts in our 
figure f) ; the subapical white spots less defined, and the upper three more or 
less elongated; basal area also less grey-scaled. Findwing with the marginal 
dentate spots much less defined, these being speckled and narrow, showing only at 
the end of the upper veinlets or are obsolescent, and in extreme dry specimens (fig. f.) 
absent. Underside. Forewing with the subapical band much less defined, narrower, 
the basal portion more or less obsolescent, and in extreme dry specimens (our fig. Ig) 
obsolete, the apical area and hindwing paler yellow tinted. 
Female. Upperside. Fore/wing with the outer band somewhat narrower than 
in 7 vet form, and less intensely black, five subapical white spots being present; the 
basal grey area also narrower. Findwing with narrower marginal black dentated 
band. Underside. Forewing similar to the wet form, except that the black band is 
much narrower and less black. Fd/ndwi/ng very faintly tinged with pale yellow 
throughout. 
Expanse, c? 2fi 0 to 2^, ? 2 x - 0 inches. 
FIabttat.—S outh India. 
Distribution. —This species is confined to South India. The type specimens 
were obtained by the late Mr. S. N. Ward at Kunur, Nilgiris. Mr. G. F. Hampson 
records it from the Nilgiris (J. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, 362). Messrs. Davidson and 
Aitken obtained “ a few specimens, chiefly in the Southern parts of the Kanara 
District 55 (J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1896, 574). 
Of our illustrations on Plate 552, fig. 1, la, b, c, are from a male and female of 
the Wet-season form, Id, e, from a male, and h, i, from a female of the Dry form ; 
fig. If, g, from a male of the extreme dry form from S. India, this latter specimen 
being erroneously figured in Lep. Ceylon i. pi. 50, fig. 3, as the male of Neombo. 
CATOPHAGA ADAMSONI. 
Plate 551, fig, 2, 2a g, 2b, c ? ( Wet-season Brood) ; 2d, e g (Extreme d.y Brood). 
Wet-season Brood (Plate 551, lag. 2, 2a ^, 2b, c $ ). 
Male. Upperside similar to the S. Indian 0 . Wardii. Forewing comparatively 
more obtuse at the apex than in the male of that species, the apical band somewhat 
narrower posteriorly, its anterior inner portion also narrower, and its inner costal 
portion paler grey-scaled, the four subapical white spots more imvardly positioned ; 
basal area also less broadly grey-scaled. Find wing with the outer marginal row of 
black, disconnected, well-formed dentate spots. 
Underside. Similar to wet form of G. Wardii , except that, on the fore wing, the 
subapical black band is incomplete and ill-defined. 
