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LEFIDOPTEUA INBICA. 
Underside also similar, the strigge generally more distinct, the discocellular spot 
more prominent and white. Normal tuft, and glandular patch, similar. 
Female. Upperside. Forewing with the outer band comparatively narrower 
thaii in female of Wet form, the subapical confluent lunules anteriorly restricted and 
less defined, the discocellular spot similar. Hindwing with a more or less slightly - 
apparent dentate dot at tip of the veins. Underside brighter yellow-tinted, and the 
strigse more apparent. Both wings with the discocellular spot more distinctly 
defined, that on the hindwing always accompanied by a similar upper spot, and a 
small nacreous-centred ringlet within the upper end of the cell; a very slightly 
apparent upper subapical transverse series of pale reddish dentate lunules on 
forewing, and a curved discal series of similar lunules on the hind wing . Antennae 
as in Wet form. 
Expanse, S 2^ 0 , ? 2 1 - 0 inches. 
Extreme Dry form (figs, e, f, g, <$ ?). Larger than ordinary Dry form. Male. 
Upperside either bluish-white or olivescent-white. Forewing with a narrow black 
apical marginal band, which is macular from below the apex; the discocellular 
spot more or less slender. Underside pale olivescent-yellow, the strigse more 
distinct than in ordinary Dry form, and the discocellular spot more prominent; a 
subapical lunular fascia on forewing , and a discal fascia on hindwing more or less 
slightly apparent. 
Female. Upperside olivescent-wliite, and tinted outwardly with pale, olivescent - 
yellow. Forewing with the marginal band broader, and more dentate than in male, 
or macular from below the apex ; discocellular spot larger than in ordinary Dry 
female. LTnderside. Both wings brighter olivescent-yellow than in male, the 
strigse more apparent; the extreme marginal edge of wings red-tinted, Foreiving 
with a prominent large single or duplex-reddish-centred discocellular spot, and 
distinct reddish upper discal dentate-lunular fascia. Hindwing with two (sometimes 
one only) prominent discocellular dark-red bordered nacreous centred spots, and a 
much larger similar spot within upper end of the cell, the discal series of dentate 
lunules also distinct. 
Expanse, c? 2f 0 to 2^ 0 , 9 l fo to 2^ 0 inches. 
Habitat. —Western, Central, Eastern Himalayas ; Upper and Lower Continental 
India ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Tenasserim; Siam; Annam ; Malay Peninsula; Sumatra; 
Java ; Borneo ; Formosa; Hainan. 
Life History.—“ Fgg. § line long ; fusiform ; attached to the leaf, on which 
larva feeds, by one end. Colour clear glossy-white. Solitary as regards position, 
several, however, under one leaf of Cassia . 
Larva .—When hatched 1-J line long. Colour deep rich glossy-green; lateral 
line yellowish-white. bordered above by a black dotted line. The whole of the back 
