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LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 
the apical area (in Inter-dry examples) sometimes faintly speckled with indistinct 
strigse ; a large black discocellular spot with white central dot, faint traces ol 
transverse discal dusky spots, ending in a blackish patch at the posterior angle. 
Hindwing with a small dusky discocellular spot, and sometimes faint traces of 
outwardly-disposed strigse. 
Female. Upperside pale yellowish-white. Forewing with the ochreous-red 
subapical fascia narrow and broadly broken at upper and middle median vein, its black 
inner border blacker than in the male and the basal costal margin broadly grey-black. 
Hindwitig with the marginal band also broad. Underside somewhat darker yellow 
than in the male, the strigse more distinct. Forewing with larger blackish discocellular 
spot, more defined transverse discal spots, and patch at posterior angle. Ilindwing 
with the discocellular spot slightly larger, and with slightly-defined transverse discal 
pale-centred spots, these latter sometimes being more distinct. 
Expanse, $ $ to 3f inches. 
Dry-season Brood (Plate 586, figs, lc, Id, $ $). 
Male. Upperside pale yellowish-white. Forewing with the black inner border 
of the ochreous-red subapical fascia narrower than in the male of the Wet-season form. 
Hindwing with the marginal band also much narrower. Underside brighter yellow. 
Forewing with the outwardly-disposed strigse more distinct, the discocellular spot 
and the transverse discal spots white-centred, the posterior patch also more developed, 
but the patch is smaller. Hindwing sparsely flecked throughout with delicate 
strigse; discocellular spot small and distinct; a transverse discal series of blackish 
spots, the upper four being large and white-centred. 
Female. Upperside pale yellowish-white. Forewing with the ochreous-red 
sub-apical fascia similar to that in the Wet-season form, its inner black border much 
narrower throughout. Hindwing with the marginal band somewhat narrower than it 
is in the male. Underside similar to the male. 
Expanse, $ $ 2| to 2^ inches. 
Extreme Dry-season Brood (Plate 586, figs, le, If, Ig, $ ?). 
Male. Upperside pale yellowish-white. Forewing with the inner border of the 
sub-apical fascia somewhat narrower than in the ordinary Dry-season form. Hindwing 
with the marginal band also somewhat narrower. Underside similar, except that the 
markings are less developed. 
Female. Upperside yellowish-white. Forewing with the ochreous-red subapical 
fascia entire, not being broken at the median vein, its inner black border much 
narrower throughout, the upper portion composed of an oblique straight bar, and the 
medial portion edged by a few black scales, the basal costal area narrower than in the 
