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LEPIDOPTEE A INDICA. 
lower margin, is sinuous and has one or two curves in it; in some examples there are 
two or three obscure pale sub-apical streaks within the band, but usually it is without 
markings. Hindwing with some grey irrorations on the basal half, a large round 
orange spot at the end of the cell, and a black immaculate band on the exterior border, 
moderately broad in its middle, sinuous in its inner margin, narrowing rapidly both 
upwards and hindwards, never reaching the anal angle ; costal space whitish, cilia of 
both wings white with orange tips. Underside much darker yellow, the hindwing 
darker than the forewing. Forewing with a large black white-centred oval spot at the 
end of the cell, a discal row of five brown spots running evenly with the margin, two 
small brown spots on the costa above them. Hindwing with slight greenish-grey 
irrorations on the inner portion, a large round, white shining spot with a smail one 
close above it, at the end of the cell, both encircled with two red-brown rings, between 
which the colour is pale red-brown, a brown mark in the middle of the costa and a 
discal row of red-brown dots, one in each interspace, running evenly with the outer 
margin, cilia of both wings orange-red. Antennse, head and front of thorax in both 
sexes salmon-pink, the rest of the thorax and abdomen greenish-black, with some white 
hairs on the former, beneath they are pale yellow, legs pinkish. 
Female. Upperside coloured as in the male, but always paler. Forewing with the 
exterior black band similar in shape, but usually broader, and always with five or six 
largish spots of various sizes in the middle of the band, four or five sub-apical, the two 
lowest the largest, a large one a little below the middle and a small one close below it. 
Hindwing with the orange cell spot larger, the outer band composed of large black 
spots in the interspaces, joined together and widened at the apex with a yellow spot in 
it and continued up to the beginning of the costal pale space. Underside as in the 
male. 
Expanse, $ $ 2 T ^ to 2 T % inches. 
Dry-season Brood (Figs. Id, le, $). 
Male and female paler than in the Wet-season form, some of the females almost 
whitish, the markings similarly disposed, but the bands very narrow in both sexes, and 
some of the spots on the exterior border of the female above are often obsolescent; in 
the outer border of the fore wing of the male above there are frequently several pale 
diffuse streaks. 
Expanse, $ U lyA lyo - inches. 
Habitat. —Afghanistan, Beloochistan and the Himalayas. 
Distribution. —We took it in great numbers in Kandahar and Quetta, and it is in 
our collection from Cashmir, Kulu Murree and Campbellpur (Yerbury); Doherty reports 
it from Kunawur and Kami Tal, Moore from Yarkand, Mackinnon and de Niceville 
from Mussuri, and Leslie and Evans from Chitral; Moore’s type of Lativitta came 
