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LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 
Habitat. —Nikobar Islands. 
Distribution.— Felder’s type, female, which we figure through the kindness of the 
Hon. Walter Kothschild, came from Kondul; Doherty captured a male in Ikuya, Little 
Nikobar, 
CASTALIUS ELNA. 
Plate 632, figs. 2, $, 2a, 5 , 2b, (Wet-season Brood), 2c, $, 2d, $ , 2e, 5 (Dry-season Brood). 
Lycsena elna, Hewitson, Ex. Butt. v. (Lycsena), pi. 1, fig. 8, $ (1876). 
Castalius elna, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 587. Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. 
Bengal, 1881, p. 248. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 217, pi. 20, fig. 4 (1884). de Niceville, 
Butt. o£ India, iii. p. 201 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 628. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. 
Soc. 1893, p. 299. Bingham, Eauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 430 (wood-cut, p. 429) (1907). 
Wet-season Brood (Figs. 2, 2a, $, 2b, $). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside black ; a broad, oblique, white band across both wings. 
Forewing with this band slightly produced both outwards and inwards at its commence¬ 
ment in the upper disc and broadens hindward. Hindwing with a continuation of 
this band of fairly equal breadth. Underside white. Forewing with a broad black 
band from the lower base to the middle third of the wing, where it is sharply angled on 
to the costa ; a large black spot on the costa between it and the apex ; a large black 
spot below it near the hinder angle, a marginal thin band with a spot inside its middle 
and sometimes attached to it, but this band is inconstant, and is often broken and 
irregular, and sometimes almost obliterated. Hindwing with a continuation at its base 
of the basal band of the forewing, a discal band of what appears to be a number of 
large spots joined together, a marginal narrow band of triangular spots ; tails black, 
with white tips. Antennae black, speckled with white; head and body black above; 
palpi and body beneath with a medial white line ; sides of abdomen barred with 
white. 
Female, like the male above and below. 
Expanse of wings, £ £ 1-j^r inches. 
Dry-season Brood (Figs. 2c, <£, 2d, $, 2e, $). 
Male and female only differ on the upperside in the breadth of the white, oblique 
band, which in this form is very much broader throughout, on the underside the costal 
and outer marginal spaces are suffused with pale chocolate colour, and the discal and 
outer marginal bands of the hindwing are almost obliterated. 
Expanse of wings, $ $ 1-^ inches. 
Habitat. —Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Burma, South Andamans, extending to the 
Malayan sub-region. 
