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LEPIBOPWBA INPICA. 
Bipsas melampus, Horsfielcl and Moore (nec Cramer), Cat, Lep. Mus, E.I.C. i. p. 32, pi. i, figs. 2, 
larva, 2a, pupa (1857). 
Beudorix melampus, Butler (nec Cramer), Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 181 (1869). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside scarlet-red, of a somewhat duller colour than melampus . 
Forewing with costal and outer marginal black borders, more even on the costa than in 
i melampus, the apex more broadly black, the band rapidly decreasing in width 
hindwards on the outer margin, median vein and its branches prominently black. 
Hindwing with the costal and abdominal areas brownish, outer marginal line black; 
anal lobe scarlet-red, lined outwardly with black ; tail black, tipped with white. Cilia 
of both wings black with pale tips, cilia of the anal lobe and the space to the tail white, 
tipped with black. Underside paler than in melampus , more grey, varying somewhat 
in tint in different examples, the two lines at the ends of the cells in both wings and 
the discal bands much as in melampus, but the discal band of the forewing is more even, 
and both are broader and more linear, the white edgings clearer and more prominent, 
the black anal spots are larger, there is a diffuse blackish spot in the interspace between 
the two prominent anal spots, there is usually some white suffusion on the abdominal 
margin above the black spot on the anal lobe, and the white anteciliary thread at the 
anal angle is more prominent. Antennae black, ringed with white; club with a red 
tip; frons pure white; head and body brown above, with red hairs, purplish-grey 
beneath. 
Female. Upperside ochreous-brown, with a slight purplish tint. Forewing with 
the costa broadly, the outer margin narrowly obscure brown. Hindwing with the costal 
space broadly brownish, a blackish-brown outer marginal line ; anal lobe black with a 
large scarlet-red spot in it, and a white spot above it on the abdominal margin. 
Underside as in the male. 
Expanse of wings, J $ lA- to ly^- inches. 
Larva, oehreous, considerably marked with black, ornamented with a sub-dorsal 
and a lateral series of tubercles bearing thick brushes of short black bristly hairs; the 
hairs conspicuous, all the segments of nearly equal width, the larva flattened, the 
constrictions between the segments not very prominent. 
Pupa, brownish-oehreous, sprinkled with black dots, smooth, naked, of the usual 
lycsenid shape, the head rounded, the thorax slightly humped in the middle, the 
abdomen ending in a sharp point. These descriptions are drawn up from Dr. Horsfield’s 
figures of the transformations of this species as exhibited in Java, and given in the 
Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. (de Niceville.) 
Habitat. —Siam, India, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Java. 
Distribution. —The type in the Banksian Cabinet in the B. M. came from Siam ; 
we have received examples of both sexes from the Khasia Hills, and have it also from 
Pangoon ; Moore records it from Mergui, Elwes from Bernardmvo, Watson from Chin 
