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LEPIDOPTEIIA INDICA. 
Myrina megistia (?), Butler (nec Hewitson), Trans. Linn, Soc. ZooL Lond, 1877, p. 549. 
liapala damona , Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1890, p. 450. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside bright fulvous-red. Forewing with broad black 
marginal borders, the black band on the costa fills up the basal two-thirds of the cell, 
its inner margin is uneven all round, the band is narrowest on the outer margin and 
is as broad on the hinder margin as it is on the costa, broadest at the hinder angle 
and at the apex, the fulvous-red spaces inside the wing, however, vary somewhat in 
extent in different examples. Hindwing with the costal space, the entire cell space, 
the abdominal area and abdominal fold black, the rest of the wing fulvous-red, the 
veins finely black, anal lobe black with an ochreous spot in it, and a white fringe, 
tipped with black; outer marginal line black; tail black, tipped with white. Cilia of 
both wings orange-grey. Underside dark ochreous-grey, in some examples varying to 
pale ochreous-brown, a pale ochreous-white line, edged on both sides with brown at the 
end of the cell, a discal, slightly outwardly curved, fine brown line, with pale outer 
edges, an indistinct sub-marginal pale brown line, well separated from the margin. 
Hmdwing with cell streak and discal line as in the forewing, the latter somewhat 
sinuous and curving inwards at its lower end in two angles to the abdominal margin, 
with the white outside edging rather prominent in the curve; anal lobe black, with a 
white spot on it, and a black line from it running up the abdominal margin for a 
short distance, a black spot in the first interspace, a blackish spot between them, 
both capped with orange; both wings with terminal brown line, black towards the 
anal angle, with an inner white thread. Antennae black, ringed with white, club 
tipped with red; frons ochreous-white; head and body blackish above, ochreous-grey 
beneath. 
Female. Upperside brown, with a slight pinkish-purple tint, the ground colour 
darkening towards the margins; anal lobe black, wdth a white spot above it on the 
abdominal margin. Cilia of both wings greyish-brown, white with black tips on the 
lower part of the hindwing. Underside of a purer ochreous-grey colour, far more 
ochreous than in the male, markings similar. 
Expanse of wings, £ 1 T %-, ? lyb to l T y inches. 
Larva, varies at different periods in colour from yellow with a greenish cast to 
dark ferruginous-brown, and at one period the lateral bands are very obscure; feeds on 
Schimedelia racemosa ; head rather large, segments increasing in size from the second 
to the fifth, thence to anal segment cf equal size, with a sub-dorsal and lateral row of 
short tubercles bearing clumps of short closely-set bristly hairs ; the body just above 
the legs fringed with hairs ; there is a narrow black dorsal line, the segments blotched 
with black, a sub-dorsal reddish band. 
Pupa very rounded, the head and anal segments bluntly pointed, brown, sprinkled 
with darker brown and reddish marks. Description drawn up from the figures in Cat. 
