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LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 
Pupa short and stout, the thoracic and abdominal portions being about the same 
height. Its colour varies with its situation, but is generally a brownish-white, much 
mottled w T ith darker brown, and with a darker band along the thorax, extending along 
the centre of the abdomen. It is smooth, and not covered with hair (Davidson, Bell 
and Aitken). 
Habitat. — India, Burma, Andamans, Ceylon, Malayana, Java. 
Distribution. —Hampson records it from the Nilgiris, Elwes from the Naga and 
Karen Hills, Betham from Pachmari, Central Provinces, Davidson from Karwar, 
Watson from the Chin Hills, Mackinnon from Mussuri, Aitken from Matheran ; we 
have it also from Sikkim, Kulu, Andamans, and many examples from the Khasia and 
Jaintia Hills. 
LTCJ1N0PSIS LILACEA. 
Plate 621, figs. 1, la, 5, lb, $. 
Cyaniris lilacea, Hampson, Proc. Nilgiri, Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 14. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. 
India, Butt. ii. p. 324 (1907). 
Cyaniris puspa, var. lilacea, Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 356. 
Cyaniris puspa, de Niceville (part), Butt, of India, iii. p. 100 (1890). 
Cyaniris crissa, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1894, p. 31, pi. 2, fig. 12. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside, shining purplish-blue. Forewing with the costal line 
black, and a narrow black marginal band, broadest at the apex, and gradually 
narrowing hindwards. Hindwing with a costal black band, which sometimes does not 
quite touch the costa ; on the outer part of the wing, this band is carried round the 
apex, where it is somewhat thickened, and gradually narrows down to the anal angle ; 
some sub-terminal black spots. Underside greyish-white, markings brown. Forewing 
with some dots on the costa beyond the middle; a rather thick linear mark at the end 
of the cell; a post-discal row of spots, curving from the costal fourth, with two spots, 
then in a line down the wing, the second spot of the line being outwardly oblique. 
Hindwing with a sub-basal small black spot and two larger ones near it, one sub¬ 
costal and the other below it, and another sub-costal black spot near the apex, and a 
smaller one immediately below it; a line at the end of the cell, and a discal row of 
markings much as in C. puspa, both wings with an angulated sub-terminal line, and A 
fine marginal black line; the first, third and last spot between them black on the 
hindwing; cilia black tipped with white. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head 
and body black above, white beneath. 
Female. Upperside. Forewing with broad black outer borders, commencing 
narrowly at the base of the costa, widening outwards, round the apex and down the 
outer margin, broadest at the lower angle ; the inner portions of the wing darkly 
suffused with pale blackish with blue scales at the base, becoming paler outwards 
