LYCPENOPSTNIE. 
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Dry-season Brood (Figs. 2c, $, 2d, $). 
Male. Forewing. Upperside with the interior portion white, leaving a broad 
costal and marginal black band, a black spot at the upper end of cell, and some brown 
suffusion at the base. Hindwing paler and more brownish ; a large white discal patch, 
which narrows somewhat upwards to vein 6, and often runs in towards the base above 
vein 4; a complete and well defined blackish-brown, rather narrow marginal band. 
Underside as in the Wet-season brood, but the lines and markings much paler and 
fainter. 
Female, like the male, but the white on both wings more extensive. 
Expanse of wings, ^ $ 1 inch. 
Extreme Dry-season Brood (Fig. 2e, £). 
Male and female like minute forms of the Dry-season brood, the markings under¬ 
neath almost invisible. 
Expanse of wings, $ £ to t 7 q- inch. 
Larva of the usual woodlouse form, it is of a rough texture, with the segments 
well defined, pubose under the lens, the head concealed and the sides flattened; colour 
a bright apple-green, with a faint darker line along the middle of the back ; it feeds on 
Glyeomis pentaphylla, Correa, and the pupa is attached to the leaf, parallel to it; the 
thoracic part is narrow and contracted, and the abdominal rounded and considerably 
higher than the thorax; it is of a bright green with a darker dorsal line and a similar 
line forming the boundary of the abdominal segments; it has a row of minute dark 
spots along these lines (Davidson, Bell and Aitken). 
Habitat. —India, Burma, Ceylon, Andamans, Malay Peninsula; a common 
species. 
SECTION HI. 
Genus PITHEGOPS. 
Pithecops, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 66 (1828). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 48 (1890). 
Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 307 (1907). 
Eyes naked ; antennae a little longer than half the length of costa of fore wing 
with a well formed spatulate club ; palpi sub-porrect; second joint thickly clothed 
with adpressed scales ; third joint aciculate. Forewing long, narrow ; costa arched, 
apex rounded, hinder margin straight or very slightly sinuous ; cell about half the 
length of the wing; the costal nervure short, terminating before the .end of the cell, 
first sub-costal nervule emitted at about the middle of the cell, very short, directed 
obliquely upwards to the costal nervure, with which it is completely anastomosed in its 
