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LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
Hinclwing covered with greenish irrorations, a large white spot at the end of the cell, 
with a small one above it, both ringed with brownish-orange, and some suffusion of 
the same colour close around them; costal line brownish-orange, a brown spot in 
its middle, and a whorl of discal brownish-orange dots. Cilia of both wings above and 
below orange. 
Female. Upperside. Forewing paler in colour, the base more thickly irrorated, 
the irrorations often extending to nearly the middle of the wing, the cell spot larger, 
the costal margin also irrorated, the exterior band much broader, its inner margin 
usually curving into the wing below the costa and at veins 3 and 2 ; five or six pale 
whitish spots in the middle of the band, four, sometimes five, in a whorl downwards 
from the costa, increasing in size hind wards, a larger spot just below the middle with a 
small spot below it, sometimes absent. Hindwing much more thickly irrorated than in 
the male, the cell patch similar, no spots of the ground colour in the disc, the exterior 
band very broad, suffused inwardly, especially so hindwards, four or five large pale 
spots in it near its inner margin, decreasing in size hindwards, the band is extended 
broadly on the costa, having a large pale space at the base. Underside as in the male. 
Antennae, head and thorax in front salmon-pink. Club of antennae brownish, rest of 
thorax and abdomen above greenish-black, below yellow, a patch of thickly-set light 
yellow scales at the base of interspace 7 on the hindwing above. 
Expanse, $ Y2 T V to 2 T %- inches. 
Dry-season Brood (Figs. 4c, A 4d, 7). 
Male and female differ from the Wet-season form in their medium size, the outer 
bands on both wings above are narrower, and usually have the veins towards the apex 
of the forewing, whitish in the male, the general colour is paler and the irrorations 
lighter, on the underside both forms are alike. 
Expanse, ^ $ 2 to 2 t 2 q- inches. 
Extreme Dry-season Brood (Fig. 4e, $). 
Male and female small in size, the colour pale, the exterior bands very narrow, 
the spots below small. 
Expanse, $ $ 1 t 8 q- to 2 inches. 
Habitat.— The Himalayas, extending to Assam, Upper Burma, and the Shan 
States. 
Distribution. —We have received it from Campbellpur, Murree, Akhor, Abbotabad, 
and Thundiani (Punjab), also from Mussuri, Sikkim, Mian Jani, and the Khasia Hills ; 
Leslie and Evans record it from Chitral; Doherty from Kumaun, and Manders from 
the Shan States ; it is in the B. M. from Goorais Yalley, Scind Galley, Lahoul, Pangi, 
Simla, Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, Chumbi, Naga Hills, Shan States, and from Upper Burma. 
