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LEPID OP TEE A INDIO A. 
Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1, la, ?, lb, U lc, ?). 
Imago. Male. Upper side pale blue, brighter and slightly darker than in Hippia, 
veins more broadly black, especially the medial vein of the forewing , the costal band 
similar, the outer marginal band very broad, occupying more than a third of the wing, 
and quite spotless, the broadness of the band making the outer blue interspaces very 
short, especially those in front of the cell, which are very short. Hindwing with a 
similar broad outer band, the androconia scales not covering the whole band as they 
do in Naraka and Ceylanica , but gradually narrowing hindwards. Underside much 
paler and duller in colour, all the veins with pale blackish bands, a sub-marginal row of 
lunular blackish marks joined together, making a marginal series of large pale blue 
spots on both wings, edged on the extreme margin with pale blackish colour. 
Female. Upperside black, with the stripes and spots disposed much as in Hippia , 
the former, however, are all very narrow. Underside as in the Wet-season form of 
Hippia. 
Expanse, £ 3, ? 3 T % inches. 
Dry-season Brood (Figs. Id, £, le, £, If, $, Ig, $), 
Male. Upperside coloured as in the other form, the black bands on the veins 
thinner, the outer marginal bands much narrower, not as a rule broader than in the 
Wet-season form of Hippia. Underside very much paler, the black stripes on the 
wings almost obsolete except the sub-costal and median veins of the forewing. 
Female with the stripes and spots disposed as in the Wet-season form, but much 
broader, the inner portion of the hindwing on the underside much whiter, the lower veins 
almost without markings. 
Expanse, £ 2 T 8 X , $ 3 X V inches. 
Larva. —Feeds on Caparis Heyneana, is long, cylindrical, or slightly depressed 
and tapering perceptibly from the head, which is large, to the tail, which ends in two 
short strong spines clothed with bristles ; the body is clothed with very minute hairs, 
colour green, with a lateral row of conspicuous white spots, from the 5 th to the 12th 
segment, and rows of smaller spots on the back. 
Pupa. —Suspended by the tail and by a very long band, this is a curious object, the 
thoracic portion being bent back almost at right angles to the abdominal, and the head 
produced into a very long, sharp snout, while the wing cases form a keel nearly half an 
inch in depth, and so thin as to be almost transparent; colour a uniform pale watery- 
green. (Davidson and Aifcken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 357.) 
Habitat. — South India. 
Distribution. —We have it from the Nilgiris, Malabar and Kanara Districts, and 
Fergusson recorded it from Tra van core. 
