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LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 
Female, above and below like the male, but the white spots on the forewing above 
are larger. 
Expanse of wings, $ $ 1 to inches. 
Larva, pale green, the segments armed with elongated divergent processes. Feeds 
on Euphorbiacae (Moore). Feeds on the flowers or young shoots of “Pitkali ” 
(Eugenia zeylamca ), but also on Tlojoea and other things (we reared one on a common 
garden croton); is of a pale green, with a line of long, pink protuberances along the 
back, the last curved outwards and upwards, two protuberances curved outwards on the 
sides of the last segment, and on the fourth segment a straight, sharp-pointed one, low 
down laterally; the line of dorsal protuberances branches near the head into two. 
Pupa, green, becoming browner as it nears the imago state, marked on the wing- 
covers and on the back of the abdomen with pink, perfectly smooth, fastened along a 
stalk by the tail only. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 
PIabitat.— Central and Southern India, Ceylon. 
Distribution. —We have it from Kandy and Trincomaii, in Ceylon, also from 
Trevandrum. We took it in Bombay and Poona; Hampson records it from the 
Kilgiris, 2,000 to 4,000 feet elevation; Moore records it from Calcutta and Kanara; de 
Niceville says there is a single example in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, from Sibsaghar, 
in Upper Assam, and that W. C. Taylor took it in Orissa, Minchin in Ganjam and 
Bangalore, and Wade at Kandy and Galle. 
Genus HORA.GA, 
Horaga, Moore, Lep. Ce^ylon, i. p. 98 (1881). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 459 (1886). de Mceville, 
Butt, of India, iii. p. 414 (1890). 
Eyes naked, in neuration very near to Rathinda. Veins 12, 11, and 10 lie 
closer together than they do in Rathinda , 12 ends on costa opposite the end of the cell, 
11 emitted from the middle of the cell, and is only slightly bowed upwards towards 12, 
10 at more than OTie-third before end; middle discocellular much shorter than the 
lower, more in a straight line than in Rathinda, vein 3 emitted some little distance 
before the lower end of the cell; wing short, triangular, costa gently arched, apex 
acute, outer margin even, slightly oblique. Antennae less than half the length of the 
costa of forewing, gradually thickening to a pointed club. 
Type, Theda onyx , Moore. 
HORAGA ONYX. 
Plate 706, figs. 5, $, 5a, 9 , 5, b, $ . 
Theda onyx, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 30 (1857). 
Horaga onyx, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 247. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 416 (1890). 
Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 640. Swinlioe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 305. Mackinnon and 
de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 387, pi. V, figs. 18a, 18b, larva. 
