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LEPID OP TER A INDICA. 
black, and from the sub-median nervure to the abdominal margin with greyish-black, 
with a fine black anteciliary line, aud immediately internal to this a very faint and 
fine silvery-grey line decreasing from the anal angle and dwindling to nothing before 
reaching the apical angle, with the cilia dark brown, evenly tipped with silvery- 
white, and with the tails black-brown, the unequal sub-median and second median 
shorter ones edged internally with silvery-white cilia, and the longer intermediate 
first median one white-tufted at its inner extremity. Underside, both wings much 
lighter. Forewing with a broad and prominent white band bordered both sides 
with fuscous of a darker shade than the rest of the ground colour, passing off from 
the greyish-white basal portion of the inner margin across the organ to within a 
short distance of the costa, increasing in its course to a little beyond the first 
median nervule, and thence decreasing to its anterior extremity (which is washed 
with fuscous), so that its outline, while almost straight internally, is bluntly obtuse- 
angled externally, and with the outer margin at the inner angle obsoletely trilineated 
with white as in the hindwing. Hindwing with a narrower and less conspicuous discal 
whitish band of uniform width throughout, not sharply defined, but on the contrary 
diffused externally, and bordered internally with a line of fuscous which is darker 
than the ground, sharply bent inwards at right angles to itself to the abdominal 
margin and externally margined with brassy at the posterior end, with the deep 
black spot of the small anal lobe, a large grey patch of grey scales between the ends 
of the sub-median nervure and the first median nervule, an intense black spot next 
to and about half the size of this between the ends of the first and second median 
nervules, and a very short and transversely elongated or narrow similar but incon¬ 
spicuous black spot between the ends of the first and second median nervules, all 
internally margined with a discontinuous line of brassy scales which extends from the 
point where the dark discal striga with its brassy edging reaches the abdominal margin 
all along the outer margin of the organs, following the inner contours of the above 
described spots, up to the second sub-costal nervule, and with the external margin 
finely lineated with three regularly concentric silvery-white lines separated from one 
another by the black anteciliary line and the brown bases of the cilia. (Wood-Mason 
and de Niceville.) 
Female unknown. 
Expanse of wings, £ 1 to 1 t ? q inches. 
Habitat. —Andamans. 
We have not seen this species ; it is said to have no secondary sexual character ; 
we give copies of de Nicevilles figure ; it appears to be only separable from H. rana, 
de Niceville, in having no sex mark. 
