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LEI?ID OP TEE A INDICA. 
Distribution. —Taken by us at Khandalla and Malabar Hills, Bombay, where the 
Dry-season form is very plentiful in October, November and December; we have it 
also from Calicut, and several Wet-season forms from different parts of Ceylon taken in 
April, May, June and July. Davidson reports it from the Canara District, Aitken and 
Comber from the Konkan, Betham from Matheran, and Fergusson from Travancore. 
HEBOMOIA ROEPSTORFI. 
Plate 592, figs. 2, J, 2c, J (Wet-season Brood), 2b, <£, 2a J (Dr y-season Brood). 
Hebomoia Eoejpstorji , Wood-Mason, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1880, pp. 134, 150 and 235. Wood- 
Mason and de NTiceville, l.c. 1881, p. 251, pi. 14, figs. 3, 4 and 5, $ $ . Bingham, Fauna 
of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 276, pi. 18, fig. 122 (1907). 
Wet-season Brood (Figs. 2, 2c, <? $). 
Male. Upperside. Forewing white tinged with sulphur-yellow ; the costal line 
black as in Australis , the orange apical patch broader, spreading into the apex of the 
discoiclal cell, the outer black band similar, the inner band complete and more or less 
even, but usually thin throughout, except at its upper and lower ends where it is 
slightly thickened, and usually with two indentations at veins 2 and 4, the 
sub-marginal row of black spots small and nearly round. Hindwing white with the 
yellow tinge deeper, the exterior margin with a thin black band, thickened on the veins. 
Underside marked as in Australis , but the apical patch of the forewings and the entire 
hindwings suffused with dark ochreous-yellow. 
Female. Upperside. Forewing white tinged with sulphur-yellow, with the basal 
portions irrorated with black scales, the black costal margin thicker than in the male, 
the apical orange patch reduced, the black outer border being broader, the inner border 
similar, the sub-marginal black spots much larger, spear-shaped, and much nearer to the 
margin. Hindwing white, with the yellow tinge deeper than in the male, almost 
chrome-yellow in the outer portions in most specimens, the exterior marginal band 
broader and angled on the veins, the discal row of black spots smaller than in Australis , 
but of similar shape. Underside of both wings similar to the male. 
Expanse, $ $ 4 inches. 
Dry-season Brood (Figs. 2b, 2a, $ $). 
Male. Upperside. Forewing coloured as in the Wet-season form, the costal 
margin and orange apical patch similar, except that there is always an orange spot at 
the lower end of the patch below vein 2, the black inner margin to the patch is 
generally absent, sometimes faintly indicated, the sub-marginal spots are generally 
reduced to mere dots. Hindwing with the coloration of the Wet-season form, but the 
band on the exterior border is reduced to a few black spots on the veins and is some¬ 
times entirely absent. 
