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LEPIDOPTEBA INDIG A. 
Female. Upperside creamy white with a slight greenish tinge, the basal portion 
more or less irrorated with black atoms. Forewing with the apical patch larger than 
in the male, occupying nearly the apical half of the wing, the orange fascia 
much restricted, consisting generally of four or five orange-red streaks, the four 
larger lower streaks with large, black, spear-shaped spots in a sub-marginal row in 
the interspaces, the inner black band broad, almost uniform in width, joining the 
outer band hindward where it is much thickened and extends to the hinder angle. 
Hindwing with the outer marginal band broad, its inner margins dentated on the 
veins, a discal row of large sub-triangular black spots. Underside similar to the male, 
the brown transverse strigse more dense, the spots more numerous, the costa of the 
forewing and the medial line of the hindwing darker and more prominent. Antennae 
in both sexes dark brown, head and thorax with reddish-brown hairs in front, thorax 
above greyish-blue, abdomen white with a bluish tinge; on the underside, the head 
and thorax are brownish and the abdomen white. 
Expanse, Z ¥ inches. 
Dry -season Brood (Figs, lb, 1c, $ ¥)• 
Wings more falcate in both sexes, the ground colour on the upperside purer 
white. Male. Forewing w T ith the apical orange-red fascia larger, the black sur¬ 
rounding bands correspondingly thinner, the inner band much attenuated, and less 
sinuous. Hindwing with the black spots on the outer margin all but obsolete. 
Underside very similar to the Wet-season form, the brown strigse and spots more 
numerous. 
Female. Upperside whiter than in the Wet-season form. Forewing with the 
apical orange-red fascia much larger, in some examples almost as large as in the male, 
the costa black ,• the outer black band of the fascia a little broader than in the male, 
the inner band less sinuous and more pronounced, the spear-shaped sub-marginal row 
of black spots larger and nearer the outer band. Hindwing with the discal spots 
smaller and more round, the band on the outer border thinner, often reduced to mere 
triangular spots. Underside much as in the male. 
Expanse, $ 4-f^, ¥ 3 T % to 4 inches. 
Habitat.— N.E. India, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Burma. 
Distribution.— Many examples in our Collection from the Khasia Hills and from 
Sikkim ; reported from Chin Lushi by de Niceville ; from Burma by Murray and 
Fruhstorfer; from Tavoy by Elwes and de Niceville ; from the North Chin Hills by 
Watson ; from the Shan States by Manders; from Siam, Annam, Tonkin, Hainan, and 
Hong Kong by Fruhstorfer; it is also found in the Malay Peninsula. 
The Lar\ a and Pupa are from Horsfield’s well-known drawings of the Java form 
(. H . Javanensis , Wallace). 
