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LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 
elongated broad entire discoidal streak, which is somewhat claviform in shape, and 
its lower end extending slightly for some distance below base of the upper median 
veinlet, and its upper edge very slightly indented at end of the cell ; a subapical 
broad outwardly-oblique band, and an inwardly-oblique lower continuous broad 
band extending to the posterior margin; beyond which are two submarginal 
slightly-defined sinuous greyish-ockreous incomplete lines. Eindwiny crossed by a 
broad inner-discal band, and an outer band, followed by a slightly-defined greyish- 
ochreous outer marginal line. Underside brownish-oclireous, with dusky-brown 
intervening discal spaces between the veins; discoidal streak and bands, as above, 
pale glossy violescent ochreous-white, their inner edges being suffused with pale 
ochreous. Forewing also with the inner marginal line entire and violescent-grey, 
the outer line less defined. Eindioing also with a short basal and a less-defined 
subbasal fascia, a medial-discal slender sinuous line, and the marginal line violescent- 
grey. 
Female. Upperside as in male ; markings the same. Underside darker and 
brighter brownish-ochreous than in male, with all the markings more prominent. 
Body and palpi above brownish-black ; palpi and thorax beneath, and forelegs pale 
grey; middle and hind-legs, and abdomen beneath pale greyish-ochreous ; antennm 
black, tip reddish. 
Expanse, d 2^, ? 2f 0 inches. 
Dry-season brood (Plate 298, fig. 1, larva and pupa; 1, a, b, c, d, $ 91- 
Male and female. Upperside with the discoidal streak and discal bands some¬ 
what broader than in wet-season brood, the marginal lines on forewing yellowish- 
ochreous. Underside with the ground-colour paler brownish-ochreous than in 
wet-season , the cell-streak and discal bands broader, as above, but less defined. 
Male with a conspicuous tuft of laxly exserted blade glandular scales of varied 
lengthened clavate shapes, disposed laterally along middle segments of abdomen 
beneath. This tuft was not observable in males of wet-season form that we 
examined. 
Expanse, cf 2f 0) ¥ 2^, inches. 
Caterpillar. —“ Resembles that of B. Eordonia in form, but the bead is bifid at 
the top, and the dorsal points are wanting, while the last segment is produced into 
a single blunt point. The colour is dark greenish-brown, the fore-part, as in B. 
Eordonia, being much darker than the rest, but bordered with pale grey ’’(Davidson 
and Aitken, l.c. 251). 
Chrysalis. — “ Like that of B. Eordonia , but rather broader, and the wing-cases 
more evenly expanded ” (id. 251). 
