N YMD1IALINJE. (Group LIME NIT IK A.) 
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and a very narrow outer-discal curved band, followed by a submarginal very 
obscurely defined greyisli-bordered black line ; costal border glossy silvery-grey, with 
an elongated dull grey subcostal patch of unglossed brown scales below it. Under¬ 
side mottled with dark chestnut-red, and more or less profusely studded with 
violaceous-grey strigse between the markings ; the discoidal streak, and discal bands 
on both wings, as on upperside, being yellowish-ochreous, but with much less defined 
edges; the two submarginal lines on forewing are more lunular, both being yellow 
anteriorly and violaceous-grey posteriorly; the submarginal lines on hindwing also 
violaceous-grey; the grey strigm between the discal bands on the hindwing form 
a more or less well-defined sinuous fascia ; posterior border of forewing basally glossy 
silvery-grey, enclosing an elongate patch of brown scales above the submedian vein. 
Female, Upperside. Markings as in male, but somewhat broader; the sub- 
marginal red line more distinct, the discoidal streak extending slightly but obscurely 
below the median vein. Underside as in the male. Body and palpi above dark 
olivescent-brown, middle of thorax iridescent golden-green; tegulse and abdomen 
densely speckled with reddish-ochreous scales in the male, less speckled in the 
female; palpi and thorax beneath, forelegs and hind femora pale-greyish ; abdomen 
beneath, middle and hind tibiae and tarsi pale-ochreous; antennae above black, 
beneath greyish, tip of club ochreous-red. 
Expanse, S 1^ 0 to 2 x - 0 , ? 1^ to 2 inches. 
Dry-season brood (Plate 300, fig. 1, d, e, f, $ £)• 
Male and female. Upperside with the reddish-ochreous markings broader than 
in wet-season brood, the cell-streak extending below the median vein; both the 
submarginal and the outer line on forewing generally reddish-ochreous, and on the 
hindwing, both these lines are also generally more or less obscurely of the same 
colour; in the male the subcostal patch of brown scales isolated between the bases 
of the subcostal veinlets. Underside as in wet-season , the markings, as above, less 
defined, those on the forewing being partially sprinkled and those on the hindwing 
sprinkled throughout, with reddish-ochreous strigge, the violaceous-grey strigre 
being disposed similarly but generally more dense than in wet-season examples ; the 
glossy posterior border and its patch of brown scales on forewing of male, 
prominent. 
Expanse, S 1^, to 1^, ? 1^ 0 to 2 inches. 
Caterpillar. —Head furcate ; third, fourth, sixth, and twelfth segments eacli 
armed with two subdorsal long spine-like processes. Colour above greenish-grey, 
underparts greenish-brown, divided by a sublateral pale streak extending from 
anal segment to spine on fourth segment; a dorsal diagonal brown band on eighth to 
eleventh segment. 
