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line, followed by a series of five similar ocellated spots, a sixth or lowest spot 
sometimes also obsolescently present, the two upper and the fifth the largest and 
with red and black centres; beyond is a submarginal and marginal somewhat 
diffused blackish lunular line. Underside lilacine ochreous-white, the outer borders 
slightly tinged with pale ochreous; the basal and outer markings as on upperside, 
but very slender and faintly defined; the discal line sinuous on the fore wing and 
more or less regularly straight on the hindwing; the tw~o largest particoloured 
ocelli on both wings slightly defined and paler ochreous, or obsolescent. Forewing, 
also with an extra basal faint line across the cell, the other cell lines extending 
faintly hindward to across cell of the hindwing and partly beyond its median 
vein. 
Female. Upperside darker; the transverse lines somewhat more diffused, the 
ocellate spots brighter, with the interspaces bordering the discal and submarginal 
line more or less lunularly whitish, mostly more defined on the forewing. Underside 
pale dull yellowish or brownish-ochreous, darkest alternately between the markings 
and on outer borders; markings as in underside of male, but more distinct. Body 
and palpi above fuliginous-grey, beneath and legs greyish-white; antennas black 
above, ochreous beneath and outwardly edged with white, tip ochreous. 
Expanse, d $ 2^ to 2^ inches. 
Larva. —Cylindrical; armed with a dorsal and lateral rows of branched-spines. 
Colour fuliginous-black, with a paler subdorsal line, and a sublateral ochreous- 
brown line; spines black. 
Pupa. —Bather stout; purplish-grey; head-piece broadly obtuse in front and 
slightly cleft; thorax and abdomen with a dorsal row of acute tubercular points and 
lesser lateral points. 
Habitat. —Plains of Eastern and Peninsular India; Assam ; Ceylon; Nicobars ; 
Burma; Tenasserim; Malay Peninsula, etc. 
Aberration. —A male, from Silchar, Cachar, in Mr. P. Crowley’s collection, 
has the upperside dusky greyish-fuliginous, broadly darkest on the costal border of 
forewing and anteriorly on the hindwing. Both wings with the ordinary transverse 
discal sinuous line absent, the two submarginal lines united, and forming an ill- 
defined submarginal dusky fascia. On the forewing the interspaces of the two 
pairs of sinuous cell-streaks is fuliginous-grey, the outer-discal transverse row of 
ordinary ocelli obsolescent and without any indication of ochreous interiors; on the 
hindwing these ocelli are present but ill-defined, and slightly show the ochreous 
centres. On the underside the ground-colour is of the ordinary pale lilacine 
ochreous-white, the discal and outer line slightly indicated, but diffused, the ocelli 
also very slightly indicated, the basal transverse lines indicated by fuliginous-brown 
scaled inner and outer interspaces. 
