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LEPID OPT ERA INDICA. 
Genus ARASCHNIA. 
Araschnia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 37 (1816). Doubleday and Hewits. Gen. D. Lep. p. 187 
(1848). Staudinger and Schatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 123 (1887). Leech, Butt. China, etc., i. 
p. 267 (1892). 
Imago. Male. Wings moderately small. Forewing elongatedly triangular; 
costa very slightly arched, apex rounded, exterior margin oblique, sinuous, slightly 
convex below the apex, posterior margin slightly recurved; costal vein extending to 
about three-fifths the length; cell extending to nearly half the wing ; first subcostal 
emitted at about one-sixth before end of the cell, short and running close to the 
costal near its end, and in some specimens slightly anastomosed to it close to its 
end; upper discocellular extremely short and outwardly-oblique, middle disco- 
cellular erect and concave, lower discocellular outwardly-oblique; middle median 
emitted at some distance before lower end of the cell, lower median at half distance 
before end of cell; submedian vein slightly recurved. Hindwing small, conically- 
triangular; anterior margin almost straight from basal lobe, apex rounded, exterior 
margin convex and sinuous, abdominal margin somewhat convex, anal angle 
pointed ; precostal vein straight; radial emitted near the base of subcostal branch ; 
cell open. Body moderately slender; eyes hairy; head hairy in front; palpi 
rather slender, third joint rather long, pointed, smooth, second joint clothed with 
fine longish hairs beneath and above, sides smoothly scaled; fore tarsi in male 
clothed with fine long silky laterally-divergent hairs ; fore tarsi in female slender, 
smooth, joints spined at tip beneath. 
Larva. —Head with two erect branched-spines. Segments with a dorsal, and 
lateral rows of branched-spines. 
Pupa. —Head-piece short, cleft; thorax dorsally angled; abdomen with a 
dorsal and a shorter lateral row of points. 
Type. —A. Levana. 
Seasonal Dimorphism.— In the European species, Levana is now known to be 
the spring form and Prorsa the summer form of one species. 
ARASCHNIA DOHERTYI (Plate 320, fig. 3, 3a, b, S $ ). 
Araschnia Prorsoides, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1891, p. 285, pi. 27, fig. 5, 6, $ $ (nec Blanchard). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside dark purpurescent-brown; cilia black, alternated 
with ochreous-white. Foreiuing with two, or three, pale reddish-ochreous speckles 
within the base of the cell, a slender curved streak and two straight streaks across 
the middle of cell, followed by an upper wedge-shaped ochreous spot near end 
of the cell; below the cell is a short slender ochreous streak and an outer 
