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LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
anteriorly to tlie upper subcostal veinlet, followed by a slender interrupted marginal 
line. Underside bright oclireous-yellow, with two marginal prominent slender black 
lines. Forewing also with broad black tessellated marks from base of costa to the 
apex and obliquely from below base of cell to middle of outer margin, the interspaces 
representing the areas of the bands of the upperside being glossy bluish-white and 
distinctly defined. Hinchving also with the basal and lower discal area tessellated 
with broad black marks, the intervening discal area being glossy opalescent-white ; 
a sub marginal series of five metallic-green conical spots, the two upper smallest and 
somewhat flattened, each spot black-speckled and outlined with black, and all 
encompassed by an outer slender black line ; beyond is a marginal anterior black 
line, and posterior metallic-green lunules ending in a partially disconnected anal 
broader black lunule centred with blue-speckles; a small blue-speckled lunule 
also at abdominal angle; the linear interspace between the second row of 
basal black marks, and also between those above the abdominal angle being white. 
Body and palpi above fulvescent-black; abdomen with ochreous bands ; body 
beneath and legs ochreous-yellow, abdomen with black spots ; antennse black, tip 
ochreous. 
Female. Upperside with similar but slightly broader, and paler bands than in 
male. Underside as in male; all the markings somewhat broader, the marginal 
lower metallic-speckled lunules on the hindwing also much broader. 
Expanse, d 1^ to 2, ?2f t 0 inches. 
Pry-season form (Plate 325, fig. Id, e, $). 
Male. Somewhat smaller than wet-season form. Upperside with all the 
bands similar, but of a paler yellowish-ochreous, their middle areas palest 
and their edges somewhat more irregular. Underside paler yellow than the 
wet-season form. Both wings with the tessellate black marks smaller, the white 
bands representing those of the upperside not glossy. Hindwing with the 
series of metallic-green spots smaller, shorter, and somewhat quadrate in shape, 
the disconnected anal lunule and the lunule at abdominal angle centred with 
blue speckles. 
Female. Upperside with the bands slightly broader than in male. Underside 
as male. 
Expanse, d 1 n> to 2, ? 2 inches. 
Habitat. —Sikkim. 
Distribution, —“ This is rare in Sikkim, occurring at low elevations from 
about 3000 to 5000 feet, from March to October” (H. J. Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 
365). 
