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LET ID OPT ERA INDICA . 
veins uniformly extending from tlie base ; a short white cilial hinular point between 
the veins, the apical one being sometimes elongated. Hindwing with a large creamy - 
white npper-discal patch usually composed of four portions, of which the upper 
portion is much the shortest, and, generally, the lower portion has an attached very 
small more or less whitish speckled spot; in some specimens there are golden-yellow 
scales scattered longitudinally between the outer interspaces of the median branches, 
and, in others, the outer marginal and lower discal area are sparsely speckled with 
similar scales. Cilia alternated slenderly with white. Underside paler. Forewing 
with grey-scaled cell streaks and golden-yellow scaled outer vein streaks, these latter 
streaks either uniformly occupying the outer interspaces, or, in some, are more or less 
restricted to the apical area, with their inner ends slightly more defined and greyish- 
scaled—thus slightly indicating the presence of a subapical oblique fascia; a bluish- 
white constricted spot is always present obliquely placed in the submedian interspace 
near the posterior angle, below which is a more or less white-speckled smaller spot; 
cilial white points prominent. Hindwing with the upper and lower basal area and 
the cell streaks, or the whole dark area of the tying except the tail sparsely irrorated 
with golden-yellow or greyish scales ; upper discal patch white, of which the four 
portions, as above, are sometimes smaller, these being followed by three very much 
smaller lower-discal spots, which latter are either quadrate, bluntly conical, or 
lunular in shape, placed in the median and submedian interspaces, and thus form a 
transverse discal interrupted band, these three last spots are either white, or the 
third, and in some the second and third are yellowish-ochreous, and occasionally, but 
very rarely, these three lower-discal small spots are absent; beyond is a sub¬ 
marginal row of six yellowish-ochreous lunules and an anal lunule; cilial lunules 
prominently white. Head and thorax black ; collar and head white spotted ; 
abdomen fuliginous-black with a white lateral continuous streak and a sublateral row 
of dots ; legs black, femora white beneath ; antennae black. 
Uemale. Upperside paler, dark sepia-brown ; cell and vein-streaks ]ealer, the 
anterior streaks having their base slightly greyish-white scaled outside end of the 
cell, and thus form an ill-defined subapical oblique fascia; the posterior streaks are 
also more or less slightly greyish-white scaled ; marginal cilial white points and 
elongated apical cilia as in the male. Hindwing with the dark outer area in some 
specimens very sparsely irrorated with golden-yellow scales ; upper-discal patch 
similar to the male, composed of five portions, very pale yellow, the upper portion 
being shorter ; cilia slenderly alternated with white. Underside. Forewing similar 
to the male, except that, on the forewing, the subapical greyish-white fascia is more 
defined than on the upperside, the white spots at the posterior angle and the 
marginal points are larger; and, on the hindwing, the anal and submarginal 
yellowish-ochreous lunules are broader, the marginal cilial lunules are also somewhat 
