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LKPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
the anterior veins, when the traversing veins are more prominently black-lined. 
Hindwing with a black-scaled exterior marginal sinuated posteriorly-decreasing band, 
the posterior portion being broadly grey-scaled. Underside. Foreiving with the 
blackish costal band broader and extending from within the base and along 
upper half of the cell area, the connected outer band being apically speckled with 
greenish-yellow scales and with a subapical greenish-yellow streak crossed by sub¬ 
costal veinlets ; base of costal border also slightly sulphur-yellow scaled. Hindwing 
with the basal half greenish-yellow, crossed by the blackish-scaled veins, the sub¬ 
costal being also broadly bordered by similar scales; the outer half of the wing 
blackish, traversed by an obscurely-defined curved discal and an outer marginal 
series of greenish-yellow spots, of which series the upper discal spot is most distinct. 
Body above dark grey ; front of head, palpi, and thorax beneath greenish-yellow, 
palpi above blackish; abdomen beneath white ; femora yellow ; tibise and tarsi black, 
tibiae whitish speckled above; antennm black, annulated with white. 
Female. Upperside brownish-black. Foreiving with the basal ground-colour 
paler than the outer and somewhat grey-scaled ; a greyish-white medial oblique 
irregular-shaped patch extending across anterior half of the cell to lowrnr median, its 
outer edge being sinuous ; in some specimens the basal area is greyer, the white 
medial area broader and extending brokenly hindward to the posterior margin, 
j Hindwing with the basal and outer posterior submarginal area dark grey scaled ; a 
greyish-white medial patch occupying the outer half of the cell and basal interspaces 
from the lower subcostal and the upper median ; in some specimens this patch is 
larger and its edges less defined, the outer posterior sub marginal grey scales more 
thickly clustered. Underside similar to the male, except that, on the fore wing, there 
is a short blackish-scaled oblique streak on middle of the posterior margin. 
Expanse, g 2^- 0 to 2^, $ 2 x - 0 to 2^ inches. 
Dry-season Brood (Plate 546, fig. 2c, d g, 2e ? ). 
Smaller than Wet form. Upperside similar. Forewing with the outer band 
somewhat narrower and more attenuated posteriorly. Hindwing with the outer band 
much narrower. Underside with similar markings to the wet form , but generally 
paler and duller coloured. 
Female. Upperside greyish-white ; somewhat like the male. Forewing with 
black outer-marginal band similar to that of the male, but more attenuated below 
the middle median. Hindwing with an almost similar outer-marginal band, the 
anterior portion being somewhat broader. Underside similar to the male, with the 
markings on both wings paler and the coloration duller. 
Expanse, S $ 2 to 2^ 0 inches. 
Habitat. —South India. 
