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317: 88: 305: 277:: Similar to male, with ground colour paler; a broad oblique white discal bar and two white preapical spots on the upper-side of the forewing; a large, rectangular black subterminal mark in interspaces and a white spot above and below it, on the upper-side of the hindwing. Underside similar to the underside in the male, all the markings more prominent, the lilac, ochraceous and brown shades paler; the broad discal bar on forewing, as on the upper-side, joined by a nearly vertical lilacine white band bearing the series of ocelli. 293: 106: 25: 471: 441: 271:
sinuous, the latter angulated on vein 4, and an arched postdiscal series of black fulvous-ringed ocelli, some with disintegrate centres; the wing medially suffused with lilac, the ocelli with lilacine lunules on both sides. Forewings and hindwings with slender lilacine subterminal and broader ochraceous terminal lines.
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Larva. "Fusiform; head conical, the vertex pointed and projected forward, anal segment pointed and projected hind ward. Colour pale green, with paler transverse lines on each segment; a lateral and a sublateral pale-bordered reddish stripe extending the whole length, including the anal segment. Feeds
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spots. Underside, brown; forewing below vein 2 and terminal margin paler, with a broad band across the cell, the wing medially and at apex suffused with lilac, bearing an incurved postdiscal series of five, blind black ocelli. Hindwing: sub basal and discal narrow transverse lilac bands, the former
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On the hindwing, a brown transverse discal band is very broadly produced between veins 4 and 5. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown; antennae ochraceous at apex.
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Pupa. "Suspended by the tail, broad and truncated anteriorly, abdominal segments dorsally convex, head and vertex both pointed; colour pale green." (After Moore)
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Upper-side very dark Vandyke brown; forewing uniform: hindwing with a postdiscal series of three or four blind black
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Female (left) and male (right) upper and underside pattern
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Lethe
Binomial name
Hewitson
Satyrinae
South India
Sri Lanka
Glossary of entomology terms
ocellar
Female (left) and male (right) upper and underside pattern
Male, Kerala, India
Female, Sri Lanka
Frederic Moore


A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India
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10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164
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