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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part II Natural Science 1897

1898

Forewing has the two discoidal bars as on the uppeside the inner one broad the outer one narrow the space between them yellow ; the discal fascia is broader and more prominent than above its outer edge sharply defined ; the discal area beyond is yellow becoming darker till it is almost lost in the submarginal fascia; the subapical spots as on the upperside three in number and white ; the ma [...] It is still nearer to L. ocellata Poujade from Mon-Pin in Eastern Thibet and Omoi-shan and Pu-ten-fong in Western China of which L. simulans Leech is a synonym from which it appears to differ on the upperside of the forewing in the presence of the short subapical pale bar ; the ground-colour of the underside is pale ochreous instead of " greyish-brown " and the discal dark bands of the hind [...] The male differs from that species in having the narrow discal black line on the underside of the forewing quite straight instead of irregular ; and the female differs in having the discal band on the forewing cosiderably broader. [...] Near to N. shepherdi Moore from New South Wales Australia (Moore) and North-West New Guinea ( Grose Smith) from the figure of which it differs in having the discal spots on the upperside of the forowing larger and an additional spot anterior to the submedian nervare ; the discal band of the hindwing being much broader ; and from the description (as also my solitary specimen from New Guinea) [...] In the hindwing the discoidal cell has no markings whatever in 0. davidis there is usually a narrow outwardly bifurcated dusky streak and the cell is always heavily bordered by dusky scales ; all the spots on the disc are also much larger in the present species than they are in 0. davidis ; the submedian interspace also is at the base entirely free of dusky irrorations while in 0. davidis the a
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Pages
69
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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