Tamil Treebrown (Male)

Description:

Male :- Upper side very dark vandyke-brown; fore wing uniform: hind wing with a post-discal series of three or four blind black ocellar spots. Underside is brown; fore wing below vein 2 and terminal margin paler, a broad band across the cell, the wing medially and at apex suffused with lilac, bearing an incurved post-discal series of five, blind black ocelli. Hind wing is sub basal and discal narrow transverse lilac bands, the former sinuous, the latter angulated on vein 4, and an arched post-discal series of black fulvous-ringed ocelli, some with disintegrate centers; the wing medially suffused with lilac, the ocelli with lilacine lunules on both sides. Fore and hind wings with slender lilacine sub terminal and broader ochraceous terminal lines. On the hind wing the brown transverse discal band very broadly produced between veins 4 and 5. The Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen is brown.

Habitat:

The nominotypical race found in Sri Lanka occurs throughout the island where there are bamboo and high rain fall between 2000 and 7000 feet.