Achaea janata Linnaeus (1758)

Identification Marks: Palpi are upturned and smoothly scaled. Head and thorax pale reddish brown; mid tibia spined; the tibia fringed with long hair in male; abdomen is fuscous tinged with grey. Fore wings are pale reddish brown; the markings usually prominent, but sometimes almost obsolete; a short subbasal waved line; obliquely waved antemedial and excised postmedial lines often with black suffusion inside them; a speck at end of cell; a diffused rufous band beyond the postmedial line. Hind wing black, with medial white band; three large white spots on outer margin; the cilia whitish. Underside suffused with grey; fore wing with an oblique white postmedial band not reaching the costa; two crenulate medial lines on each wing. (W.S. ♂ 58 mm).