301 



RHOPALOCERA MALA VAXA. 



2. Terias hecabe. (Tal). XXVI., fig. 10 <? .) 



r„j,ili„ Hecabr, LiuiKLHis, Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 470, u. 74 (175«); ib. ed. sii. p. 7G.3, u. 96 (17C7i; Clerck, 



Icones Ins. iii. lined.) t. 6, f. 4, a, h il7G4) ; Fabr. Syst. Eut. p. 472, n. 125 (1775) ; Spec. Ins. ii. 



p. 42, n.l78 (1781); Sulz, Gesch. Ins. p. 143, t. 15,f.7 (177G); Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 40, t. 124,B, C 



(1779); Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 5, p. 2269, n. 90 (1790); Hevbst, Naturs. Sebmett. v. p. 171, n. 82, 



t. 106, f. 3, 4 (17921. 

 Knr.ma ILrab,; Hiibu. Vcrz. bek. Scbmett. p. 96, n. 1022 (1810); Aurivill. Kongl. sv. vet. Akad. Handl. 



Band. 19, no. 5, p. 60 (1882). 

 Pieiis liecahe, Godt. Euc. Mutb. ix. p. 134, u. 51 (1819). 

 Terias Hecabe, Swains. Zool. 111. i. t. 22 (1820); Horsf. Cat. Lep. E.I. C. p. 135, u. 60, t. 1, f. 12 (1829); 



Boisd. Spec. Gen. i. p. 669, n. 27 (1836); Luc. Lep. Exot. p. 75, t. 38, f. 2 (1845) ; Butl. Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1870, p. 727, u. 1 ; ib. 1871, p. 536, n. 59 ; ib. 1874, p. 286, n. 71 ; Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, 



p. 836 ; Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 118, t. 45, f. 1 a, b, c (1881) ; Snell. Tijd. Ent. xix. p. 18, n. 67 (1876) ; 



ib. Lep. V. Midden- Sumatra, p. 23, u. 1 (Leiden, 1880) ; Wood-Mas. & de Nic. .1. A. S. Beng. vol. xlix. 



p. 235, n. 56 (1880) ; ib. vol. l. p. 236, n. 49 (1881) ; Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 881. 

 Terias Jiecalieuiiles, Butl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 550, u. 3 (1877) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. 



p. 119, t. 45, f. 3, 3fl, /- (1881). 

 Teriiis iiiultifoniiis, Pryer (part), Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 489. 



Male. "Wings above bright sulphureous ; anterior wings with the costal margin narrowly, and the 

 apex and outer margin broadly, blackish ; the outer black area is concavely and sinuately oblique to upper 

 median nervule, then strongly deflected towards margin, slightly but distinctly angulately produced 

 at second median nervule, and inwardly extending along inner margin for about one-fourth of its length ; 

 posterior wings with the outer margin blackish, which becomes evanescent towards the anal angle. 

 Wings beneath somewhat less brilliant sulphureous than above ; anterior wings with a small dusky spot 

 near base of cell, and with two slender and connected angulated disco-cellular lines at end of cell ; apical 

 and outer margin minutely spotted with fuscous ; posterior wings with three rounded dusky spots near 

 base, two angulated and connected disco-cellular lines at end of cell, and some outer discal small dusky 

 patches ; posterior margin minutely spotted with fuscous. Body above blackish, beneath, with legs, more 

 or less ochraceous ; tarsi somewhat infuscated. 



Female. Paler sulphureous than the male, the dark markings also paler and somewhat broader. 



Exp. wings, <? and 2 , 35 to 50 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India; N.W. Himalaya (Hocking — Moore); Bombay (Leith — coll. Dist.) ; Gujerat 

 (Brit. Mus.) ; Silhet (Brit. Mus.) ; Sikkim (de Niceville).— Ceylon (Thwaites— coll. Dist.).— Andaman 

 Islands; Port Blair (Wood-Mas. & de Nic.).— Nicobar Islands; Katschall, Trinkut, Nankowri (Wood-Mas. 

 and de Nic). — Burma; Moulmein (Brit. Mus.). — Tenasserim ; Meetan ; Hatsiega ; Naththoung to Paboga 

 (Limborg— Moore). — Malay Peninsula ; Penang, Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Sungei Ujong (Biggs — 

 coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mus.) ; Singapore (Kerr — coll. Dist.). — Siam ; Nahconchaisee (Druce). — 

 Sumatra (Snellen). — Nias Island (Kbeil). — Billiton (Grodm. & Salv.). — -Java (Horsf.); Batavia (Snellen); 

 Bantam (coll. Dist.). — Borneo (Druce) ; Sandakan (Pryer — -coll. Dist.).— Celebes (coll. Dist.). — Formosa 

 (Brit. Mus.). — China, .Japan (Elwes).— Aru Islands (' Challenger ' Exped.). — New Guinea (Godm. & Salv.). — 

 New Ireland (coll. Dist.). — Australia; Cape York (Brit. Mus.) ; Port Essington, Piockingham Bay (Brit. 

 IMus.). — South Sea Islands; Yanua, Yalava (Herr Schiiff.). 



Var. a. (Tab. XXVI., fig. 15 J , 11 2 .) 



More or loss completely resembling typical form of T. hecabe above, but beneath with a more or less 

 developed irregularly formed subapical fuscous streak to anterior wings, and the dark markings somewhat 

 more numerous and better pronounced on posterior wings. 



