lillOPALOCEUA MA LA VAX A. 806 



Hab.— Continental India; Bombay (Leith— coll. Dist.).— Malay Peninsula; Penang (coll. Dist.) ; 

 Perak (Kunstler— Calc. Mus. ; Biggs— coll. Dist.) ; Sungei Ujong (Durnford— coll. Dist.). 



This varietal form somewhat approaches the T. w.siope of Menetries, and is intermediate 

 between that form and typical T. hecabe. It seems impossible to come to any other conclusion 

 than that this species is extremely variable ; and this view is not only prompted by the extent 

 of its geographical distribution, but has also l)ccn proved by the breeding experiments of 

 Mr. Pryer in Japan {aiitea, p. 302).* In my own opinion tht; following species ('?), 2'. sari, should 

 also be considered as a variety of T. hecahe, ])ut as Itreeding experiments have not yet proved 

 this to be the case (as I have little doubt will subsequently be demonstrated), I have kept 

 them as distinct in a classificatonj sense. 



The larva and pupa, as observed in Java have been ligured by Horslield, | who describes 

 the first as feeding on the " ^Eschijuoniciie seshaii," and as "found abundantly from January 

 to April."]: In Ceylon, according to Dr. Thwaites, the larva feeds on Jjojumiuom, und 

 Mr. Mackwood gives the " Madras thorn" as the food-plant. § 



3. Terias sari. (Tab. XXV., fig. 3 ,? .) 



Terias Sari, Hoi'sfield, Cat. Lep. E.I. C. p. 13G, u. Ul (1829); Wall. Tians. Eut. Soc. ser. 3, vol. iv. p. 326, 

 n. 25 (1867) ; Butl. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 537, n. 63 ; Trans. Liim. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 550, 

 u. 2 (1877) ; Dnico, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 354, u. 4. 



Terias Ilecahe, var. ? , Boisd. Sp. Geu. i. p. 670 (1836). 



Male. Wings above closely resembling those of T. hccahr, but the anterior wings beneath with a 

 large apical fuscous subquadrate spot. 



Female. Kesembling the male, but paler sulphureous, and with the dark marginal markings paler 

 and broader. 



Var. a. (Tab. XXVI., fig. 3 ^ .) 



Eesembling typical form of T. sari, but with the subquadrate apical fuscous spot on the under sm-face 

 of the anterior w-ings more or less cleft. 



Var. h. (Tab. XXVI., fig. 7.) 



Pale and dwarf form of the species. 



Exp. wings, 34 to o'2 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Perak (Iviinstler— Calc. Mus.) ; Malacca 

 (Pinwill — Brit. Mus.); Singapore (Kerr — coll. Dist.). — Sumatra (Wallace). — Java (Horslield). — Borneo 

 (Druce) ; Sandakan (Pryer — coll. Dist.). — Flores, Timor, Australia ? (Wallace). 



As previously stated, the writer can see no improbability, but rather every possibility, that 

 breeding will prove the T. sari, Horsf., to be only a variety of T. hecabe, Linn. The typical 

 sari, as described by Horsfield, is the form figured (Tab. XXV., fig. 3). The dwarf form 

 (Tab. XXVI., fig. 7) is not uncommon, as the British Museum also contains an example which 

 was captured by Capt. Pinwill in Malacca. 



- I have not included in the synonymy all the named forms which Mr. I'rycr found to be consxiecific in Japan, as some 

 of them do not appear to be found m this fauna. 



t Cat. Lep. E. I. C. t. iv. f. 8, Sa. I Ibid. p. 136. § Jloore's Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 11!). 



June 20, 1885. '^ ^ 



