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anterior veins; or again, the costa may be narrowly black, the 

 apex very broadly so, and this colour continued down the termen 

 but narrowed posteriorly. Hind wing: sometimes immaculate, but 

 generally with narrow terminal black spots at the apices of the 

 veins, these often reduced to mere dots, or again so broadened 

 as to coalesce into a narrow terminal black margin. Underside : 

 ground-colour similar, suffused on the anterior half of the fore and 

 over the whole surface of the hind wing with a greenish tint 

 tliat varies to an ochraceous yellow, and, except in the very palest 

 specimens, is evenly irrorated over the greenish or ochraceous-tinted 

 areas with transverse, short, reddish-brown strigae ; both fore and 

 hind wings with generally an obscure discocellular reddish-brown 

 spot or indication thereof. $ . Upperside : as in the J , but some- 

 times with a suffusion of pale greenish yellow on the terminal third 

 or fourth only of both fore and hind wings, rarely of that tint 

 throughout. Fore wing: always with a discocellular black spot 

 that varies very much in size ; costa sometimes narrowly black 

 with the basal half pinkish, in other specimens narrowly black 

 throughout, the black broadened at the apex and continued along 

 the anterior half of the termen in a series of inwardly-pointed black 

 spots ; or again, the costa may be more broadly black, that colour 

 widened considerably at the apex and continued broadly down the 

 termen to vein 3, then suddenly narrowed to a slender line at the 

 tornus ; in most specimens there is an anterior postdiscal short black 

 macular band ; in the dark forms this coalesces \vith the black on 

 apex and termen. Hind wing: sometimes immaculate, sometimes 

 with a series of terminal spots at the apices of the veins, some- 

 times with a narrow dusky-black terminal band broadest near the 

 apex, narrowed posteriorly to a slender line at the tornus. In the 

 very dark specimens there is in addition an ill-defined, short, 

 anterior postdiscal macular black band. Underside : as in the tf , 

 with similar variations, but in addition in most specimens the 

 discocellular spots are well-defined with an outer red ring that 

 encircles a silvery spot ; on the hind wing one or two similar 

 spots on each side of the discocellulars ; generally also both wings 

 are crossed by a transverse postdiscal line of minute red spots, 

 which on the fore wing is confined to the anterior portion, on the 

 hind wing is nearly complete. In both sexes: antennas reddish, 

 head and thorax anteriorly brown, thorax clothed posteriorly 

 with long white hairs, abdomen white ; beneath: the palpi, thorax 

 and abdomen white. 



Exp. rf $ 52-66 mm. (2-08-2-70"). 



Hob. Throughout India ; Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserira ; not 

 ascending the Himalayas to above 7000 ft. It extends to China 

 on the east, and as far as Australia southwards. 



Larva. " Long, somewhat depressed, rough, green, with a white 

 lateral line and above it a black line more or less conspicuous, 

 formed by minute black shining tubercles. In short, this larva is 

 very like a big specimen of the last (Terias hecabe)." 



