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the terminal band is broken into a series of linear spots posteriorly. 

 Underside: ground-colour similar. Tore wing: costa narrowly edged! 

 witb pink ; two well-marked discocellular and some obscure pre- 

 apical black specks. Hind wing : a small spot at base followed by 

 three transversely-placed spots and an elongated delicate loop-like 

 liscocellular spot, black ; above and below the discocellular spot 

 are small black-scaled diffuse spots and beyond the cell on the 

 disc, transverse short diffuse similar bands of black scales placed 

 en echelon. The apices of the veins in both fore and hind wings 

 with black spots ; cilia salmon-pink. Antennae, head, thorax and 

 abdomen dusky black, the thorax with some yellow hairs ; beneath r 

 the palpi, thorax and abdomen whitish yellow. $ . Similar, but 

 the terminal band on the upperside proportionately broader both 

 in the wet- and dry-season broods. 



&rp. rf 2 32-44 ram. (1-26-1-72"). 



Hab. The Himalayas from Kangra and Simla to Bhutan ; 

 Punjab ; Bengal ; Ganjam ; Western India : Poona ; Southern 

 India : the Nilgiris and Anaimalai Hills ; Ceylon ; Assam ; Burma ; 

 Tenasserim ; the Nicobars ? 



I have only seen a single specimen said to be from the Nicobars. 



Many specimens of var. senna, Felder, are superficially very 

 different in appearance. They are much larger, very heavily 

 marked on the upperside, the black of a deep intense tint, and 

 the terminal band on the hind wing very broad, well-defined and 

 conspicuous. 



64]. Terias laeta, Boisduval, Sp. Gen. Lep. i, 1836, p. 674 ; Watson, 



Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii, 1894, p. 514 ; Butler, A. M. N. H. 



(7) i, 1898, p. 65 ; Mackinnon fy de N. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xi, 



1898, p. 588. 

 Terias jaegeri, Menetries, Cat. Mus. Petrop., Lep. i, 1855, p. 84, pi. 2, 



fig. 1. 

 Terias vagans, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 357. 



d 2 . Fore wing : much more pointed at apex than in T. venata, 

 terinen sharply cut and straight. Seasonal dimorphism in this 

 form shows more definitely in the markings of the under than in 

 those of the upperside. " The form differs from T. venata as 

 follows : 



c? $ Upperside : a richer brighter yellow. Fore wing : basal 

 half of costal margin broadly irrorated with black scales ; apical 

 black area as in T. venata, but stopping abruptly at vein 2 ; the 

 tornus, except for a very fine black anticiliary line, yellow. Hind 

 wing : almost uniform, the terminal black band generally con- 

 spicuous in venata reduced to a black subapical patch and poste- 

 riorly to a series of black spots in the wet-season specimens that 

 are entirely absent in specimens taken in the dry season. 



Underside. Wet-season brood. Fore wing : dorsal margin 

 broadly pale, whitish yellow above; the base, discocellular cell- 

 area and disc of the wing rich yellow ; costa narrowly edged with 



