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vertically upwards and joins the narrow black edging on the costal 

 margin, and strongly concavely downwards to its angulation on 

 vein 4 ; posteriorly the square dilated portion of the black area is 

 sloped obliquely outwards on its inner side. Hind wing : termen 

 narrowly edged with black, which is slightly broader anteriorly. 

 In specimens procured in the height of the dry weather this edging 

 is much narrower. Underside : ground-colour slightly paler tha.it 

 on the upperside. Fore Aving : in specimens of the wet-season 

 brood, with a single, very sleuder, short transverse sinuous line 

 in the middle of the cell, a reniform loop of slender lines on the 

 discocellulars and a small spot at the apices of all the veins that 

 end along the costa and termen, jet-black. In specimens inter- 

 mediate between the wet-season and extreme dry-season forms,, 

 and which most nearly resemble the type-specimen, there are, in 

 addition, close to the apex of the wing, two short sinuate transverse 

 black lines, often broken into small spots, placed subapically at 

 right angles with the costal margin. In extreme dry-season speci- 

 mens these sinuous short vertical lines are replaced by a very large 

 conspicuous inky -black square patch that covers the entire apex 

 of the wing. Hind wing : markings similar to those in T. hecabe. 

 Antenna?, head, thorax and abdomen somewhat darker than in 

 T. hecabe. In the c? the sex-mark similar to that in T. Jiecabe. 



Exp. 6 $ 48-53 mm. (1-88-2-07"). 



Hub. Tenasserim ; S. Andamans. 



This form has been recorded also from Mussoorie and Sikhim, 

 but I am very doubtful whether the specimens were correctly 

 identified. 



645. Terias sari, Horsfield,Cat. Lep. Mus. E. l.C. 1829, p. 136 ; Moore, 

 Cat. Lep. Mus. E. /. C. i, 1857, p. 64 ; Watson, Jour. Bomb. N. H. 

 Soc. viii, 1894, p. 514; Sutler, A. M. N. H. (7) i, 1898, p. 73. 



Terias sodalis, Moore, Jour. Linn. Soc., Zool. xxi, 1886, p. 45. 



Terias curiosus, Sioinhoe, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 508, pi. 47, fig. 3. 



The type-specimen belongs to the dry-season brood and can be 

 briefly described as follows : <$ . Upperside : pale sulphur-yellow. 



Fig. 64. Teriaa si/ri. 

 a. Typical dry-season brood. 

 ?>. Typical wet-season brood. 



Tore wing : the black area on the terminal half very similar to 

 that of a heavily marked broad-bordered T. hecabe, but the 



