256 PIERID.I;. 



excavated portion on the inner edge between veins 2 and 4 

 differently shaped (compare figs. 60 & 64 a). Hind wing: a 

 broad terminal black band, attenuated anteriorly and posteriorly, 

 diffuse along ita inner edge, the terminal portions of the veins 

 that end on the termen also black, that colour carried along the 

 veins for a perceptible distance inwards from the inner edge of 

 the band. Underside : ground-colour similar. Eore wing : discoidal 

 cell with a slender, transverse, very short sinuous line in the middle 

 and a reniform loop composed of a fine line on the discocellulars, 

 reddish brown; apex with a large, very conspicuous, square reddish- 

 brown patch that posteriorly is produced triangularly downwards 

 and occupies the entire apex ; lastly, a diffuse, irregular, similarly- 

 coloured spot subtornally on the dorsal margin. Hind wing : 

 the markings as in T. hecabe, but reddish, very faint and ill-defined. 

 Antennas, head, thorax and abdomen as in T. hecabe. $ . Similar 

 to the c? , but the terminal black band on the upperside of the 

 hind wing very diffuse. 



Wet-season brood. <5 $ . Upperside : ground-colour of a deeper 

 shade of yellow. Fore wing : markings similar to those of 

 specimens of the dry-season brood, but the excavated portion on 

 the inner edge of the black area squarer and consequently very 

 closely approximating to that in T. hecabe (compare tigs. 60 & 

 64 6). Hind wing : as in the dry-season form, but the terminal 

 band much narrower, not diffuse along its inner edge, but dentated 

 at the veins. Underside : no trace of the conspicuous square 

 brown patch at the apex of the fore wing, otherwise the markings 

 as in the dry-season specimens, only darker and more clearly 

 defined ; all the veins in both fore and hind wings that attain the 

 costal margin in the fore and the terminal in both wings, end each 

 in a small but conspicuous black dot. Antennae, head, thorax and 

 abdomen, and in the d 1 the sex-mark, as in T. hecabe. 



Exp. <? $ 40-48 mm. (1-60-1-&8"). 



Hab. Ceylon ; Southern India : Nilgiri Hills ; Burma ; Tenas- 

 serim ; extending far into the Malayan Subregion. 



This form is quite possibly one of the many varieties of Terias 

 hecabe, but typically the shape of the black terminal markings on 

 the upperside of the fore wing and the large square reddish-brown 

 patch that occupies the whole of the apex on its underside are 

 very distinctive. In the prominence and shape of this latter 

 marking and in the single slender, transverse, short line in the 

 middle of the cell on the underside of the same wing, T. sari 

 approximates very closely to T. andersoni, Moore, but in the 

 latter form the apical patch is inky-black, not reddish-brown. 



T. curiosus, Swinhoe, is an aberration of T. sari, in which the 

 black area on the upperaide of the fore wing is very broad and of 

 more or less even width posteriorly ; the inner edge of the black 

 is very irregular, sinuous and produced dentately inward at more 

 than one point, so that the excavated portion between veins 2 

 and 4 is, so to speak, merged in the highly irregular line of the 

 inner edge. 



