40 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



"common at Kliorda in Orissa, Lower Bengal" (List, p. 14). Mr. L. de Xiceville 

 obtained it in "the neiglibourliood of Calcutta" (J. A. S. Beng. 1885, 50), and 

 I'ecords it as being " found in Sikkim only at tlie foot of the Hills, being rare almost 

 throughout the year" (Sikkim Gaz. 1894, 167). Col. 0. T. Bingbam bas specimens 

 from Shillong, Assam. The Britisb Museum possess a specimen taken in Bhotan 

 by Mr. G. C, Dudgeon. 



Of our illustrations on Plate 564, figs. 2, 2a, male wet form from Simla, and 

 2b, c, a female from the Nilgiris; fig. 2d, e, male and female types, the intermediate 

 form from Calcutta ; figs. 2f, g, male and female d.ry form, from Poona. 



Indo-Malayan Species. — ■Kibreeta Drona (Terias Drona, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. 

 Mus. East India Compy., p. 137, pi. 1, fig. 13, <? (1829). Boisduval, Spec. Gen. 

 Lep. 1, p. 675 (1836). Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1886, p. 214. Terias Libythea (pt.), 

 de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 494. Butler, Ann. ISTat. Hist. 1898, 

 p. 58. Habitat. Java, Sumatra. 



Kibreeta Frulistorferi (Terias Libythea, Fruhstorfer, Deuts. Ent. Zeit. 1902, 

 p. 301 ; id. Soc. Ent. 1903, p. 42. Habitat. Tonkin; Aunam ; Siam. 



Genus NIRMULA. 



Terias (part), Boisduval; Doubleday; Butler; Moore. 



Terias (sect. B), Semper, Reise Phil. Lep. p. 252 (1891). Watson, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. lS9i, 



pp. 509, 514. 

 Terias (sect. H. pt.), Butler, Ann N. H. 1898, p. 63. 



Male. Forewing subtriangular, somewhat more pointed at the apex than in 

 genus Kibreeta. Underside oi foreiving with a large subbasal oval secondary sexual 

 patch of compactly-matted salmon-coloured scales, which extend below and partly 

 above the basal portion of the median vein ;* also an ordinary basal elongated appressed 

 patch of glossy-white scales extending above and below basal portion of the 

 submedian vein. Hindwing above witb a similar salmon-coloured patch of matted 

 scales in the basal interspace of the costal and subcostal vein, the costal border also 

 being glossy-white scaled. 



Type. — N. Venata. 



NIRMULA VENATA. 



Plato 565, figs. 1, la, b, c? ? (TFe/) ; 2, 2a, b, (^ ? (Dry). 



Terias Venata, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Compy., 1, p. 65, pi. 2a, fig. 2 c? (1857). Wallace, 

 Trans. Eot. Soc. 1867, p. 320. Chauniette, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1865, p. 37. Swinhoe, Proe. Zool. 

 Soc. 188.5, p. 135; id. I.e. 1886, p. 430; id. J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1887, p. 275. Dolierty, 



♦ Not heloto the submedian vein, as stated by Watson, I.e. p. 509. 



