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J. As. Soc. Beng. 1886, p. 135. de Niceville, J. As. Soc. Ben g. 1900, p. 252. Mackinnon, 



J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1898, p. 588. 

 Terias venata (pt.), Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1898, p. 64. 

 Terias vagans (pt.), Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 357, c? {nee ? ). 

 Terias Santana, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. p. 211 ^ ? (1865). 

 Terias Pallitana, Moore, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 48, c? ? {Bnj form). 



Wet form (Sg. 1, la, be??). Male. Upperside pale yellow, basal areas slightly 

 irrorated with grey-black scales. Forewing with a broad vinescent-black outer 

 marginal band, which curves from middle of the costa to upper median, below which 

 it is sinuated to lower median, its posterior end being deeply excavated to the angle. 

 Hindwhig \fiW\ a distinctly defined black slender complete band; and a salmon- 

 coloured patch of matted scales between the costal and subcostal vein. Underside 

 paler yellow, unmarked, except that a very faint indication of marginal dots and a 

 small upper discocellular streak on both wings, and a dot above the cell and discal 

 transverse streaks on hiudwing. Foreioing with a subbasal oval patch of compactly 

 matted salmon-coloured scales, which extend below and partly above tlie basal 

 portion of the median vein. 



Female. Upperside paler yellow. Forewing with the outer band somewhat 

 broader. Hindtving with the band broader anteriorly and complete ; no costal 

 patch. Underside as in male. No subbasal patch of salmon-coloured scales. 



Expanse, <J ? l^^o to l^^o ioch. 



Dry form {^g.2,'2,-A,h S 'i)-=Pallitana. Male. Upperside. Forewing vf\t\\ the 

 band similar to the "Wet form, its posterior end more excavated. Underside with 

 the ordinary markings more apparent. 



Female. Upperside. Forewing with the posterior end of the band obsolescent. 

 Ilindwing with the band posteriorly narrower and more or less broken. Underside 

 as in the male. 



Expanse, S l^^o to l^^o, ? Iro inch. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas ; Western and Central India. 



Life History. Larva. ''After first moult. One-fourth of an inch long ; 

 colour grass-green, with a pale yellowish lateral line ; surface thickly covered with 

 transverse bands of longish green pyramidal ciliae ; abdomen green ; prolegs green ; 

 thoracic and anal legs green ; head green, covered with black raised spots ; stigmatge 

 yellow and shining. After last moult. Three-fourths of an inch long; cylindrical 

 and rough ; colour and general description same as at first moult. Habits slow. 

 Feeds on the oval-leaved Cassia (C. Tora). Pupa. Changed into chrysalis October 

 7th, 1860. SucciuctEe ; darkish green; rather more than one-third of an inch long, 

 pointed at each end ; back very swollen ; segments slightly marked with yellow 

 stripes transversely, and black dots here and there ; dorsal line dark green and well 



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