42 LEFIDOPTERA INDICA. 



defined. Imago. — Came out on October 14tb, 1860. Habits. Continually flying 

 about the clumps of Cassia Tora. Flight as in other Terias. On the wing 

 in Lucknow, Oudh, the whole year. Common." (Oapt. H. L. Chaumette, MS. 

 Notes.) 



DiSTKiBOTiON. — We possess specimens from Kawi Valley, Kashmir, taken by the 

 late W. S. Atkinson ; Kausali, W. Himalaya ; Maupuri, Punjab, taken by the late 

 C. Home; Kutch ; Bombay; and Mhow, Central India. In Mr. J. H. Leech's 

 Collection are specimens taken at Rajaori, S. Kashmir, 4,000 feet elevation, in 

 September. Mr. P. W. Mackinnon obtained it at " Masuri" (J. Bombay N. H. S. 

 1898, 588). Mr. W. Doherty obtained it at " Bagheswar, Askot, from 3,000 to 

 5,000 feet elevation, Eastern Kumaon" (J. A. S. Bang. 1886, 135). Dr. Felder's 

 types of Santana, which we have recently verified, and now in Mr. W. Eothschild's 

 Collection, were taken at Kaladungi, at the foot of the Kumaon Hills. Capt. 

 Chaumette obtained it and reared the larva in Lucknow, Oudh (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1865, 

 37). Col. C. Swinhoe took it in " Karachi, in July, 1886 " (J. Bombay N. H. S. 

 1887, 275); also at " Poona in June and September, Ahmednuggur in the same 

 months, and in Bombay from July to October" (P. Z. S. 1885, 135), and in "Mhow, 

 C. India, from June to October " {id. 1886, 430). Col. C. T. Bingham has specimens 

 from Jabalpur, C. India. Mr. L. de Niceville records specimens " taken in Karwar, 

 North Kanara District, in October" (J. A. S. Beng. 1900, 252). 



The type specimen of venata, and also that of the male described by Mr. 

 Wallace as that sex of his Formosan species, vagans, are in the British Museum 

 Collection. 



Of our illustrations on Plate 565, figs. 1, la, male of Wet form from Western 

 Himalaya, and lb, the female from Bombay ; figs. 2, 2a, b, male and female Dry 

 form {Fallitana types) from Kutch. 



NIEMULA EAMA. 



Plate 565, figs. 3, 3a, h ^ ^ {Wet) ; 3c, d, g ? {Bry). 



Terias Bama, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 566, ? kl. Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 121, pi. 46, fig. 5, 5a, 



S ? (1881)— Z);-^. 

 Terias Cingala, Moore, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 48; ii-L Lop. of Ceylon, i. p. 120, pi. 46, fig. 4, 



U, Si -Wet. 

 Terias venata et Bama, Hampson, J. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 361. 

 'Terias venata, Watson, J. As. Soc. liengal, 1890, p. 267. do Niceville, J. As. S ic. Bengal, 1S99, 



p. 211. 



Wet form (fig. 3, 3a, b, c? ? ). Male. Upperside yellow. Foreiving with a 

 broader black outer marginal band than in Venata. Eindiuing with a similar narrow 

 outer band, and a costal patch of pale salmon-coloured scales. Underside paler 



