yellow. Foreiving with a lower basal patch of pale salmon-coloured scales ; also a 

 faintly defined discocellular mark. Hindtving with two very faintly indicated 

 transverse discal sinuous dusky squamous streaks, and a discocellular mark. 



Female. Upperside paler and duller coloured, the basal areas irrorated with 

 minute dark scales. Foreiving with the outer band similar, but more distinctly 

 dentated posterioi'ly, on its inner edge. Hindwing with the outer band much 

 broader anteriorly than in male. Underside with similar indistinct ordinary 

 markings on the hindwing as in male. 



Expanse, c? Ij^o *« ^lol ? '^ro inch. 



Dry form (fig. 3c, d, (? ?). Male. Upperside. Foreiving with the outer band 

 more distinctly dentated than in Wet. Eindiuing with the outer band somewhat 

 narrower ; salmon-coloured patch similar to Wet. Underside. Foreiving with similar 

 salmon-coloured patch as in Wet, and hindwing with more distinct transverse discal 

 sinuous streaks. 



Female. Upperside. Foreiving with the band shai'ply dentated and broken at 

 its posterior end. Hindwing with the band comparatively narrower than in Wet 

 form, and incomplete posteriorly. Underside with the transverse streaks on 

 hindwing, as in male, distinct. 



Expanse, c? l^^o, 9 Iro to Ifo inch. 



Habitat. — Ceylon ; S. India. 



Distribution. — In Ceylon, Capt. Hutchison records it from the " Central 

 Province Hills, 3,000 feet, in grass land and forest. Taken on the road to 

 Rambodde, where they were in numbers by the roadside, and apparently at all 

 seasons. Gregarious. Easily captured. Mr. F. M. Mackwood obtained it in the 

 neighbourhood of Kandy " (Lep. Ceyl. i. 121). Dr. N, Manders obtained it 

 " common in open country between 2,000 and 3,000 feet elevation " (J. A. S. Beng. 

 1899, 211). Mr. G. F. Hampson obtained it in the "Nilgiris! {I.e. J8SS, 361). 

 We possess the Ceylon type specimens, and also both sexes from the Nilgiris, 

 and Trevandrum in Travancore. Capt. E. Y. Watson obtained it in Madras in 

 July" {I.e. 267). 



Of our illustrations on Plate 565, figs. 3, 3a, b, male and female of Gingala, the 

 Wet form, and figs. 3c, d of the Dry form, Rama. 



NIRMULA SIEEIMA. 



Plate 565, fig. 4, 4a, b, cJ ? . 



Terias venata, Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 414. 

 Terias Bama, de Niceville, Sikkim Gaz. 1894, p. 167. 



Male. Upperside. Foreiving with an outer black band similar to that in male 



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