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band mucli less prominent, its apical and lower portions being more or less speckled 

 with wLite scales, and its inner portion (in extreme dry specimens narrower, as in our 

 jlr/ure f) ; the subapical white spots less defined, and the upper three more or 

 less elongated ; basal area also less grey-scaled. Ilindwing with the marginal 

 dentate spots much less defined, these being speckled and narrow, showing only at 

 the end of the upper veinlets or are obsolescent, and in extreme dry specimens (fig. f.) 

 absent. Underside. Forewinc/ with the subapical band much less defined, narrower, 

 the basal portion more or loss obsolescent, and in extreme dry specimens (our fig. ]g) 

 obsolete, the apical area and hindwiug paler yellow tinted. 



Female. Upperside. Foreivincj with the outer band somewhat narrower than 

 in wet form, and less intensely black, five subapical white spots being present ; the 

 basal grey area also narrower. Eindioinci with narrower marginal black dentated 

 band. Underside. Forewing similar to the ivet form, except that the black band is 

 much narrower and less black. Hmdwing very faintlj^ tinged with pale yellow 

 throughout. 



Expanse, 6 2^^^ to 2^^,, ? 2/\, inches. 



Habitat. — South India. 



DiSTRiUDTiON. — This species is confined to South India. The type specimens 

 were obtained by the late Mr. S. N. Ward at Kunur, Nilgiris, Mr. G. F. Hampson 

 records it from the Nilgiris (J. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, 362). Llessrs. Davidson and 

 Aitken obtained " a few specimens, chiefly in the Southern parts of the Kanara 

 District " (J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1896, 574). 



Of our illustrations on Plate 552, fig. 1, la, b, c, are from a male and female of 

 the Wef-scafon form, Id, e, from a male, and h, i, from a female of the Dry form ; 

 fig. If, g, fiom a male of the cvlreme dry form from S. India, this latter specimen 

 being erroneously figured in Lcp. Ceylon i. pi. 50, fig. 3, as the male of Neombo. 



CATOPHAGA ADAMSONI. 



Plate 551, fig. 2, 2a c?- 21', c ? (TVtf-senKon Brood) ; 2(1, e c? {li-'trcme .1 ij Brooil). 

 ire/-sm.s«n Bi;ioJ (Pluto .'',51, fig. 2, 2a S, -b, c ? ). 



Male. Upperside similar to the S. Indian C. ]VardiL Forewing comparatively 

 more obtuse at the apex than in the male of that species, the apical band somewhat 

 narrower posteriorly, its anterior inner portion also narrower, and its inner costal 

 lortion paler grey-scaled, the four subapical white spots more inwardly positioned ; 

 basal area also less broadly grey-scaled. ITiiuhriiig with the outer marginal row of 

 black, disconnected, well-formed dentate spots. 



Underside. Similar to trrt form of ('. Wardii, except that, on the forewing, the 

 suba]iical black band is incomplete and ill-defined. 



