62 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Expanse, (? 9 If incb. 



Habitat. — Western and Central India. 



DiSTRiBUTfON. — The type specimens, described by Dr. A. G. Butler, were taken 

 by Col. 0. Swinhoe in Bombay and Poona. Colonel Swinhoe possesses a co-type 

 of the male Dry form from Mhoiv, taken in Sept., and females taken in Sept. 

 and December; also a male and female from Karachi, both sexes from Ahmednuggur, 

 females taken at Poona in January, February, and December, and a male of the 

 Wet form taken at Hoshangabad in October. We possess specimens received from 

 Col. Swinhoe, as follows ; — Male loet form from Ahmednuggur, male of the Dry 

 form from Karachi, taken in March, males from Poona, December ; Ahmednuggur, 

 and a female from Mhow, taken in January. 



Of our illustrations on Plate 569, fig. 2 is the male Wet form, from 

 Hoshangabad, taken in October, 1886; fig. 2a, male Dry form, from Poona, 2b, the 

 female, from Mhow, taken in JSTovember; 2c, the female of Extreme Dry form, from 

 Ahmednuggur. 



TERIAS ASPHODELUS. 



Plate 569, figs. 3, 3a, S ? ij^^el) ■ 3b, S (D)'i/) ; 3c, ? {Extra Dry) ■ 4, 4a, S ? (^i-?/). 



Terias AspJwdelus, Butler, Proc. Z}ol. Soc. 1SS3, p. 151, pi. 21, fig. 13, S (Dnj). Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 



1884, p. 508, id. 1885, p. 136; id. 1886 ; p 430 ; id. J. Bombay N. H. S. 1887, p. 275. 

 Terias Narcissus, Butler, I. c. p. 151 {Dry var.). 



IFef, /o?-m (fig. 3, 3a, (J ? ). Male and female. Upperside. Foreiriiuj with the 

 black baud, comparatively narrower throughout than in Wet form of SinuJtoei. 

 Hhidwing with slightly narrower band. Underside with the ordinary markings 

 slightly-defined. 



Expanse, <S In), ? 1 rb i"ch. 

 Dry form (fig. 3b, c?). Male and female. Upperside. Foreuing with the band 

 also comparatively narrower than in Dry form of Sivinhoei, its anterior portion 

 more curved, and its lower portion narrow throughout to the posterior angle. 

 Hinchcing with a very slender marginal line and vein tips, or the tips only indicated. 

 Undei'side. Both wings with distinctly-defined brown-edged ordinary marks. 

 Forewing with two cell-marks and a well-defined brown subapical patch. 



Expanse, c? Ifo to Ij^o, ? Iro inch. 



Extreme-Dry form {^g. 2>G, ^). Female. Upperside. i''ore»-('y;<7 with the band 

 similar to the Dry male. Eindivlng with the band slightly more defined. Under.side. 

 Both wings with similar distinctly-defined brownish-edged ordinary marks. 

 Forewing with a brown almost completely-quadrate apical patch. 



Expanse, ? 1^^ inch. 



