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Habitat. — Western and Central India. 



Distribution. — The type specimens, in the British Museum Collection, were 

 obtained at " Mhow and Depalpur, in December and February" {I.e. 1883, 151). 

 Col. C. Swinhoe records it from " Poona, taken in January, February, March, 

 April, and December, and at Mhow in December and April" {I.e. 1885, 136 ; 1886, 

 430), In Col. Swinhoe's Collection is a male of wet form from Mahableshwar, taken 

 in May; also co-types of Dry form, taken at Mhow, in JsTovember and February, also 

 males taken at Kai'achi in February, Poona in January, Ahmednuggur, June and 

 November, and at Alibagh in June. We possess a female of Wet form — (locality 

 not stated) ; males of the Dry form, taken at Poona in December, March, and 

 April; Mhow, December, and from Ahmednuggur. Col. Svvinhoe obtained it in 

 " Karachi from November to March " {I.e. 1887, 275). 



Of our illustrations on Plate 569, fig. 8 is the male Wet form from Mahablesh- 

 war ; 3a, the female of Wet form; 8b, male Dry form, from Poona, 3c, female of 

 Extreme Dry form from Ahmednuggur; figs. 4, 4a, male and female, var. Narcissus, 

 from Mhow and Poona. 



TERIAS DAVIDSONII. 



Plate 570, figs. 1, la, S ? {Wei), lb, c, c? ? {Intermediafp), d, e, <J ? (Dry), f, g, <? ? (Extra-Bnj). 



Terias Silhetana, Davidson and Aitken, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Sou. 1896, p. 571, pi. 6, fig. 6, 6a, 



larva and pvpa. de Niceville, Jouni. As. Soc. Bengal, 1900, p. 252 (Extra-Bri/ form). 

 Terias Hecabe (pt.), Hampson, J. As. Soc. Beng. 1888, p. 361. 



Wet form (fig. 1, la). Both sexes larger than the local Wet form of 2\ Hecabe. 

 Male. Uppei'side. Foreiring with the broad black outer marginal band having the 

 lower end broader and shorter, more inwardly irregular, and its inner-edge curving 

 outward to the posterior angle. Eindwvug with a broader black outer-marginal 

 band, excavated on its inner edge. Underside. Foreiving with the ordinary shghtly- 

 defined discocellular mark and three cell-marks. Hindtving with slightly-defined 

 ordinary markings. 



Female. Upperside. Foreiving with broader outer-marginal band than in 

 male, its lower inner-edge extending obliquely outward ; the discocellular mark of 

 the underside distinctly visible. Eindiving with a much broader marginal sinuous- 

 edged band than in Hecabe. Underside as in male. 



Expanse, (? 2, ? 2^ inches. 



Intermediate form (fig. lb, c.) Male. Upperside. Foreiving with the black 

 outer band somewhat narrower than in typical Wet form, its lower end shorter, 

 and slightly outwardly- oblique. Hindiving with narrow black marginal band. 



