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black marginal band of lialf-an-inch in width and which is slightly dentated on the 

 veins. Female slightly paler yellow ; the marginal band on hindwing paler and 

 somewhat broader. Underside of both sexes of a paler tint : forewing with two 

 short slender black discoidal streaks, a discocellular mark, and black marginal points 

 to all the veins : hindwing with a single similar discoidal mark, one above and 

 another below the cell, a discocellular mark, and a discal ill-defined and indistinct 

 zigzag speckled band ; a marginal row of black dots. 



Expanse 1^ to If inch. 



Larva cylindrical ; pale green. Pupa purplish-brown ; head pointed, thorax 

 convex, wing-caves tumid. 



" Feeds on Leguminosae" (Thwaites). 



" Universal and at all times. One of the commonest insects in the Island " 

 (Hutchison). 



" Kandy and Galle. Very common" ( Wade). 



"Common everywhere; lower and middle ranges, and all the year round. 

 Larva feeds on the Madras thorn" (Machvood). 



TERIAS SIMULATA (Plate 45, Fig. 2, 2 a, b, ^ $). 



Both sexes of smaller size and paler in colour than T. Hecabe ; outer band on 

 forewing similar but acutely scalloped, the band on hindwing in both sexes much 

 narrower. Underside with the markings more distinct in the male, and in the female 

 they are slightly reddish, the forewing in the latter sex also having a reddish sub- 

 apical streak. 



Expanse l-ny inch. 



TERIAS HECABEOIDES (Plate 45, Fig. 3, 3 a, 5, <J 2 )• 

 Terias Hecdbeoides, Menetries, Catal. Mus. Petr. Lep. i. p. 85, pi. 2, fig. 2 (1855), $. 



Male. Differs from T. Hecabe in the comparatively broader band on both 

 wings. In the female the bands are conspicuously broader, that on the forewing 

 having the middle excavated portion narrow and more oblique, the band on the hind- 

 wing is also more diffused and shows more prominent vein streaks. Underside 

 similar to T. Hecabe. 



Expanse, S 1^, 9 If inch. 



TERIAS CITRINA (Plate 45, Fig. 4, 4a, 9 )• 



Male and female. Upperside paler lemon-yellow in both sexes. Male with 



the bands similar to but comparatively broader than in T. rotundalis. Female with 



the outer band on forewing broad and somewhat like that of T. Hecabe, but with the 



portion at the posterior angle outwardly oblique; the band on the hindwing is also 



