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numerously brown speckled : hindwing witli the anterior portion of tlie marginal 

 band to the middle of exterior margin as broad as that of the forewing. Underside 

 also paler than in male. 



Expanse Itu to 1^^ inch. 



" Central Province. Hills, 3000 feet ; grass land in forest. Taken on the road 

 from Pusalawe to Rambodde, where they were in numbers by the roadside, and 

 apparently at all seasons. Gregarious. Easily captured " (HidcMson). 



" Neighbourhood of Kandy " (Machwood). 



TERIAS RAMA (Plate 46, Fig. 5, 5a, ^ ? ). 

 Terias Rama, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1872, p. 566. 



Male. Upperside paler yellow than T. Gingala : forewing with a broad brown 

 outer marginal band with the lower inner border acutely sinuous and extending to 

 posterior margin ; cilia brown : hindwing with a very slender marginal band 

 slightly sinuous at the upper end but nearly obsolete at anal angle ; cilia yellow. 

 Female : forewing with the outer band interrupted above the posterior angle : hind- 

 wing with the band broad at the upper end. Underside paler, irrorated with brown 

 scales, and with a marginal row of minute black dots ; the discal area of forewing 

 only being bright yellow ; a slender brown-speckled discocellular streak on both 

 wings : hindwing with a distinct brown dot below costal vein, and two medial discal 

 transverse fascige composed of brown speckles. 



Expanse lA inch. 



Genus CATOPSILIA. 



Catopsilia, Hiibner, Veiz. bek. Schmett. p. 98 (1816); Butler, Lep. Exotica, i. p. 54 (1871). 

 Murtia, Hiibner, I. c. p. 98 (1816). 

 Callidryas (part), Boisduval. 



"Wings broad : forewing subtriangular ; male with a tuft of fine hair near base 

 of posterior margin beneath ; costal vein extending two-thirds the margin ; sub- 

 costal much arched at the base, first branch emitted at more than one-half before 

 end of the cell and extending close alongside the costal, second from end of the eel], 

 third trifid, third and fifth on a foot-stalk at one-third beyond the cell, fourth at one- 

 third before the apex from below the third; discocellulars slightly oblique, both 

 angled inward, radial from their middle ; the middle median at one-fourth, lower at 

 one-half before end of the cell ; submedian slightly waved : hindwing broadly 

 obconical ; male with an oval glandular patch of raised scales above the subcostal 

 vein ; precostal vein very short ; costal bent upward at the precostal ; first subcostal 

 at one-third before end of the cell ; discocellulars very oblique, lower bent near the 

 middle, radial from the angle ; middle median at nearly one-fifth, lower at nearly 

 one-half before end of the cell ; submedian straight, internal slightly curved. Body 



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