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ME. F. MOOEE ON THE LEPIDOPTEEA 



sinuous mark within the cell situated somewhat nearer the base, 

 the subbasal spot (present in other species) being absent ; fringe 

 brown. Female. Smaller : much paler sulphur-yellow ; black 

 costal band on fore wing narrower ; marginal band as in the 

 male ; band on the hind wing broader. Underside as in male. 

 Expanse, 3 $ to l^inch. 



Hah. Sullivan Island (Jan.) ; Elphinstone Island (March). 



Teeias Kana, n. sp. (Plate IY. fig. 9, 3 .) 



Male. Nearest to T. Andersonii. Upperside paler sulphur- 

 yellow ; the marginal band with the base of the sinus inclined 

 obliquely inward and upward, and dentate at the middle ; the 

 upper edge of the band concave but not dentate, the lower 

 portion broader and its inner edge inclined inward ; hind wing 

 with a decidedly broader marginal band. Underside with fer- 

 ruginous-brown marks ; the discocellular mark on both wings 

 very broad and triangularly-dentate ; the subapical patch on fore- 

 wing broader ; the siuuous mark and subbasal spot within the 

 cell both present ; friuge yellow. Female. Upperside of the 

 same tint as the male ; the band on fore wing the same shape ; 

 band on hind wing with dentated inner edge. Underside as in 

 male. 



Expanse, 3 $ to 1^ inch. 



Hah. Mergui (Jan.) ; Thapo and Timiki, King Island (Jan. 

 and Feb.) ; Elphinstone Island (March). 



This comes nearest to the Ceylonese T. simulata. 



Remarks on the above-named Terias. — T. Andersonii, Kana, 

 contuhernalis, patruelis, fraterna, and merguiana, so far as I yet 

 know, are quite localized in their habitat. No specimens of these 

 forms are either in the British Museum collection or in my owd, 

 nor does Mr. Distant refer to either of them in his 'Rhopalocera 

 Malayana.' The four last-named may possibly be ultimately 

 proved to be varietal forms of T. hecaheoides ; but as no such 

 marked specimens as here described, so far as my examinations 

 have extended, occur in any of the other districts where T. heca- 

 heoides is found, and until they are so proved, by hr 'ceding, to bo 

 varietal only, I prefer treating them as distinct forms. T.sodalis 

 is found also in the Malay peninsula; T. silhetana extends north- 

 ward to Assam ; and T. hecaheoides has a wide range northward, 

 and southward to the Malay Peninsula. 



IXZAI cttrtna, Moore, P. Z. & 1878, p. 837, 3 . 

 Thaing, King Island (Feb.). 



