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LEPID0PTEPA INDICA. 
common at Khorda in Orissa, Lower Bengal” (List, p. 14). Mr. L. de Niceville 
obtained it in 6s the neighbourhood of Calcutta ” (J. A. S. Beng. 1885, 50), and 
records it as being C£ found in Sikkim only at the foot of the Hills, being rare almost 
throughout the year 55 (Sikkim Gaz. 1894, 167). Col. C. T. Bingham has specimens 
from Shillong, Assam. The British Museum possess a specimen taken in Bhotan 
by Mr. G. C, Dudgeon. 
Of our illustrations on Plate 564, figs. 2, 2a, male wet form from Simla, and 
2b, c, a female from the Nilgiris; fig. 2d, e, male and female types , the intermediate 
form from Calcutta ; figs. 2f, g, male and female dry form, from Poona. 
Indo-Malayan Species. — Ilibreeta Drona (Terias Drona, Hors field, Catal. Lep. 
Mus. East India Compy., p. 137, pi. 1, fig. 13, c? (1829). Boisduval, Spec. Gen. 
Lep. 1, p. 675 (1836). Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1886, p. 214. Terias Libythea (pt.), 
de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc 3 Bengal, 1895, p. 494. Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1898, 
p. 58. Habitat . Java, Sumatra. 
Iiihreeta Fruhstorferi (Terias Libythea, Frulistorfer, Deals. Ent. Zeit. 1902, 
p. 301; id. Soc. Ent. 1903, p. 42. Habitat . Tonkin; Annam ; Siam. 
Genus NIRMULA. 
Terias (part), Boisduval; Doubleday; Butler; Moore. 
Terias (sect. B), Semper, Eeise Phil. Lep. p. 252 (1891). Watson, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1891, 
pp. 509, 514. 
Terias (sect. II. pt.), Butler, Ann N. H. 1898, p. 63. 
Male. Foreiving subtriangular, somewhat more pointed at the apex than in 
genus Eibreeta . Underside of foreiving with a large subbasal oval secondary sexual 
patch of compactly-matted salmon-coloured scales, which extend below and partly 
above the basal portion of the median vein also an ordinary basal elongated appressed 
patch of glossy-white scales extending above and below basal portion of the 
submedian vein. Hindwing above with a similar salmon-coloured patch of matted 
scales in the basal interspace of the costal and subcostal vein, the costal border also 
being glossy-white scaled. 
Type. —N. Venata. 
NIRMULA VENATA. 
Plate 565, figs. 1, la, b, $ ? (Wet) ; 2, 2a, b, $ $ (Dry). 
Terias Venata, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Compy., 1, p. 65,' pi. 2a, fig. 2^ (1857). Wallace, 
Trans. Eot. Soc. 1867, p. 320. Chaumette, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1865, p. 37. Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 1885, p. 135; id. lx. 1886, p. 430; id. J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1887, p. 275. Doherty, 
* Not below the submedian vein , as stated by Watson, lx. p. 509. 
