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J. As. Soc. Beng. 1886, p. 135. cle Niceville, J. As. Soc. Beng. 1900, p. 252, Mackinnon, 
J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1898, p. 588. 
Terias venata (pt.), Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1898, p. 64. 
Terias vagans (pt.), Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 357, (? (nec $ ). 
Terias Santana, Felder, Keise Novara, Lep. p. 211 £ $ (1865). 
Terias Pallitana, Moore, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 48, <? $ (Dry form). 
Wet form (fig, 1, la, be??). Male. Upperside pale yellow, basal areas slightly 
irrorated with grey-black scales. Foreiving with a broad vinescent-black outer 
marginal band, which curves from middle of the costa to upper median, below which 
it is sinuated to lower median* its posterior end being deeply excavated to the angle. 
Hindwing with a distinctly defined black slender complete band; and a salmon- 
coloured patch of matted scales between the costal and subcostal vein. Underside 
paler yellow, unmarked, except that a very faint indication of marginal dots and a 
small upper discocellular streak on both wings, and a dot above the cell and discal 
transverse streaks on hindwing. Foreiving with a subbasal oval patch of compactly 
matted salmon-coloured scales, which extend below and partly above the basal 
portion of the median vein. 
Female. Upperside paler yellow. Foreiving with the outer band somewhat 
broader. Hindwing with the band broader anteriorly and complete ; no costal 
patch. Underside as in male. No subbasal patch of salmon-coloured scales. 
Expanse, c? ? 1^ to 1^ inch. 
Fry form (fig. 2, 2a, be?? ) = Pallitana. Male. Upperside. Foreiving with the 
band similar to the Wet form, its posterior end more excavated. Underside with 
the ordinary markings more apparent. 
Female. Upperside. Foreiving with the posterior end of the band obsolescent. 
Hindwing with the band posteriorly narrower and more or less broken. Underside 
as in the male. 
Expanse, c? lf 0 to 1 inch. 
Habitat. —Western Himalayas ; Western and Central India. 
Life History. Larva. 6: After first moult . One-fourth of an inch long; 
colour grass-green, with a pale yellowish lateral line ; surface thickly covered with 
transverse bands of longish green pyramidal cilisB; abdomen green ; prolegs green; 
thoracic and anal legs green ; head green, covered with black raised spots; stigmatm 
yellow and shining. After last moult. Three-fourths of an inch long; cylindrical 
and rough; colour and general description same as at first moult. Habits slow. 
Feeds on the oval-leaved Cassia (C. Tora). Pupa* Changed into chrysalis October 
7th, 1860. Succinctse ; darkish green; rather more than one-third of an inch long, 
pointed at each end; back very swollen; segments slightly marked with yellow 
stripes transversely, and black dots here and there; dorsal line dark green and well 
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