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LEP ID OPT ERA INDICA. 
defined. Imago.— Came out on October 14th, 1860. Habits. Continually flying 
about the clumps of Cassia Tom. Flight as in other Terms. On the wing 
in Lucknow, Oudh, the whole year. Common.” (Capt. H. L. Chaumette, MS. 
Notes.) 
Distribution. —We possess specimens from Kawi Valley, Kashmir, taken by the 
late W. S. Atkinson; Kausali, W. Himalaya; Manpuri, Punjab, taken by the late 
C. Horne; Kutch; Bombay; and Mhow, Central India. In Mr. J. H. Leech’s 
Collection are specimens taken at Rajaori, S. Kashmir, 4,000 feet elevation, in 
September. Mr. P. W. Mackinnon obtained it at “ Masuri” (J. Bombay N. H. S. 
1898, 588). Mr. W. Doherty obtained it at “ Bagheswar, Askot, from 3,000 to 
5,000 feet elevation, Eastern Kumaon ” (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 135). Dr. Felder’s 
types of Santana, which we have recently verified, and now in Mr. W. Rothschild’s 
Collection, were taken at Kaladungi, at the foot of the Kumaon Hills. Capt. 
Chaumette obtained it and reared the larva in Lucknow, Oudh (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1865, 
37). Col. C. Swinhoe took it in “Karachi, in July, 1886” (J. Bombay N. H. S. 
1887, 275); also at “Poona in June and September, Ahmednuggur in the same 
months, and in Bombay from July to October” (P. Z. S. 1885, 135), and in “Mhow, 
C. India, from June to October ” (id. 1886, 430). Col. C. T. Bingham has specimens 
from Jabalpur, C. India. Mr. L. de Niceville records specimens “ taken in Karwar, 
North Kanara District, in October” (J. A. S. Beng. 1900, 252). 
The type specimen of venata, and also that of the male described by Mr. 
Wallace as that sex of his Formosan species, varjans, are in the British Museum 
Collection. 
Of our illustrations on Plate 565, figs. 1, la, male of Wet form from Western 
Himalaya, and lb, the female from Bombay ; figs. 2, 2a, b, male and female Dry 
form ( Pallitana types) from Kutch. 
NIRMULA RAMA, 
Plate 565, figs. 3, 3a, b $ $ ( Wet ); 3c, d, $ $ ( Dry ). 
Terms Bama, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 566, $ id. Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 121, pi. 46, fig. 5, 5a, 
<? ? (1881)— Dry. 
Terias Cingala, Moore, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1877^ p. 48; id. Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 120, pi. 46, fig. 4, 
4a, $ $ — Wet. 
Terias venatci et Bama , Hampson, J. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 361. 
Terias venata, Watson, J. As. Soc. Bengal, 1890, p. 267. de Niceville, J. As. Soc. 
p. 211. 
Bengal, 1899, 
Wet form (fig. 3, 3a, b, S ?). Male. Upperside yellow. Forewing with a 
broader black outer marginal band than in Venata. Hindiving with a similar narrow 
outer band, and a costal patch of pale salmon-coloured scales. Underside paler 
