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yellow. Forewivg with, a lower basal patch of pale salmon-coloured scales; also a 
faintly defined discocellular mark. Hindwing with two very faintly indicated 
transverse discal sinuous dusky squamous streaks, and a discocellular mark. 
Female. Upperside paler and duller coloured, the basal areas irrorated with 
minute dark scales. Forewing with the outer band similar, but more distinctly 
dentated posteriorly, on its inner edge. Hind-wing with the outer band much 
broader anteriorly than in male. Underside with similar indistinct ordinary 
markings on the hindwing as in male. 
Expanse, 3 1 ^ to 1 & ; ? 2^ 0 inch. 
Dry form (fig. 8c, d, 3 ¥). Male. Upperside. Forewing with the outer band 
more distinctly dentated than in Wet. Hindwing with the outer band somewhat 
narrower; salmon-coloured patch similar to Wet. Underside. Forewing with similar 
salmon-coloured patch as in Wet, and hindwing with more distinct transverse discal 
sinuous streaks. 
Female. Upperside. Forewing with the band sharply dentated and broken at 
its posterior end. Hindwing with the band comparatively narrower than in Wet 
form, and incomplete posteriorly. Underside with the transverse streaks on 
hindwing, as in male, distinct. 
Expanse, 3 1&, 9 In, to 1$, inch. 
Habitat. —Ceylon; S. India. 
Distribution. —In Ceylon, Capt. Hutchison records it from the “ Central 
Province Hills, 3,000 feet, in grass land and forest. Taken on the road to 
Rambodde, where they were in numbers by the roadside, and apparently at all 
seasons. Gregarious. Easily captured. Mr. F. M. Mackwood obtained it in the 
neighbourhood of Kandy” (Lep. Ceyl. i. 121). Dr. N. Manders obtained it 
“ common in open country between 2,000 and 3,000 feet elevation ” (J. A. S. Beng. 
1899, 211). Mr. G. F. Hampson obtained it in the “Nilgiris! ( l.e . 1888, 361). 
We possess the Ceylon type specimens, and also both sexes from the Nilgiris, 
and Trevandrum in Travancore. Capt. E. Y. Watson obtained it in Madras in 
July ” (l.c. 267). 
Of our illustrations on Plate 565, figs. 3, 3a, b, male and female of Gingala, the 
Wet form, and figs. 3c, d of the Dry form, Rama. 
NIEMULA SIKKIMA. 
Plate 565, fig, 4, 4a, b, $ ? . 
Terias venata, Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 414. 
Terias Bama , de Niceville, Sikkim Gaz. 1894, p. 167. 
Male. Upperside. Forewing with an outer black band similar to that in male 
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