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the neighbourhood of Calcutta” (J. A. S. Beng. 1885, 50). Col. C. Swinhoe has 
received numerous specimens from the Khasias (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 308). Mr. EL'. J. 
Elwes sajT-s it is “ common in Sikkim, and extends from the Terai to at least 
10,000 feet elevation ” (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 412). Mr. L. de Niceville also says it is 
“ common in Sikkim, and flies all the year round at low elevations, it being only 
stragglers that extend their flight to so great an elevation as 10,000 feet” (Sikkim 
Gaz. 1894, 167). In Burma, it was obtained by Col. C. II. E. Adamson. Capt. 
E. Y. Watson obtained it “ during the Chin-Lushai Exped. of 1889-90, at Pokoko 
and Pauk in September, and at Tilin from November to May ” (J. Bomb. N. H. S. 
1891, 51), and also tf6 m the Chin Hills the dr?/-sea son form occurred commonly in 
April, and the rainy season form in May and June, these were noticed only up to 
3,500 feet” (id. lx . 1897, 669). Mr. O. Limb or g obtained it cc on the road from 
Moulmein to Meetan, at Hatseiga, and Paboga, Upper Tenasserim” (P. Z. S. 1878, 
836). Dr. J. Anderson obtained it in Mergui, “ in December and March” (J. Linn. 
S. Z. 1886, 46). 
Of our illustrations of T. Hecabe , on Plate 567, figs. 1, la represent a male and 
female Met form from Simla ; lb, c, male and female Wet form from Karachi, 1, d, e, 
male and female Wet, also from Karachi, taken in August; figs, 1, f, g, male and 
female Dry form from Belgaum and Ahmednuggur, both taken in October ; figs. 1, 
h, i, male and female Dry form (types of contubernalis) from Mergui; fig. 2 is 
copied from the Karachi figure of T. euriosa . 
TERIAS PURREEA. 
Plate 568, figs. 1, la, $ , lb, $ (Wet) ; 2, 2a, b, <y 9 (Dry). 
Terias Purreea , Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 252 ,$(Dri/)- Butler, id . lx. 1886, p. 371. 
Wet form (fig. 1, la, b, c? ?). Male. Upperside. Forewing with the black outer 
band narrower throughout than in local Wet, form of Hecabe, the lower portion 
small, and its inner-edge inwardly oblique and indented. Hind/tving with a slightly- 
defined slender .marginal dentated-line. Underside. Both wings with ordinary 
marks very indistinctly defined. Forewing with two cell-marks. 
Female. Upperside paler. Foreiving with the band similar to the male. 
Hindwing with the marginal line slightly indicated only by the vein tips. Underside 
as in the male. 
Expanse, S Ey 0 - to lyo ; ? 1^ to 2 inches. 
Dry form (fig. 2, 2a, $, 2b, $). Male. Upperside. Forewing with the 
marginal band similar to Wet form, except that it is less angular at the upper 
median, and less indented on its lower inner-edge. Bindiving with a slender 
marginal dentated line. Underside. Both wings with distinctly-defined ordinary 
marks. Forewing with a prominent brown subapical patch, two cell-marks, and also 
