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LEPIDOPTERA IND1CA. 
Expanse, <S 9 If inch. 
Habitat. —Western and Central India. 
Distribution. —The type specimens, described by Dr. A. Gr. Butler, were taken 
by Col. C. Swinhoe in Bombay and Poona. Colonel Swinhoe possesses a co4ijpe 
of the male Dry form from Mhow, taken in Sept., and females taken in Sept, 
and December; also a male and female from Karachi, both sexes from Ahmednuggur, 
females taken at Poona in January, February, and December, and a male of the 
Wet form taken at Hoshangabad in October. We possess specimens received from 
Col. Swinhoe, as follows :—Male wet form from Ahmednuggur, male of the Dry 
form from Karachi, taken in March, males from Poona, December; Ahmednuggur, 
and a female from Mhow, taken in January. 
Of our illustrations on Plate 569, fig. 2 is the male Wet form, from 
Hoshangabad, taken in October, 1886; fig. 2a, male Dry form, from Poona, 2b, the 
female, from Mhow, taken in November; 2c, the female of Extreme Dry form, from 
Ahmednuggur. 
TERIAS ASPHODELUS. 
Plate 569, figs. 3, 3a, $ ? (Wet) • 3b, g (Dry); 3e, $ ( Extra Dry); 4, 4a, g $ (Dry). 
Terms Asphodelus, Butler, Proc. Zx>l. Soc. 1883, p. 151, pi. 21, fig. 13, g (Dry). Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 
1884, p. 508, id. 1885, p. 13(5; id. 1886 ; p 430; id. J. Bombay N. H. S. 1887, p. 275. 
Ter Las Narcissus, Butler, l. a. p. 151 (Dry var.). 
Wet form (fig. 3, 3a, $). Male and female. Upperside. Forewing with the 
black band comparatively narrower throughout than in Wet form of Swinhoei. 
Hindwing with slightly narrower band. Underside with the ordinary markings 
slightly-defined. 
Expanse, <S 1^, ¥ l x - 0 inch. 
Dry form (fig. ob, <J). Male and female. Upperside. Forewing with the band 
also comparatively narrower than in Dry form of Swinhoei , its anterior portion 
more curved, and its lower portion narrow throughout to the posterior angle. 
Rindicing with a very slender marginal line and vein tips, or the tips only indicated. 
Underside. Both wings with distinctly-defined brown-edged ordinary marks. 
Foreiving with two cell-marks and a well-defined brown subapical patch. 
Expanse, d 1 ^ to 1 /’q, ? l x - 0 inch. 
Extreme-Dry form (fig. 3c, ?). Female. Upperside. Forewing with the band 
similar to the Dry male. Rindwing with the band slightly more defined. Underside. 
Both wings with similar distinctly-defined brownish-edged ordinary marks. 
Foreiving with a brown almost completely-quad rate apical patch. 
Expanse, ¥ 1^ inch. . 
