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Show 372 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON [June 29, and probably represent the T. cesiope of De Niceville. Major Yerbury says of it, " Terias rotundularis not uncommon at Murree and along the hills to Thundiani in September. T. cesiope apud Swinhoe." I think there must be a slight error in the above note, for Col. Swinhoe knows T. purreea quite well; at the same time he may have labelled the insect in haste. T. cesiope is not known from India. 65. TERIAS HECABE. Papilio hecabe, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 249 (1764). 2 , between Abbottabad and Kala Pani, 25th September, 1885. With this is a male, taken at Bugnoter on the 20th September, and which I think must be a very abnormal specimen of the same species. It wants the black border, and therefore, on the upper surface, resembles T. excavata; certainly, with only one example before me, I do not feel justified in separating it. 66. TERIAS EXCAVATA. Terias excavata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 252. d, Campbellpore, 9th November; 2, Chuttar, 9th October, 1885. This species was mixed up with T. purreea and T. fimbriata. 67. TERIAS VAGANS. Terias vagans, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 357. n. 10. 2, Chuttar, 9th October, 1885. We previously only possessed males of this species; it has been incorrectly named T. lata for Major Yerbury; he says that it is rare, two specimens having been taken at Chuttar on the Murree and Rawal Pindee road. Terias lata is a species in which the apical area of the primaries and whole of secondaries on the under surface are of a bright rusty-reddish colour ; in the male of T. vagans they are lemon-yellow, and in the female of a sericeous creamy-whitish tint; in T. jcegeri they are flesh-tinted in both sexes. 68. TERACOLUS PROTRACTUS. Teracolus protractus, Butler, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 137, n. 37- d 2, Chittar Pahar, Lumbahdun, 2000 feet; 28th November, 1885. The specimens of this species are not perfectly typical, the colouring of the under surface being of a nearly yellow tint instead of flesh-pink ; the third black spot of the primaries, in the male specimens, is expanded so as to reach the inner margin, as in the form from Beloochistan and Kutch ; but the female has three isolated spots as in the type form. " A single specimen, Campbellpore, 29th June, 1885; found commonly in the Chittar Pahar near Lumbahdun, Kala Dilli, &c, at the end of November and beginning of December."-/. TV. Y. |