TERACOLUS. 17 



Habitat. — Nortli-Western India. 



SiND. — Larkhana, July [Mus. C. SwitiJioe et W. Jlothscliild) ; Sukkur, January 

 (C Sivinlioe ; Mus. Brit.; fi/pe of T. rorux); Hydrabad {^Im. C. Swinhoe) ; Karachi 

 [Mks. C. Swinhoe); Hubb River, 25 miles from Karachi (C. Swinhoe; Mus. Brit.); 

 Bhooj [Mus. C. Swinhoe). 



GuzERAT. — {Mus. J. Davidson et IV. Rothschild) ; Deesa {Mas. TF. Rothschild). 



KuTCH. — {Mus. Brit.). 



Punjab. — Wurzeerabad (Cc;^. Hearsey ; Mus. Brit.; type of species); Barrackpur 

 {Gen. Hearsey ; Mus. Brit. ; type of T. ochreipennis) ; Cliitta Pahar and Campbellpur 

 {Col. Yerbury; Mus. Brit.; Butler, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 355); Kandesh (/. Dacidsoti). 



Mr. J. Davidson writes to me : " In the same village in Kandesh where I met with 

 T, amatus, I found a butterfly of this type abundant, but even there it was restricted 

 to one hedge, which no doubt contained its food-plant. I never saw the butterfly 

 elsewhere except on the border between Kathiawar and Guzerat, where it swarmed 

 in November and December 1892. In both places I found specimens in which tlie 

 lowest black spot on the outer angle of the fore-wing underneath extended below the 

 sub-median nervure. With regard to "Section T>." {T. vestalis ami T. puellaris, cf. 

 Watson, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. viii. pp. 520, 521) I can only make out one 

 species. 



Dr. Butler makes the following remarks : " Occurs from Kutch, to Karachi, 

 through Sind northwards as far as Beluchistan, both dry- and wet- season forms flying 

 together ; the form with yellow under surface, which is the wet-season representative, 

 is T. puellaris, and that with the apex of primaries and the whole of the secondaries 

 sandy buff" on the under surface, which is the dry-season type, is T. ochreipennis 

 { = T. rorus). We have both forms captured on the 29th of June and in November. 

 It is therefore evident that, as in some other dry localities, the seasonal forms in this 

 species represent mere varieties which appear simultaneously. Among Hewitson's 

 examples of T. phisadia is a male of the wet-season form labelled ' Aden ' ; but this 

 must surely be an error, unless the white females referred to T. phisadia, and 

 obtained at my request by Col. Yerbury, flying with the latter species, actually 

 belong to the dry-season variety T. puellaris. This, however, is extremely impro- 

 bable." 



EXPLANATIONS OF THE FIGURES OF T. puellaris. 



Plate 5, fig. 1. <? . KutclT, Dec. 1871) (Mus. Brit.). 

 „ la. Underside. 



„ lb. ? . Karachi (C. Sivin/we, Mus. Brit). 

 „ Ic. Underside. 

 „ Id. J . Campbellpur, June lS8fi (r'y/. Yerlmry, .Vns. Brit.). 



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