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•: Ou this question the latest opinion of Dr. Butler is as follovys : " Of the 

 varieties of T. cfrida to which I gave distinctive names, T. farrinm is the most 

 lieavily marked on the upper surface, though T. pernofafu-s. runs it very close ; T. piinis 

 is a dwarf form of the species with rather more orange at the apex than in tlie 

 typical 7'. cfrida. These are all wet-season or intermediate forms. The dry-season 

 phase is representefl by T. ca-s/Mini-s and the starved form of it which I described 

 under the name of T. bimhura," . 



Mr. De Niceville, who has kindly informed me of several unpublished 

 localitie-; tor this species, writes : " 1 have caught T. clrida at Simla at GOOD 

 feet, and at Agra. It has a quick flight for so frail an insect, and keeps near the 

 ground, dodging about between the herbage and bushes, so is not easy to catch, as 

 one's net gets ' hung up.' " 



Messrs. J. Davidson and E. H. Aitken (Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, 

 vol. V. p. 359) writes : " We have reared this in Bombay in the month of December 

 on Cadaba i/idica. From the very meagre note we made at tlie time, the larva appears 

 to have been like that of Terias hecabe, but perceptibly enlarged near the posterior 

 extremity. The pupa was also like that of Terias, but stouter, and the snout was 

 long and sharply recurved. The colour was pale straw or dirty white." 



Mr. Aitken (Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887 ii. p. 38) writes as follows : 

 " I have not yet seen any reason to believe that all the orange-tipped Teracoli in this 

 Pi'esidency constitute more than one species. It is subject, like most of the Pierints, 

 to very wide variation, which does not seem to depend much on climate or season. I 

 have reared very different varieties from larvte taken at one time, in the same 

 spot, if not on the same plant. The larva feeds on a small climbing caper which is 

 very common on the hilly parts of Bombay. (Young plant of C. Iiorrida / ) It is 

 nearly cylindrical, slender, and of a uniform green colour, with the rough surface 

 characteristics of the larvse of Catopsilia and Terias. The pupa has a sharp transverse 

 ridge above, at the junction of the thorax and abdomen, which extends well be^'ond 

 the general outline on each side, forming a pointed lateral process. From this a 

 dorsal ridge runs out into a similar point just over and behind the head. The colour 

 is light green, with a triangular patch of yellowish-white on the anterior side of each 

 lateral process and a similar patch covering the top of the head. Tiiis species is in 

 season at the commencement of the hot weather." 



Colonel Yerbury has kindly given me the following notes: — "Very common; 

 may be met with anywhere in the neighbourhood of Campbellpur, but shows a slight 

 preference tor the bushes of Capperis apliyUa, the ' blazing bush ' of the Punjab 

 and Eajputana." 



Mr. J. Davidson writes to me: "All my specimens are from Khandesh, Nassic, 



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