no TERACOLVS. 



and Guzerat, but I fully believe I have seen it in the other districts I have 

 served in." 



I do not agree with Mr. Guy Marshall in adding T. limbatirs to this species, and I 

 have therefore followed Dr. Butler in keeping it distinct, as a Ceylonese form» 



EXPLANATION OF THE FIGURES OF T. etrida. 



Plate 33, fig. 1. $ Bombay (./o/mi TAor/je .■ Mus. Brit,). 



„ la. Underside of fig. 1. 



„ lb. 9 Fao, Persian Gulf, September 7, l^i'Si) (IT. D. Cumminy : Mvs. Brit.). 



,, Ic. Undei-side of fig. lb. 



„ Id. S Wazirabad, Punjab (Sn(/a(ife5' ff«a?'se/y ,• Jfiix. Brit.). 



„ le. Underside of fig. Id. 



„ If. 9 Wazirabad, Punjab (&v'(/«fZier //pnrsey ,• Mus. Brit.). 



„ Ig. Underside of fig. If. 



„ Ih. S Mean Meer, October 31, IS'.H I (//m/onZ CWZ.; J/«(s. i?W<.). 



„ li. Underside of fig. Ih. 



„ Ij. 2 Mea.nUeer,Octohei- \'^, \8'M) {IIarford( 'oil. ; .Viis. Brit.). 



„ Ik. Underside of fig. Ij. 



„ 11. ? Mean Meer, October 17, 181)0 (//rt?/o?-rf rW/. ; J/ms. i)V/7.). 



„ Im. Underside of fig. 11. 



TERACOLUS LIMBATUS, Butler. 



(Plate 3i, figs. 1, la-lg.) 



Teracolus limhatus, Butler, P. Z. S. 1^7(i, p. 161 ; Swinhoe, P. Z. S. l!S8i, p. jll ; ^^'atson, Journ. 



Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. viii. pp. 522, 523 (1893) ; Butler, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xx. 



p. 450 (1897). 

 Callosime limhatus, Kirby, Syn. Diurn. Lepid. Suppl. p. 8(t4 (1877). 

 Cullosune limbata, Moore, Lepid. Ceylon, i. p. 129 (1S81). 

 Teracdtts etrida (part.), Guy Marshall, P. Z. S. 189.J, p. 20. 



Distinguished from the Indian species T. etrida, by the much broader transverse 

 band uf brownish-black on the primaries, the hind-marginal border extending to the 

 posterior angle ; the sulphur-yellow shading being absent. 



Male. — Central area of the primaries white, dusted with grey at the base; the 

 orange-red patch slightly smaller and enclosed bj- a broad border of brownish-black ; 

 the costa and hind-margin also brownish-black, terminating on the posterior angle ; 

 no shade of sulphur-yellow. Secondaries, central area white ; the brownish-black 

 hind-marginal border similar to that of 'I. etrida. 



Underside. — Primaries and secondaries similar to those of T. etrida as regards 

 colour and markings ; the discal band on the secondaries nearly obsolete. 



