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Teracolus carnifex, Butler, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 138, pi. 7, figs. 8, 9, J; 



Watson, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii, 1894, pp. 519, 526. 

 Teracolus kennedii, Sicinhoe, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 440 ; Watson, Jour. 



Bomb. N. H. Soc. 1894, pp. 519, 526. 



c? . Upperside : salmon-pink. Fore wing : costa black, thickly 

 overlaid with greyish or pinkish scales ; a black spot at apex of 

 cell, which may be large and quadrate or smaller and lunate ; 

 termen broadly black, with an enclosed double transverse series of 

 spots of the ground-colour the inner series consists of a large 

 spot in interspace 1, two very small spots in interspaces 2 and 3, 

 one in.each, and four larger anterior spots placed in a curve ; the 

 spots in the outer series are variable in number, but generally 

 there is one in each interspace, these are more or less linear in 

 shape. Hind wing: a band on costal margin extended to just 

 within the upper margin of the cell, covered with dense black 

 specialized scales ; this black band joined on to a broad similarly- 

 coloured terminal band of ordinary scales, that becomes more or 

 less diffuse and powdery posteriorly, and encloses a double series 

 of small spots of the ground-colour the inner series often obso- 

 lescent, in some specimens entirely absent; dorsum heavily irrorated 

 with fuscous scales, the irroration extended on to the disc, 

 which has therefore generally a greyish appearance. Underside : 

 greenish yellow ; an anticiliary fine black line on both fore and 

 hind wings ; the black markings of the upperside show through 

 by transparency. Tore wing : a black spot, variable in size and 

 intensity, in some specimens absent altogether, at apex of cell ; 

 a subterminal quadrate black spot in interspace 1 and another 

 (sometimes faintly marked or absent) further outwards in inter- 

 space 2 ; disc faintly, dorsal margin broadly very pale salmon-pink. 

 Hind wing: the whole surface sparsely irrorated with minute 

 black scales ; a small black discocellular spot. Cilia of both fore 

 and hind wings pale salmon-pink. Antennae, head, thorax and 

 abdomen black, the antennae speckled with white, the head and 

 thorax covered with greenish-fuscous hairs ; beneath : the palpi 

 green, thorax and abdomen white. 



$ . Form 1. Upperside : ground-colour paler than in the d , in 

 some specimens quite ochraceous outwardly ; all the markings 

 similar, but duller in tint. The hind wing, of course, without the 

 black costal band of specialized scales, the ground-colour extended 

 up to the costal margin. Underside similar to that of the tf , 

 but the ground-colour very much paler and more ochraceous than 

 green. In some specimens, in addition to the black spots in inter- 

 spaces 1 and 2 on fore wing, there is an anterior postdiscal fuscous 

 curved band. Hind wing : discocellular spot larger than in the 3 

 and annular; a curved discal series of reddish spots from costa to 

 dorsum. 



$ . Form 2. Similar to $ form 1, but the ground-colour pale 

 primrose-yellow to pure white. Antennae, head, thorax and 

 abdomen in both forms much as in the 3 . 

 Exp. J $ 40-50 mm. (1-56-2-00"). 



