264 MERIDjE. 



anteriorly greenish yellow, disc saltinon-pink ; apex and termen 

 broadly dull ochraceous pink ; discocellular and posterior subter- 

 niinal spots much as in the c? Hind wing : uniform ochraceous 

 pink. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in the d, but 

 somewhat duller in colour. 



Eap. <S 2 38-50 mm. (1-50-2-00"). 



Hob. Baluchistan ; the Punjab ; Cutch. 



650. Colotis phisadia, Godart (Pieris), Enc. MM. ix, 1819, p. 132 ; 



Boisdunal (Idmais), Sp. Gen. Lep. i, 1836, p. 587; Butler 



(Teracolus;, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 136; Watson (Teracolus), Jour. 



Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii, 1894, p. 520 ; Butler (Teracolus), P. Z. S. 



1896, p. 245, pi. 10, fig. 13, pupa. 

 Pontia arno, King, Symb. Phys. 1829, pi. 7, figs. 1-4, rf $> ; Butter 



(Teracolus), A. M. N. H. (4) xviii, 1876, p. 487; Manders 



(Teracolus), Ent. Month. Mag. xxvi, 1890, p. 16. 

 Idniais philamene, Mabille, Comptes JRend. Soc. Ent. Bdg. xxiii, 



1880, p. cvi. 



cJ . Upperside, fore wing: pale salmon-pink, this colour paler 

 outwardly ; base heavily irrorated with bluish-grey scales that 

 extend outwards and are merged with a black patch that occupies 

 the apex of the cell and spreads along the discocellulars ; terminal 

 third of wing black with enclosed spots of the ground-colour in inter- 

 spaces 3, 4, 5 and 9, the spot in 4 sometimes absent, the inner 

 edge of the black area emargiuate at interspaces 2 and 4 ; the 

 outer margin with a series of minute terminal specks of ground- 

 colour in the interspaces. Hind wing : white, base heavily irro- 

 rated with bluish-grey scales that are extended downwards in a 

 diffuse band parallel to the dorsum ; terminal half of wing jet- 

 black. Underside: precisely like the underside of C. protractus 3 . 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in C. protractus. . Very 

 variable, but resembles the 3 in .markings. On the upperside 

 however, the terminal areas on both fore and hind wings that are 

 black in the 3 are silky-brown on the fore wing, the inner sinuate 

 margin of the same posteriorly black ; on the hind wing the 

 terminal brown area encloses an irregular sinuate black band that 

 does not extend either t'o the costa or the dorsum. The ground- 

 colour of the fore wing in some specimens is faintly pink fading to 

 white outwardly ; on the hind wing the ground-colour is white, as 

 in the <$ . In other specimens the ground-colour on both fore and 

 hind wings is entirely white or pinkish orange. Underside : as in 

 the c? , but the apical area of the fore and the whole surface of 

 the hind wing tinged more or less with ochracecus. In many 

 individuals (probably of the dry-season broods) this ochraceous 

 tint is very marked. Fore wing : with posterior black spots as 

 in the 3 . Hind wing : an irregular discal sinuate macular brown 

 band that is often obsolescent. Antennae, head, thorax and 

 abdomen much as in the rf . 



Exp, c? $ 38-46 mm. (1-50-1-80"). 



