COLOTIS. 269 



Pieris titea, Godt. Encycl. Mct/i. ix, 1819, p. 124 ; Watson (Tera- 

 colus), Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii, 1894, pp. 522, 526. 



Teracolus pseudevanthe, Butler, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 164, pi. 7, 

 fig. 16, ^ $ ; Watson, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii, 1894, 

 pp. 522, 526. 



Teracolus pallet, Moore, A. M. N. H. (4) xx, 1877, p. 49; 

 Watson, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii, 1894, p. 523. 



& Upperside : pure white. Fore wing : base and costa for a 

 short distance generally sparsely irrorated with black scales ; 

 a broad apical orange-yellow patch, with its inner edge straight 

 and margined with gamboge-yellow; this patch is sometimes 

 immaculate, but generally bears a black diffuse spot on its lower 

 inner edge which may or may not extend to the termen below the 

 orange ; costa, apex and termen, the latter nearly up to the tornus, 

 edged and festooned beyond the orange area with black. Hind 

 wing : with black spots at the apices of the veins that vary in size 

 and end on the termen, also a diffuse preapical black spot on the 

 costa. Underside : pure white in most specimens, suffused, except 

 on the disc of the fore wing, with pinkish yellow, and at base 

 of the same wing with pure sulphur-yellow ; apical orange patch 

 and black terminal markings on the upperside of the fore wing 

 show through by transparency, the former crossed by a sinuous 

 fuscous fascia that ends in a black diffuse spot. Hind wing : shaded 

 with ochraceous at base and with a fuscous preapical spot on costa, 

 also a few scattered transverse fuscous striae and small spots. 

 Many specimens have the preapical spot continued as an obscure 

 fuscous fascia across the wing aud bear a series of large terminal 

 fuscous spots that correspond to the black spots on the upperside. 

 Both fore and hind wings with black discocellular dots. Antennae, 

 head, thorax and abdomen black ; antennae speckled with white on 

 the sides, head and thorax clothed with short greyish-brown hairs ; 

 beneath : the palpi, thorax and abdomen white. $ . Ground- 

 colour similar ; the markings differ from those oi: the c? as 

 follows: Upperside, fore wing: base and costa more heavily 

 irrorated with greyish-black scales ; discocellular spot larger ; 

 apical area black, with three enclosed elongate orange spots ; 

 inner margin of black area irregularly sinuate and diffuse, ex- 

 tended shortly inwards in interspace 3 ; a transverse black spot 

 across middle of interspace 1. Hind wing : base irrorated more 

 sparsely than in the fore wing with greyish-black scales ; preapical 

 spot on costa and terminal spots much larger ; in a few specimens 

 thei'e is an obscure transverse posterior discal fascia. Underside : 

 markings similar to but very much broader, more heavily marked, 

 and more prominent than those in the <5 ; the tranverse fuscous 

 strife and dots more numerous. Antennae, head, thorax and abdo- 

 men as in the c? . 



Ea-p. <S $ 36-50 mm. (1-42-2-00"). 



Hob. Central and Southern India from Jabalpur and Bombay 

 to Travancore ; Ceylon. 



