356 Col. 0. Swinhoe on new Indian Butterflies. 



dull metallic golden-green, but also in the entire absence of 

 the prominent discal band. 



Pijerinje. 

 5. Callosune alberta, n. sp. 



S- Upperside pure white. Fore wing with the costal 

 line blackish brown, accompanied interiorly with grey irrora- 

 tions ; basal area darkly irrorated with grey, a distinct 

 greyish-brown mark at end of cell ; a large carmine apical 

 patch, with narrow blackish-brown outer border, running in 

 on to the veins, which are also blackish brown, and with a 

 broad, more or less suffused, blackish-brown interior band, 

 which fines down the outer margin beyond the first median 

 branch and sometimes to the hinder angle. Hind wing with 

 the base slightly irrorated with grey ; large blackish-brown 

 marginal spots on each vein, pointed inwardly more or less. 



Underside : fore wing white, costal and basal areas greenish 

 grey ; a brown spot at the end of the cell ; apical area broad, 

 rosy flesh-colour. Hind wing rosy flesh-colour, tinted with 

 lilac ; a brown spot with a red centre at the end of the cell j 

 a discal band of spots with pale centres across both wings, 

 touching the apical flesh-coloured space in the fore wing, well 

 recurved on both wings, usually complete on the hind wing, 

 often only faintly indicated in the first median and interno- 

 median interspaces of the fore wing, sometimes obsolete there ; 

 in some specimens the spots on this band, especially on the 

 hind wing, are confluent ; two pale blackish-brown patches at 

 the margin of the fore wing on the first and second median 

 branches. 



? • Upperside much as in the female of G. dirus, Butler ; 

 the underside is, however, quite different, being coloured and 

 marked as in the male, but with the colours and markings much 

 stronger and darker. 



Expanse of wings, <$ ? lyV inch. 

 Karachi, October and November 1885. 

 Allied to C. subroseus, Swinh. (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, 

 p. 443, pi. xl. figs. 6 and 7, S ? )> but is more strongly 

 marked above and below and differently tinted on the under- 

 side in both sexes, having the peculiar purplish tinting of 

 some of the African species. I have 37 males and 8 females 

 of C. subroseus and 14 males and 4 females of this species ; 

 they are near allies, but can hardly be seasonal forms of each 

 other, as G. subroseus occurs more or less all the year round. 

 I have taken it in every month of the year except September. 



