138 mr. a. g. butler on the genus teracolus. [jan. 1$, 



39. Teracolus amata. 



Papilio amata, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 476. n. 143 (1775). 



Idmais amata, Butler, Fabr. Cat. p. 217. n. 1 (1869). 



Papilio Calais (part), Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 351, A-D (1782), 

 bad figures. 



6 $ , Kurnool ; d $ , Balasore ; c? , Bombay ; 5 j Madras ; 

 (S , Deccan ; $, Coromandel. Colls. F. Moore and B.M. 



The last two of the examples quoted above are in the Museum 

 collection : the species is the size of T. calais (the female sometimes 

 larger) ; it is much like T. dynamene ; but the outline of the marginal 

 border is much less irregular, and the colouring of the underside 

 clear, the female only showing more or less strongly defined trans- 

 verse discal spots. A white female from Kurnool is in Mr. Moore's 

 collection ; it has the markings of the underside better defined than 

 usual in the typical female. 



40. Teracolus cypr^a. 



Papilio cyprcea, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 203. n. 634 (1/93). 



cJ 5 > Bombay (8 examples). Coll. F. Moore. 



This species is considerably larger than T. calais, the figure of 

 which Fabricius quotes for it ; the male measures 1 inch 8 lines to 

 2 inches 1 line, and the female 1 inch 1 1 lines to 2 inches 2 lines. 

 It is easily distinguished from T. calais on the underside by the 

 absence of the orange spot on disk of primaries, and by its deeper 

 coloration ; from the preceding species T. amata it is easily distin- 

 guished by its more elongated primaries, deeper coloration below, 

 and the more irregular outer border of the primaries, the enclosed 

 spot on interno-median interspace being much broader. 



There is a white female in the collection of the British Museum ; 

 it is smaller than typical females, and the ground-colour on the 

 under surface is paler. 



41. Teracolus dynamene. 



Pontia dynamene. King, Symb. Phys. pi. 6 tigs. 15, 16 (1829). 



Idmais dynamene, Boisduval, Sp. Gen. Lep. i. p. 588. n. 5 (1836). 



c?, N. India (B.M.) ; S ?, Scinde and Agra; $, Kattywur; 

 ? , Punjab (coll. F. Moore). 



This species is frequently confounded with T. amata in collections. 

 It is, however characterized by a much less rounded outer margin to 

 the primaries, paler and more greyish coloration, the abdominal 

 half of secondaries distinctly grey in the male, the inner edge of the 

 external border of primaries more irregular even than in T. cyprcea, 

 the greener coloration of the under surface, the paler female, which 

 has a distinct orange blotch (cut by the median nervure and its first 

 two branches) on the under surface of the primaries, as in T. calais, 

 and in the greater prominence of the pale marginal internervular 

 liturse on the upper surface. 



42. Teracolus carnifer, n. sp. (Plate VII. figs. 8, 9.) 



cJ. Allied to the preceding species, but smaller, and of a clearer 



