COMMON BUTTERFLIES 01 THE PLAINS OF INDIA. 1139 



a. Upperside: sometimes white in the female. Termi- 

 nal black band on hindwing narrow with a more 

 or less obsolescent series of spots of the same 

 tint as ground-colour so arranged as to break 

 up the inner edge of band. Size: 1"'5 to 2" . . amata. (PL J., 



fig. 68.) 



h. Upperside : always salmon-pink. Terminal black 

 band on hindwing broad and immaculate. Size : 

 l"-5 to 2" protractus. 



B. Upperside forewing: salmon pink, of hindwing white, 



of female sometimes both wings white. Terminal 

 black band of hindwing broad. Size : 1"*5 to 

 1"'8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iMsadia. 



This species is like protractus except that the spots on the apical band 



of forewing are of the ground-colour and not suffused with grey as in that 



species. 



C. Upperside : ground-colour of both wings orange-pink; 



female sometimes with ground-colour white or 

 white suffused with salmon-buff. 



a. Upperside forewing : four or five spots of ground- 



colour enclosed in terminal black border. Size : 



l-"8 to 2"- 25 fausta. 



b. Upperside forewing : never more than three spots 



included in the black border. Size: l"-8 to 



2"'25 , . . . . . . . . , . . . . tripuncta. 



Fausta is found in Sind, Panjab, Rajputana, Bombay ; tripuncta in Sind, 

 Bombay, Poona, Nilgiris, Bengal, Orissa, Ganjam. 



D. Upperside : ground-colour white. 



a. Upperside forewing : no orange or carmine mark- 



ings, a broad, black, terminal immaculate band. 



Size : l"-5 to 2" . . . . . . , . . . vestalis. 



b. Upperside forewing : orange or carmine apical 



patch present. 

 a^. Upperside forewing : apical patch orange. 



a^. Forewing upperside : the orange patch not 

 bordered with black on inner side. Size : 



l"-4 to 2" eucharis. 



b^. Forewing iipperside : orange patch bordered 



on inner side with black. Size : l"-2 tol"-75 ein'iia. (PI, J., 



figs. 67, S 67a 



b^. Upperside forewing: apical patch crimson. 



Size : l"-5 to l"-75 danae. 



