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the band hindwards. Hindwing similar to that of the Wet-season male, but the spots 

 on the exterior margin are reduced to mere dots. Underside white, somewhat tinged 

 with ochreous-yellow. Forewing with the orange patch showing through the wing, 

 the inner band of it represented by three or four brown spots downwards from the 

 costa. Hindwing unmarked except for a brown spot on the costa beyond the 

 middle. 



Female. Eather variable, the orange-yellow apical patch of the Forewing is as 

 usual paler than in the male, but more extensive than in the female of the Wet-season 

 form, because both the outer and inner black bands are much narrower and never meet 

 hindwards, and the spots on the outer border of the Hindwing are narrower. Under- 

 side similar to the underside of the female of the Wet-season form, but the suffusion on 

 the hindwing is of a darker, richer and more reddish tint. 



Expanse, $ ? 1^ to 1^\ inches. 



Extreme Dry-season Brood (Figs, li, Ij, Ik, 11 = Pal/ens). 



Male. Upperside white. Forewing with the costal line obsolescent, the oraugc- 

 yellow apical patch with a thin outer black border, no indications of an inner band. 

 Hindwing immaculate. Underside as in the Dry-season form, the suffusion on the 

 hindwing much brighter and more or less tinged with pink. 



Expanse, ^ ? l/g to l^-^ inches. 



This species often exhibits albinism. Fig. lb represents a male of the Wet-season 

 form, and Fig. Ig a female of the Dry-season form. 



Habitat. — Southern India, Ceylon. 



Distribution. — Frequents cultivated lands and the outskirts of forests ; not a 

 desert insect. Fergusson reports it from Travancore, Aitken and Comber from the 

 Konkan, Hampson from the Nilgiri Hills, Davidson from Khandesh, Watson from 

 Mysore, Manders from Ceylon. It is in our Collection from the Nilgiris, Madras, 

 Belgaum, Bombay, Poona and Mahableshwur. 



Larva. — Narrow ; much resembles that of a moth, dull green, with no line along 

 the back, but with a yellow or pinkish line along each side. It has an extraordinary 

 habit of resting with the anal segment turned up and not resting on a twig. Feeds on 

 Candaha Indica. 



Pupa. — Very much bent back, far more so than in Terias, the head prolonged 

 into a long thin recurved beak. When first formed it is pale green, but becomes a 

 greyish-white marbled more or less with brown. (Davidson in Sharpe's Monograph 

 Gen. Teracolus, p. 101.) 



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