LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



CALLOSUNE DANAE. 



Plate 595, figs. 2, i, 2a, ?, 2b, $, 2c, ? (Wet-season Brood), 3, ^,3a, ? (Dry-season Brood = 



Sanguinalis), 4, (^ , 4a, $ , 4b, ^ , 4c, 9 (Extreme Dry-season Brood = TapUni). 

 Papilio Banae, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 476 (1775). Donovan, Ins. Ind. pi. 26, fig. 2, <J (1800). 

 Callosune Banae, Moore, Catal. Lep. E.I.C. i. p. 69 (1857). Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1867, p. 389. 



Moore, Lep. CeylcHi, i. p. 129 (1881). Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 362. 

 Teracolus Danae, Butler, Proo. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 157. Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 143. 



Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 36 ; id. (part) 1894, p. 521. Butler, Ann. Mag. 



Nat. Hist. 1897, p. 498. Guy Marshall (part), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 22. Aitken and 



Comber, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1903, p. 51. 

 Colotis Banae, Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 271 (1907). 

 Teracolus Sanguinalif:, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 158. 

 Callosune Sanguinalis, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 129 (1881). 

 Callosune TapUni, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, p. 444, pi. 40, figs. 8, <J , 9, 9 ; id. 1885, p. 144. 



Wet-season Form (Figs. 2, $, 2a, ?, 2b, $, 2c, ?). 



Imago. — Male. White, rather thickly irrorated with blackish-grey scales towards 

 the base. Forewing, eosta from base to the apical patch with a broad black band, a 

 black spot at the end of the cell ; apical patch large, carmine, edged on the costa and 

 outer side by a narrow black band, the outer band with angular spots on the veins ; 

 the inner black band is broad, is somewhat suffused inwardly and widens hindward, 

 and is continued to the lower angle of the wing. Hindwiny with a broad black band 

 on the exterior margin, more or less macular hindwards. Underside white, sparsely 

 covered with grey scales. Foreicing with a black spot at the end of the cell, the apical 

 portion with pale rosy tinge, a band of pale carmine across its middle containing a 

 whorl of black spots with white centres, some grey marks on the outer margin, 

 followed by two large blackish square spots on the interspaces below veins 3 and 2. 

 Hindwing with a black spot with a carmine centre at the end of the cell, a discal 

 macular complete band or whorl right across the wing, the spots decreasing in size 

 hindward, and each containing faint traces of pale carmine inside them, the outer 

 black border faintly visible through the wing. 



Female. Upperside white, with the basal third very thickly irrorated with 

 blackish-grey scales, a black spot at the end of the cell, costal line black, the apical 

 patch very nearly as brightly coloured as in the male, but smaller, its outer and inner 

 black margins being deeper, the former running in acute angles inwards on the veins, 

 the inner band thickened hindwards and continued broadly to the lower angle, a whorl 

 of four or five black spots across the middle of. the patch. Hindwing with a broad 

 lilack band on the exterior border as in the male, a square black spot near the costa 

 lieyond the middle, being the commencement of the discal macular band, the spots of 

 which arc less pronounced hindwards. Underside like the underside of the male, but 



