COLIIN^. 139 



Female. White, with the basal third of both wings heavily irrorated with dark 

 grey scales, the scaling outwardly, abruptly terminating. Forewing with a large round 

 black spot at the end of the cell ; apical band black with four or five spear-shaped 

 carmine streaks across its middle, its inner margin sinuous and sometimes tinged with 

 carmine, and curves towards the outer margin at vein 2 and is continued to the lower 

 angle ; a large bifid blackish spot in the middle of the internomedian interspace and a 

 small one in the interspace l-)elow the curve. Hindwing with the black outer marginal 

 band more or less macular, but very broad, a discal whorl of blackish spots. Underside 

 with the basal third of the forewing and the whole surface of the hindwing suffused 

 with pinkish-yellow, the markings much as in the male, but the spot in the interno- 

 median interspace on the forewing is present, and generally two additional large 

 blackish spots, one in the cell and the other below it ; on the hindwing the cell spot 

 and the spots composing the discal band are well marked with carmine. 



Expanse, ^ ? 1-/^ to 2 inches. 



Intermediate Form (Figs. Id, ^, le, ?, If, ?). 



Male. Upperside as in the Wet-season brood. Underside with all the markings 

 smaller, the discal whorl of spots on the hindwing small and decreasing hindwards, 

 generally obsolescent after vein 4. 



Female. Much as in the Wet-season brood, the carmine apical streaks of the 

 forewing larger, the other markings above and below less pronounced. 



The form Immaculatus, fig. Ig, is merely a varietal form of Dims not 

 uncommon, in which the discal band of the hindwing below is entirely absent. 



Expanse, l^^- to 2 inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. Ih, $, li, ?, Ij, ?, Ik, ?). 



Male. Upperside white, some basal grey irrorations on the forewing, none on the 

 hindwing. Forewing with the costal black line very narrow, a black dot at the end of 

 the cell, the carmine apical patch larger than in the other forms, all the black borders 

 beino- very narrow. Hindwing with small black spots at the ends of the veins on the 

 exterior border. Underside white, the apical carmine patch of the forewing showing 

 through, all the spots very small, the discal whorl of spots on the hindwing very small 

 and incomplete. 



Female. Upperside like the females of the other forms, but the basal irrorations 

 much paler and all the spots smaller and paler, the carmine apical patch of the forewing 

 much larger, the bands being very narrow. Underside white, basal irrorations sparse, 

 often hardly visible, the spots small and with a pink tinge. 



Expanse, $ % l^ to l-^ inches. 



Habitat. —The desert and sandy tracts of Western India, 



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