140 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



DiSTRiBUTiox. — Taken by us in Karachi, Hydrabacl, Sukkur, all in Sind, where it 

 is in great numbers, also at Deesa in Eajputana, near Ahmedabad in Guzerat, and 

 Nurse reports it from Kutch Bhooj. 



CALLOSUNE SUBROSEUS. 



Plate 597, figs 1, <?, la, ? , lb, ^, Ic, ? (Dry-season Brood = Alberta), Id, ^, le, ? , If. <J , Ig, ? 



(Wet-season Brood = Suhroseus), Ih, ^ , li, ? (Extreme Dry-season Brood). 

 Teracolus Suhroseus, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, p. 443, pi. 40, figs. 6, <? , 7, ? ; id. p. 510. 

 Callosune Suhroseus, Swinhoe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 277. 

 Callosune Alberta, Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1890, p. 356. 

 Teracolus Danae, Watson (part), Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1894, p. 521. 

 Teracolus Euponipe, Guy Marshall (part), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 22. 

 Golotis Danae, Bingham (part). Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 271 (1907). 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. 1, $, la, ?, lb, $, Ic, ?). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside white, with some few grey and yellow scales at the 

 base. Forewing with a black dot at the end of the cell, costal line black, carmine 

 apical patch somewhat smaller than in JDulcis, costal and outer black borders narrow, 

 inner border much as in the Dry-season form of that species, not usually produced 

 hindwards lower than vein 2. Hindwing with black spots at the vein ends on the 

 exterior border. Underside. Foreidng white, a black dot at the end of the cell, 

 apical portion broad and of a rosy flesh colour, crossed in its middle by a whorl of 

 pinkish-brown spots with pale centres. Hindwing dark rosy with a lilac tinge, a bifid 

 red-brown spot at the end of the cell, sometimes with pink or red between them, and a 

 discal band of red-brown spots with pale centres, decreasing in size hindwards, no other 

 markings. 



Female. Upperside like a female of the Dry-season form of Didcis. Underside 

 like the male, the lilac rosy tinge more pronounced. Forewing with the cell spot large, 

 the apical band of spots with the lowest large, a dot often below it and a large almost 

 square brown spot in the middle of the internomedian interspace. Hindwing as in the 

 male. Palpi above, head and thorax covered with short reddish-ochreous hairs. 



Expanse, $ ? 1^^ to lyV inches. 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. Id, t, le, ?, if, $, Ig, ?). 

 IMale and Female. Very similar to the Dry-season brood, but the rosy sulOFusion 

 beneath is much paler and has no lilac tinge. 

 Expanse, $ $ 1^^ to l-j-^ inches. 



Extreme Dry-season Brood (Figs. Ih, i, li, $). 

 Male and Female. Upperside like a small example of the other form, the spots on 

 the exterior margin of the Hindwing quite small. Underside. Male. Both wings pure 



