142 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Cyprsea group superficially much resemble each other, the Indian Cyprsea is in 

 resemblance nearest to the African Amata, the Dry-season form of the Arabian and 

 Indian Dynamine ( Carnifer) somewhat resembles the African Calais, but are not 

 nearly so brightly coloured, there are distinctive differences pointed out by Boisduval 

 (Spec. Gen. p. 588), and considering the different quarters of the globe in which they 

 occur we prefer to keep the Indian forms separate from the African. 



COLOTIS CYPRiEA. 



Plate 598, figs. 1, <J, la, ?, lb, (J, Ic, ? (Wet-season Brood), Id, ? (Albino), le, ^ , If, ? (Dry- 

 season Brood = Kennedii). 



Paptlio Cyprsea, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 22 (1787). 



Idmais Calais, Moore (nee Cramer), Cat. Lep. E.I.C. i. p. 67 (1857). 



Teracoltis Cyprsea, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 138. Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. U3. 



Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 39. Davidson and Aitken, id. 1890, p. 359. 

 Teracolus Amata, Butler (nee Fabricius), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 138. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. 



Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 36. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 572, 



Guy Marshall (part), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 9. Sharpe (part), Monog. Genus Teracolus, i. 



p. 5, pi. 1, figs. 2, 2a, 2b (1898). 

 Idmais Amata, Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 362. 

 Teracolus Kennedii, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, p. 440 ; id. 1885, p. 143. 

 Teracolus Calais, Aitken and Comber, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1903, p. 50. 

 Colotis Amata, Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 261 (1907). 



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



Imago. A forest and garden insect, Male. Upperside salmon-pink. Forewing 

 with a broad black costal band reaching the sub-costal vein, irrorated with salmon - 

 pink scales on the basal portion, a black spot, often like a bar from this band, half way 

 across the end of the cell, thick black irrorations at the base of the wing, the apical 

 third black, its inner margin sinuous and curved, with two teeth on veins 2 and 3, con- 

 tinued hindwards to the lower angle, a large black spot a little inwards, touching the 

 lower tooth, making a large bifid spot of the ground colour, a little above the lower 

 margin, the apical portion crossed by a whorl of three or four or more spots of the 

 ground colour and sometimes some sub-marginal short streaks near the apex, and some 

 spots l)elow it. Hindwing with black irrorations thickly down the abdominal marginal 

 third of the wing, a broad black costal band, a narrower black band on the exterior 

 border, often marked with pinkish close to the marginal line, some inner, somewhat 

 spear-shaped black spots, which leave large spots of the ground colour between them 

 and the band ; cilia of both wings white. Underside pale ochreous tinged with salmon 

 colour. Forewing with a pale cell spot and all the bands and spots showing through 

 the wing, and two large prominent, nearly square black spots, on the disc, below veins 



