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2 and 3. Hindwing irrorated with black and grey scales, a black dot at the end of 

 the cell, the discal spots showing through the wing. 



Female. Above and below similar to the male, but paler in colour, the costal 

 black band of the hindwing above is absent, and all the salmon-coloured spots on both 

 wings are larger ; hindwing below with a large cell spot and a discal whorl of grey 

 conjoined spots ; there are also many Albinos (fig. id). 



Expanse, $ % l-^ inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs, le, $, If, ?). 



Male. Coloured above and below much as in the other form, but the black band 

 round the wings is much narrower and the black spot above the lower margin near the 

 angle is disconnected from the marginal band. 



Female. Paler than the male, often whitish, not differing from the markings of 

 the male except in the absence as usual of the costal band on the hindwing. 



Expanse, ^ ? Itto inches. 



Larva feeds on Avicennia Tomontosa, called by the natives Sairi; it is slender, 

 cylindrical and rough in the upper surface like the larva of Terias ; on examination 

 with a strong lens, this roughness proves to be due to minute tubercles on each of 

 which grows a short black bristle ; each side above the base of the legs is fringed with 

 somewhat longer white hairs ; the colour is grass-green above, with a dark blue dorsal 

 line very narrowly bordered with yellow ; the underside is paler bottle-green, a lateral 

 yellowish line separating the two tints. 



Pupa very similar in form to that of Terias, and of a dingy whitey-brown colour. 

 The aspect of this pupa confirms my general impression that this species is much 

 nearer to Terias than to some of the species with which it has been lumped under the 

 name Temcolus (Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 39). 



Davidson's description of larva and pupa is very similar (Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. 1890, p. 359, and 1897, p. 572), except that he found the larva feeding on Sahadora 

 Persica, and that the pupa is suspended by the tail, like the pupa of Terias, with 

 a moderately long band. 



Habitat. — Southern India. 



Distribution. — We have it from Bombay, Poona, Ahmednuggar and Karwar ; it 

 is in the B. M. from Nassic, Bangalore and Kolar ; Hampson records it from the 

 Nilgiris, Watson from Mysore. 



COLOTIS MODESTUS. 

 Plate 598, figs. 3, <J , 3a, 9 (Wet-season Brood), 3b, ^ (Dry-season Brood). 

 Teracolus Modestus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 137. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1894, 



p. 520. 

 Idmais Modestus, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 131, pi. 49, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? (1881). 



