144 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



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



i. p. 5 (1898). 

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



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 3, $, 3a, $). 



Imago. Male. Upperside paler salmon-pink than in Cypraea, the apex more 

 produced. Forewing with the outer black band broader, the spots inside the band 

 smaller, the inner margin of the band feebly sinuated inwardly between the veins, and 

 barely enclosing a spot of the ground colour below vein 2, a black dentate spot at the 

 end of the cell touching the costal band. Hindwing with the outer band broader and 

 more complete than in Cyproea and inwardly traversed by a row of small grey 

 bordered spots of the ground colour. Underside pale salmon-yellow, a black dot at the 

 end of each cell, the upper markings more or less visible through the wings, and the 

 two discal black spots on the forewing well pronounced. 



Female. Upperside generally white, sometimes tinged with salmon-pink, but 

 the coloured females are much rarer than the white ones ; the black bands on both 

 wings broader usually than in the males, the spots on the band usually larger and more 

 numerous and complete, the black spot at the end of the cell of the forewing larger, 

 the basal area thickly irrorated and more extensive ; underside tinged with grey, more 

 or less ochreous-tinged along the borders of the forewing and the whole of the hind- 

 wing, which has a large cell spot and a discal band of conjoined pinky-grey spots. 



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



Dry-season Brood (Fig. 3b, $). 



Both sexes similar to the Wet-season form, but all the bands narrower and the 

 spots smaller. 



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



Habitat. — Ceylon, 



Distribution. — In our collection from Colombo and Trincomali ; found by Wade 

 and Mackwood in Dambool, Hambantotte, and MuUiatim District. 



COLOTIS DYNAMINE. 

 Plate 598, figs. 2, <J , 2a, ? (Wet-season Brood), 2b, 9 , 2c, ? (Dry-season Brood = Carnifer). 

 Pontia Dynamine, Klug, Symb. Phys. pi. 6, figs. 17, 18, ^ (1829). 

 Idmais Dynamine, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. p. 588 (1836). Swinlioe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



1887, p. 277. 

 Teracolus Dynamine, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 138; id. 1881, p. 699. Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1884, p. 509. Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 39. 

 Teracolus Carnifer, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc 187 , p. 138, pi. 7, figs. 8, 9, (J. S\\inhoe, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1884, p. 509. 



