COLIINJE. 145 



Teracolus Calais, var. Dt/namine, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 245. 



Teraculus Calais, Sharpe (part), Monog. Gen. Teracolus, i. p. 1 (1898). Guy Marshall, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1897, p. 9. 

 Teracolus Amatus, Nurse (nee Fabricius), Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1899, p. 513. 

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



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 2, J, 2a, ?). 



Imago. Inhabits desert and sandy tracts. Male. Upperside salmon-pink of a 

 duller colour than in either of the preceding forms. Forewing with the base suffused 

 with black irrorations, extending somewhat on the median and lower veins, costal band 

 broad, entering the cell, apical portion of the outer band not so broad as in the other 

 forms, its inner margin curved to vein 4, when it is looped twice towards the margin, 

 the lower loop being joined to a large square black spot above the lower margin, 

 leaving a large spot of the ground colour near the angle ; the lower portion of the 

 outer band is broad ; the apical portion is crossed by a whorl of spots and some sub- 

 marginal streaks of the ground colour. Hindwing with a very broad costal band, the 

 outer band also broad, occupying often a third of the wing, the abdominal marginal 

 third heavily irrorated with black, leaving but a small portion of the centre of the wing 

 salmon-pink, there are usually four or five salmon-pink spots in the marginal band 

 well separated from the margin and some salmon -pink dots close to the margin, cilia 

 brownish with white tips. Underside much as in the other forms, but on the forewing 

 there is a black line across the cell thickened into a spot hindward, and often on the 

 hindwings a distinct indication of a discal whorl of spots. 



Female. Upperside duller and paler in colour, sometimes whitish in the discs 

 of both wings. Forewing with the basal irrorations usually more extensive, the cell 

 spot much larger than in the male, not infrequently forming part of the costal band 

 and running in with it to the base. Flindwing with the discal band of spots in the 

 outer black band usually complete, one in each interspace ; no costal band. Underside 

 paler and brighter coloured than in the male. Forewing with a salmon-pink sufi"usion 

 on the basal third, the bands and spots showing very distinctly through the wing. 

 Hindwing irrorated with grey atoms, a small pink and red cell spot, and a well- 

 pronounced discal whorl of conjoined pinkish-brown spots. 



Expanse, $ $, ly-^ to ly-g- inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. 2b, $, 2c $). 



Male. Upperside salmon-pink, brighter than in the Wet-season form, the basal 



irrorations lighter and less extensive, the exterior band of the Hindwing narrower, its 



inner portion rapidly paling into the salmon-pink colour of the wing, which 



consequently covers a much larger space, the spots near the margin larger and more 



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