narrower tlian the rest, widening gradually hindwards down to the lower margin, and 

 its inner margin is sinuate ; across the middle of the apical portion are four or five 

 blue-grey spots, the upper ones the largest. Hindwing with the outer band occupying 

 nearly half the wing, the costal space pale greyish, the abdominal marginal space very 

 broadly and densely irrorated with black and blue-grey scales, reducing the salmon- 

 pink central space very much ; cilia of both wings white. Underside. Forewing pale 

 salmon-pink with four large black spots, one at the end of the cell, and three in a row 

 on the lower disc near the outer margin ; the first round and small in the interspace 

 below vein 4 ; the second in the next interspace a little nearer the margin, larger and 

 square ; the third (the largest) in the next interspace, a little inwards, expanding 

 hindwards on to the lower margin. Hindwing yellowish with some slight pinkish 

 suffusion inwards, and greenish sufi'usion outwards, and covered with minute black 

 atoms, no other markings. 



Female, like the male, both above and below, but on the upperside the costal band 

 of the forewing and the basal irrorations on both wings are lighter and more irrorated 

 with blue-grey scales ; the ground colour is also generally paler, though in some 

 examples it is as dark and bright as in the male ; on the underside the inner portion of 

 the Forewing is more brightly suff"used with salmon-pink, the cell spot and the lowest 

 discal spot larger, and the Hindwing is usually uniform pale ochreous-pink ; cilia of 

 both sexes pale salmon-pink. 



Expanse, J ?, 1-j^ to l/g- inches. 



Dry-season Brood. 



Male and female much lighter in colour, the borders blackish-brown, instead of 

 deep black, and the sub-apical spots on the forewing whiter, the basal portion of the 

 wings greyer, as is also the costal band of the forewing. Underside sufi"used with pale 

 pinkish, yellowish towards the base of the forewing, the black spots smaller. Antennse 

 brownish-black, ringed with white, head, thorax and abdomen black ; on the underside 

 the palpi, thorax and abdomen are yellow. 



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



Habitat. — North-West India, 



Distribution.— We have it from Karachi, Hydrabad, and the Hubb River (Sind), 

 also from Bhooj, Deesa in Eajputana, and the Western Jumna Canal, also from 

 Campbellpur, Punjab (Yerbury) ; it is in the B. M. from Kutch ; the type came from 

 the Punjab, Davidson reports it from Kathiawar. 



COLOTIS PHISADIA. 

 Plate 599, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, ? , 2c, ? (Albino). 

 Pieris PMsadia, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 132 (1819). 



Idmais PMsadia, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. p. 587 (1836). Doubleday, Gen. D. Lep. p. 59 (1847). 



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