148 LEPWOPTEBA INDICA. 



Teracolus Phisadia, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 136. Swiuhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, p. 439. 

 Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1894, p. 520. Butler, I.e. 1896, p. 245, pi. 10, fig. 13 

 (Pupa). Guy Marshall, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 10. Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1897, 

 p. 38)9. Sharpe, Monog. Gen. Teracolus, i. p. 12, pi. 3, figs, la to Ig (1889). 



Cohtis Phisadia, Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p, 264 (1907). 



Pontia Arne, Klug, Symb. Phys. pi. 7, figs. 1 to 4, (J ? (1829). 



Idmais Arne, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. D. Lep. p. 587, pi. 19, fig. 2 (1836). 



Teracolus Arne, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1876, p. 487. Manders, Ent. Monthly Mag. 1890, 

 p. 16. Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 527. 



Idmais Philamene, Mabille, Comptes Rend. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1880, p. cvi. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing salmon-pink, paler than in Protractus,\)&?,s\ 

 area with black and blue-grey scales, costal band imperfect, narrow and with black and 

 blue-grey scales, the salmon-pink portion consequently much more extensive, a large 

 black, usually round spot at the end of the cell with a black streak running inwards 

 from it, outer band much as in Protractus, but with a deeper curve on its upper margin 

 below the apex and another below the middle. The spots larger, and of the ground 

 colour of the wing, the lower one large and square. Hindwing as in Protractus, but 

 the ground colour is pure white, with a few blue-grey scales at the base. Underside'; 

 l)oth wings as in Protractus. 



Female. Upperside. Forewing paler than in the male, the costal band broader, 

 more perfect and blackish-brown, the outer band much as in the male, but browner and 

 with some pale pinkish spots on the exterior margin. Hindwing as in the male, but 

 the exterior band is more brown, and paler, and there are some pale pinkish spots 

 on the exterior margin. Underside. Both wings pale yellowish, tinged with pink, 

 darkest on the costa of the forewing and the outer borders of both wings, the spots on 

 the forewing larger, the cell spot usually white-centred ; a small spot white-centred at 

 the end of the cell in the hindwing, and indications of a discal whorl of conjoined brown 

 spots. The general colour in this sex is sometimes yellowish above, with the base of 

 the forewing suffused with salmon-pink, sometimes without this suffusion, and sometimes 

 both wings are white. 



Expanse, ^ $ 2 inches. 



Larva found feeding on Salvadora Persica at Aden ; pea-green when young, two 

 black spots on back of head, a white mark almost the shape of an ace of diamonds, but 

 rather large on the second segment, when older the black spots on head disappear, and 

 the white mark gets clearer and is outlined with black ; there are two similar marks 

 just beyond the centre of the back, the front being the smaller, and another similar 

 mark on the eleventh segment. (Nurse, Butler's Memoir, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 245.) 



Pupa. — Pinkish-grey with the segments well marked, rests on its tail and is tied 

 to the wood by a silk thread; well figured by Butler, Proc, Zool. Soc. 1896, plate 10, 

 fig. 13. 



