COLIINM 149 



Habitat.- — North-West India, Arabia and the opposite African Coast. 



Distribution. — A male of this form is in the Calcutta Museum labelled Surat. 

 Madders is said to have obtained a single specimen at Multan in the Punjab and " one 

 individual captured in a field near Lucknow " (Moore's notes). We admit this species 

 into the Indian Fauna with great hesitation ; there are so many Albinos and partial 

 Albinos in both sexes of the Teracoli, a semi- Albino form of Protractus might so easily 

 be mistaken for Phisadia. We have not been able to examine any one of the above- 

 mentioned specimens. 



COLOTIS PUELLARIS. 



Plate 599, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, ? , 3b, ^ , 3c, ? (Wet-season Brood), 3d, (J , 3e, ? , 3f, <? , 3g, ? (Dry- 

 season Brood = Ochreipennis = Morus). 



Teracolus Puellaris, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 136 ; id. 1881, p. 608; id. 1883, p. 152; 

 id. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1880, p. 222 ; id. 1888, p. 200 ; id. 1897, p. 389. Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1884, pp. 438 and 509. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1894, p. 521. Guy Marshall, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 10. Sharpe, Monog. Gen. Teracolus, i. p. 16, pi. 5, figs. 1, la to Id 

 (1898). Nurse, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1899, p. 513. Aitken and Comber, Journ. Bo. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. 1903, p. 51. 



Idmais Puellaris, Swinhoe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 276. 



Teracolus Oclireipennis, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 136; id. 1881, p. 609; id. 1883, p. 152. 

 Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, p. 509 ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 276. 



Teracolus Borus, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, p. 438, pi. 39, fig. 8, ^ . 



Colotis Vestalis, Bingham (part). Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 265 (1907). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 3, ^, 3a, ?, 3b, $, 3c, ?). 



Imago. Inhabits desert and sandy tracts. Male. Upperside pure white. Pore- 

 wing with the base irrorated with black and blue-grey scales, the cell blackly irrorated 

 except for a small portion at its lower end, a large, generally round, black spot at the 

 end, with a black inward streak, costal line between this and the outer band black with 

 some blue-grey irrorations attached, outer black band much as in Phisadia, but 

 narrower hindwards, the spots in it similarly placed, but pure white. Hindwing with 

 very little grey irrorations at the base, the outer band as broad as in Phisadia, but its 

 inner margin is more irregular ; cilia of both wings white. Underside pale yellow, the 

 outer marginal space of the forewing and the whole of the hindwing deeper yellow, the 

 spots on the forewing as in Phisadia, as are also the unmarked hindwings. 



Female. Upperside white, often slightly tinted with yellow. Foreiving with the 

 cell black, joined to, and often obscuring the large spot at its end, costal line pale, with 

 some ochreous-grey irrorations, the base of the wing irrorated with black and blue- 

 grey scales, the outer band as in the male, but always more or less paler. Hindwing 

 with very little basal irrorations, the outer band variable in width, and paler than in 

 the male. Underside. Forewing white, tinted with pale yellow, the spots as in the 



