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male, but the lowest discal spot, tliough larger tlian tlie others, does not expand hind- 

 Avards on to the lower margin as it always does in the male. Hindwing tinted with 

 ochreous-ppk, usually without markings, sometimes with indications of the discal 

 whorl of spots. Cilia of both sexes white. 



Antennte, head, thorax and abdomen black, the antennae speckled and tipped with 

 white, the thorax clothed with long, bluish-grey hairs ; on the underside the palpi, 

 thorax and abdomen are white. 



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



Dry-season Brood (Figs. 3d, ^, 3e, ?, 3f, ?, 3g, ?). 

 Male and Female. Upperside much as in the other form. The basal irrorations 

 paler and the bands somewhat narrower. Underside with the forewings similar, but 

 the spots are sensibly smaller, and the hindwings of both sexes are strongly tinted 

 with ochreous-pink. 



Expanse, $ % lyo to li% inches. 

 Habitat.— North- West and Central India. 



Distribution. — We have it from the Hubb Eiver, Sukkur, Larkana, Hydrabad and 

 Karachi (Sind), also from Deesa in Rajputana ; Bisnagar, Khandesh and Bhooj. 

 Yerbury took it at Campbellpur and Chittar Pahar in the Punjab, and it is in the 

 B. M. from Wurzeerabad. 



COLOTIS VESTALIS. 

 Plate 600, figs. 1, <^, la, ?, lb, $ , \c, ? (Wet-season Brood = Bubius), Id, ^ , le, ? (Dry-season 



Brood). 

 Teracolus Vestalis, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 135, pi. 7, fig. 10, $ ; id. 1881, p. 608; id. 1883, 

 p. 152. Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, pp. 438 and 509. Watson (part), Journ. Bo. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. 1894, p. 520. Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 519 ; id. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1897, 

 p. 390. Guy Marshall, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 11. Sharpe, Monog. Gen. Teracolus, i. p. 18, 

 pi. 6, figs. 1, la, lb, Ic, and If (1898). Nurse, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1899, p. 513. 

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

 Teracolus Peelus, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, p. 439, pi. 39, fig. 9, <J , and p. 509. 

 Teracolus Buhius, Swinhoe, I.e. pp. 439 and 509. 

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



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1, $, la, ?, lb, $, Ic, ?). 

 Imago. — Inhabits desert and sandy tracts. Llale. Upperside pure white, wings 

 somewhat more elongate than in Puellaris. Forewing usually with less basal irrora- 

 tiou, the bands and spots similar. Hindwing with the marginal band a little narrower. 

 Underside as in the male of PuMaris, but the lowest discal spot of the forewing is 

 usually smaller than the one above it, and is always well separated from the lower 

 margin, whereas in Puellaris, as in Protractus and Phisadia, it is the largest and always 

 expands hindwards on to the lower margin. 



