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prominent. Antennae, head, thorax, and abdomen blackish, the two former with 

 salmon-buff hairs, abdomen with similar coloured scaling, club of antennae also salmon- 

 buif oil the underside. 



Expanse, ^ $ 2 inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. Ic, $, Id, ?). 

 Male. Upperside paler than in the Wet-season form. Forewing with the apical 

 band small, the sub-apical bar and exterior marginal band being well separated and 

 only joined together by some black lines on the veins, the thin marginal band has 

 large spots of the ground colour in it, is much attenuated hindwards and seldom 

 reaches the lower angle. IJindwing with the marginal spots small. Underside pale, 

 the markings similar, but feeble. 



Female. Similar to the male, rather paler in colour, the apical band more 

 extensive, the sub-apical bar continued hindwards to vein 2, connected with the 

 marginal band by black veins forming five or six spots of the ground colour, and a 

 marginal row of well pronounced similarly coloured spots. Underside as in the male, 

 the spots on the bands across the disc of both wings conjoined, those in the forewing 

 sometimes marked with black. 



Expanse, $ $ l-^ to 1^^ inches. 



Habitat. — North-West India, Asia Minor, Persia and Afghanistan. 

 Distribution. — We took it at Karachi, Hydrabad (Sind), Quetta, Kandahar, 

 Ahmedabad, Deesa, and Bisnuggar (Goozerat), and we have it from Fao in the 

 Persian Gulf, Bushire and Bhooj. It is in the B. M. from Turkey, Syria, Lebanon,. 

 Rawul Pindi, Campbellpur, Chittar, Pakar and Kutch, and Butler reports it from 

 Kattiawar and the Berars. 



MADAIS FULVIA. 

 Plate 601, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ?, 2b, $ (Wet-season Brood), 2c, ^ , 2d, $, 2e, i (Dry-season Brood = 



Palliseri). 

 Idmais Fulvia, Wallace, Trans. Ent. See. 1867, p. 392, pi. 9, fig. 5, <J ? . 



Teracolus Fulvia, Butler, Proc. Zool. See. 1876, p. 135. Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 143. 

 Idmais Tripuncta, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 221, pi. 17, fig. 9, $. Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. 



p. 130, pi. 49, figs. 3, 3a, <? ? . Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1897, p. 500. 

 CoJotis Tripuncta, Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 267 (1907). 

 Teracolus Tripmctaius, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 149, pi. 15, fig. 4, ? . Watson, Journ. Bo. 



Nat. Hist. Soc. 1894, p. 518. 

 Idmais Surya, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 45. 

 Teracolus Palliseri, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 418. 



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

 Imago. — Male. Upperside ochreous-salmon colour, darker than in Fausta. 

 Foreicing with an iron-grey costal band of scales, a large black nearly oval spot at the 



