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end of the cell, a rather broad apical black band gradually narrowing hindward to the 

 lower angle, with three large spots of the ground colour in it in a row, sometimes there 

 is a minute spot above and another below this row, and some pale dots on the margin, 

 some grey scales at the base. Hindwing with a band of largish square spots on the 

 exterior margin, at the ends of the veins. Underside pale ochreous, the forewing 

 tinged with salmon colour, a large black oval white-centred spot at the end of the cell 

 of the forewing, a red-brown, white-centred cell spot on hindwing, and a discal band of 

 red-brown spots across both wings. 



Female above and below marked like the male, the spots a little larger, the ground 

 colour nearly always white, every example in the B. M. collection is pure white, and in 

 most examples there are indications of a discal band of black spots on the hindwings 

 above ; on the underside the edges of the wings are tinged with pink, the spots large 

 and dark, nearly black on the forewing. 



Expanse, $ % 2 inches. 



Dry -season Brood (Figs. 2c, $, 2d, ?, 2e, ^). 



Male. Upperside paler than in the other form. Forewing, with the irrorations of 

 the costa and at the base very feeble, the cell spot smaller, the apical band paler in 

 colour and not continued to the lower angle. Hindwing with the exterior band hardly 

 indicated, there being merely three or four faint marks on it. Underside very pale, the 

 markings the same, but very feeble and of a pinkish-ochreous colour. 



Female. Often white like the Wet-season form, sometimes tinged with salmon 

 colour, always paler than the male. Upperside, the markings darker than in the male, 

 the hindwing generally with well-marked black marginal spots. Underside, the 

 markings are similarly placed, but the discal bands are broad, well pronounced and of a 

 pinkish-brown colour. 



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



Habitat. — Ceylon, Southern India. 



Distribution. — We took it on the small hills above Poona, and at Purundhur 

 Mountain near Poona, we have it also from Madras and the Nilgiris, it is in the B. M. 

 from Ceylon, Ganjam and Khandesh. Moore records it from Orissa. 



ALLIED ARABIAN SPECIES. 



Teracolus Protomedia, Pontia Protomcdia, Klug, Symb. Phys. Ins. pi. 8, figs. 13, 14 (1829). 



Teracolus Areiiicolens, Butler, Eiit. Mo. Mag. 1884, p. 81. 



Teracolus Pletone, Pontia Pleione, Klug, I.e. figs. 7, 8 (1829), Teracolus Pleione, Swinhoe, Proc. Zciol. 

 See. 1884, p. 436. Guy Marshall, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 14. Sipwnijm, Idmais Miriam, 

 Felder, Reise Nov. p. 190, pi. 27, figs. 3 and 4 (1865). Teracolus Chrysomela, Butler, Cist. 

 Ent. 1874, p. 244. Idmais Echeria, Mabille, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1879, p. 174. 



