often the same species have many examples of both females, many females also exhibit 

 Albino patches. 



The Larvse are green, smooth, pubescent, and feed on Leguminosse. The Pupa 

 is pointed in front. 



Watson's Eriocolias is intended to include the Hyale group, in which the 

 border is often streaked, but never spotted in the male ; the principal character is 

 that the males have, on the upperside of the hindwings, between the costal and 

 sub-costal nervures, a patch of modified scales of a smaller size, and much more 

 numerous than the surrounding scales, usually of the same ground colour ; in the old 

 genus Coltas (our Eurymus) Watson proposes to retain the orange species in which 

 these scales are wanting [E. Chrysotheme, Esper, etc.) and the sub-group represented 

 by E. Phiconome, Esper, improperly indicated as the type, as it is not even one of the 

 species mentioned in Illiger's Mag. ; pending a critical examination of the numerous 

 species of this genus, which might probably reveal other characters of greater 

 importance, we content ourselves by calling attention to Watson's genus, without 

 adopting at present a sub-division which would separate species so much resembling 

 each other as C. Hyale and C. Chrysotheme, solely on a secondary sexual character, 

 however well marked or constant. 



EURYMUS ERATE. 



Plate 602, figs. 1, ^, la, ?, lb, $ (AYet-season Brood), Ic, J (Albino), Id, ^, le, ? (Dry-season 



Brood). 

 Fafilio Erate, Esper, Ausl. Schmett. i. (2), pi. 119, fig. 3 (1806). 

 Colias Erate, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 409; id. 1881, p. 607; id. 1886, p. 370. Elwes, 



Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 23. Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1882, p. 3. Moore, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1882, p. 255. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, p. 344. Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 



1888, p. 196. Mackinnon and de NiceviUe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 588. Leslie 



and Evans, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1903, p. 675. 

 Colias Neriene, Fischer, Ent. Ross. ii. Lap. p. 251, pi. 11, figs. 3, 4 (1823). 

 Colias Hyale, Butler (nee Linnseus), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 727, and 1874, p. 273. Moore, 



2nd Yarkand Miss. p. 4 (1879). Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 136. Bingham 



(part). Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 234 (1907). 

 Colias lativitta, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 255. 



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



Imago. — ^Male. Upperside lemon-yellow. Forewing with a small space at the 

 base irrorated with dark-grey scales, costal line to the outer band also with grey scales, 

 its base usually with a short orange streak, an oval black spot at the end of the cell, a 

 deep black immaculate band on the exterior border, commencing on the costa one-third 

 from the apex, its inner margin oblique outwardly to vein 4, then runs down to the 



