160 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Habitat. — Afghanistan, Beloochistan and the Himalayas. 



Distribution. — We caught it flying with Erate in the same localities and quite as 

 numefous, and it appears to extend throughout the same regions. There are many 

 more Albino females than in Erate ; the types came from Cashmir ; we have it from 

 many localities in North-Western India. 



EUETMUS CHRYSODONA. 



Plate 603, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2c, ? (Wet-season Brood), 2b, ,? , 2d, ? (Dry-season Brood). 

 Culias Neriene, var. Chrijsodona, Boisduval, Gen. Ind. Mith. p. 7 (1840). 

 Colias Hj/ale, var. Chrijsodona, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 23. 



Colias Erate ah. Ghrysodona, Verity, Rhop. Palearctica, p. 219, pi. 40, figs. 27, 28 (1909). 

 CoUas Neriene, Wallace (uec Fischer), Trans. Ent. Soc. 1867, p. 391. 

 Colias EelicMa, Lederer, Verb. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, ii. p. 33 (1853). Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, 



p. 408. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 188.5, p. 343. 

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



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



Imago. Male. Upperside deep orange-yellow. Forewing with a small patch of 

 blackish irrorations at the base, costal line orange, a large nearly round black spot at 

 the end of the cell, and a broad black outer marginal band, occupying one-fourth of 

 the wing, broadest at the apex, its inner edge oblique towards the outer margin, then 

 almost even in width to the lower margin, its inner edge as usual irregular ; cilia white 

 and pink. Hindwing with the basal two-thirds lightly irrorated with blackish-grey 

 scales, a large orange spot at the end of the cell ; costal space pale, an apical short 

 black band not reaching the anal angle, its inner edge irregular. Underside pale 

 chrome-yellow. Forewing with a round black, white-centred cell spot, and a discal 

 row of black spots, decreasing in size upwards, and two brown costal spots on their 

 inner side. Hindwing with green irrorations, a brown sub-apical, costal spot, a large 

 round white cell spot with a small one above it, both ringed with orange-brown, and a 

 discal row of brown dots ; cilia whitish. 



Female. Upperside varying ia colour, from deep orange-yellow to pale chrome- 

 yellow. Forewing with the cell spot larger, and the marginal band broader than in 

 the male, containing five or six pale spots, usually paler than the ground colour, four 

 from the costa, a large one below the middle and very often a small one beneath ; a 

 few grey irrorations at the base of the wing. Hindwing with a band of faintly 

 indicated, very large spots on the exterior border, outwardly, and at the apex heavily, 

 marked with black, the inner side of the spots faintly marked by a thin blackish band ; 

 the interior portion of the wing irrorated with pale-grey scales ; a large orange spot at 

 the end of the cell ; cilia as in the male. Underside in all respects as in the male. 



Expanse, $ ? 2^ to 2^% inches. 



