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middle, a white round spot at the end of the cell, with a small one above it, both ringed 

 with orange-red, a diseal whorl of orange-red dots; cilia of both wings orange-red; 

 the costal line of the hindwing of the same colour. 



Female. Upperside white ; fore and hindwings marked as in the male. Under- 

 side markings also similar, but the white ground colour of the wings gives them a 

 brighter appearance. 



Expanse, $ $ 1^ inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Fig. lb, ^). 



Male and female only differ from the Wet-season form in being smaller and paler 

 with the bands narrower, the yellow spots above large, and all the spots below more or 

 less faintly indicated. 



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



Habitat. — Madras Hills. 



Distribution. — In our collection from the Nilgiri Hills, both forms ; in the B. M. 

 from the Pulni Hills ; Wallace records it from Malabar, and Fergusson from 

 Travancore. 



EURYMUS SHIPKEE. 



Plate 603, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, ? . 



Colias ShipJcee, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 492, pi. 31, fig. 13. 



Colins Ladakensis, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. ii. p. 197, pi. 27, figs. 8, 9, ^ (1865). "Wallace, 



Trans. Ent. Soc. 1867, p. 391. Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 254. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



1884, p. 24. Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 589. Bingham, 



Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 236 (1907). Verity, Rhop. Palearctica, p. 229, pi. 41, figs. 30, 



32 (1909). 



Imago. — Male. Forewhig rich primrose-yellow, in some individuals having an 

 orange tint on the disc of forewing ; exterior margin broadly black, the inner margin 

 of the band curved and sinuous and not sharply defined, the band broadest at the apex, 

 a series of large yellow, more or less spear-shaped, spots within the band, a black spot 

 closing the cell, in some examples this spot is annular, enclosing a yellow centre ; cilia 

 rosy. Hindwing primrose-yellow, more or less suffused in different individuals wdth 

 dusky irrorations ; a band of acute oval large yellow spots on the exterior margin, 

 their edges more or less defined with black ; cell closed by a very faintly defined 

 orange spot ; cilia rosy. Underside. Forewing paler yellow, the black margin of the 

 upperside faintly visible, and of a greenish-grey colour, and having also indistinctly 

 the series of yellow spots ; the veins and the costal margin also greenish-grey, a black 

 spot closing the cell as above. Hindwing dull dark greenish-grey ; exterior margin 

 showing the form of the spots of the upperside ; a rufous spot with silvery centre at 



