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HEBOMOIA. By H. Fruhstorjer. 
phisadia. 
vest alls, 
peelus. 
fciusta. 
fulvia. 
palliseri. 
etrida. 
purus. 
limbata. 
danae. 
subroseus. 
sanguinalis. 
taplini. 
eucharis. 
pattens. 
T. phisadia Godt., already discussed in the Palearctic part, p. 57, and figured pi. 23 a. — Pupa 
pale brown, spotted with darker brown, head with very sharp point, wing-cases only slightly keeled. Very 
rare in the Punjaub, where it only appears now and then, like a wandering bird of passage. 
T. vestalis Btlr. (73 c), nowhere rare at the Persian Gulf, occurs in two sharply separated seasonal 
forms, that of the summer (rainy season) light yellowish, that of the winter (dry season) reddish with 
sand-coloured powdering on the hindwing beneath. — peelus Swinli. is an aberration with light canary- 
yellow upper surface. 
T. fausta Oliv. This magnificent Palearctic butterfly (vol. I, p. 56, pi. 23 c) inhabits the countries 
around the Persian Gulf from Baluchistan to Bombay, and in Central India passes gradually into the race 
fulvia Wall. (= tripuncta Btlr.), which is somewhat darker yellow. — The larva has not yet been found 
in India. The butterfly is very rare in Ceylon, where it flies near Trincomali and Manaar in January, is 
very shy and does not settle again when once it has been frightened. — palliseri Btlr. is an extreme dry- 
season form. 
T. etrida Bdv. approaches the African daira King. The rainy-season form etrida Bdv. (73 b, to 
which belongs also the figured as purus, 73 b 3) has the usual broad black bordering to the red sub- 
apical spots of the forewing and the $ is above strongly dotted with black. The winter form purus Btlr. 
(73 b 4) with paler red on the forewing and the black on the upperside of both wings obsolescent. —- 
Larva strongly prolonged anally, uniformly green with yellowish or variegated lateral line above the legs 
and does not fasten the anal end to a twig (Davidson). Pupa with the snout curved upwards, first 
greenish, then grey-white, very beautifully sprinkled with brown. Baluchistan, Kashmir, the whole of 
Anterior India with the exception of Bengal. — limbata Btlr. is the race from Ceylon, which is somewhat 
more prominently marked with black. The butterfly is fond of floating with the wind over the plains 
covered with high grass; it occurs all the year round and is not rare near Trincomali. 
T. danae F. is the most imposing of the Indian Teracolus, yet cannot compare with the magni¬ 
ficence in colouring of its African relatives. The variability of the species exhibits interesting gradations; 
we have figured the rainy-season form; but there are also $$ almost without red on the forewing and 
others with yellow bordering proximally to the black submarginal band of the forewing. $$ of the dry 
season have no proximal black bordering to the ornamental spot of the forewing and this is also reduced 
in the dry-season 3$. The latter are also without the black dots, - sometimes with beautiful red centres, 
on the underside of the hindwing, which assumes a sand-coloured tone, slightly tinged with rose-colour 
(subroseus Swinli.). An intermediate form Butler, named sanguinalis and the extreme dry-season form 
is taplini Swinli. Persia, West and South India, common; very rare and local in Ceylon. 
T. eucharis F. (73 b) may be easily recognised by the yellow instead of red subapical spot of the 
forewing. $ of the rainy season with strong, that of the dry season (= pallens Moore ) with weak, black 
dotting and rose-red instead of yellowish underside to the hindwing. — Larva on Cadaba indica, a C'ap- 
paridea. The butterfly appears in Ceylon in June, then again in December, and flies in warm sunshine, 
also on the bare, wind-swept sea-shore. Common in Bengal, also distributed from Central India to Kanara. 
25. Genus: Sleboitaoia Hbn. 
The largest iVsiatic Pierids constitute this genus, which unites in itself the characters of three 
genera, Catopsilia, Antocharis and Eronia, having in common with the latter the form of the palpi and the 
two free radials. Antenna long, entirely without club and only thickened gradually towards the tip. Four 
subcostals, of which the last two form a short fork. Precostal as in Teracolus ; cell of the hindwing 
elongated, upper discocellular long. — Larva on Capparis, very similar to those of Catopsilia, thick, nar¬ 
rowed at both ends, green with pale lateral stripes and shagreened upperside. Pupa canoe-shaped, pro¬ 
duced at each end into a long point. The genus only embraces two species, which are distributed over 
the whole of South Asia and show a tendency to the development of well separated island races. Of 
especial interest zoogeographically is the contrast between the glaucippe -branches of the Andamans and 
Nias, which are of a relatively uniform colouring, contrasting sharply with the continental Indo-Sumatran 
region, and the wide differences between leucippe from the Southern and glaucippe from the Northern 
Moluccas. The former phenomenon might be explained by the connection of the Andamans, Nias and 
Mentawej in tertiary times. The snow-white or yellow butterflies with brilliant red spot are quite an 
ornament to the tropical landscapes. The <$<$ mostly fly in the morning and remain at the edges of paths 
and woods and in open thickets. In Ceylon, Java and Tonkin I found them drinking at Lantana floAvers. 
Not until the middle of the day do they settle on moist sand. The $$ do not usually fly far and are 
rather sluggish; they prefer to remain in the thickets, from which, for instance in Celebes, I beat them out 
