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T. partita Walk. G Forewing white; the terminal half obliquely purple, including an irregular interrupted partita. 
undulating black band with two exterior black marks and bounded internally by an undulating black line; 
hindwing pale yellow broadly bordered with pale fawn colour. Arabia. 
Sect. II. Veins 3, 4 of hindwing from cell. 
T. nitidula F. (= catena Sow., elegans Stph.) (27 f). Forewing silvery white; an oblong olive brown nitidula. 
patch from costa near base to median nervure, and a triangular patch on middle of costa; terminal area broadly 
olive brown shading to purple grey, with the indistinct dark curved outer line near its inner edge, commenc¬ 
ing on the white area just below costa; a curved white subterminal line with very short streaks on the veins 
from it to a fine white line just before termen enclosing a series of spots, that above tornus being blackish; 
fringe white tinged with brown at tips; hindwing white ; the veins of terminal area tinged with brown; the termen 
suffused with brown narrowing to tornus in the <$, confined to apical area in the Recorded from the Pun¬ 
jab, Sind, Bombay, Madras, and Burma; also from Africa. 
T. catenula Walk. (27 f). Forewing purplish grey suffused with olive brown; an oblique white streak catenula. 
on basal part of vein 1; an oblique white band from costa before middle to just below median nervure, its 
extremity produced to a point at lower angle of cell; a quadrate white outer patch from costa to vein 6, 
its inner edge slightly angled below costa, the punctiform black outer line rising from it, incurved below vein 4; 
a fine white subterminal line, bent outwards to termen just above tornus, below vein 5 produced as slight 
white streaks on the veins to a fine white line before the terminal series of black points; fringe grey brown, 
with dark middle line and white patch above tornus; hindwing white, with redbrown terminal band narrow¬ 
ing to a point at tornus, in $ wholly tinged with red brown; fringe white. Recorded from Sind, Madras, 
and Ceylon. 
T. olivacea Hmps. (27 f). Forewing with the basal and costal areas silvery white, the costa itself olive olivacea. 
brown, the apical area tinged with yellow, the rest of wing olive brown suffused with blue white and edged 
above with diffused yellow; a brownish cell lunule defined by white; outer line whitish, defined on each side 
by yellowish, oblique and sinuous from cell fold to inner margin; a terminal series of slight dark lunules 
inwardly defined by a waved white line; fringe white tinged with brown; hindwing olive brown; the basal 
area in $ whitish; fringe whitish at tips. The type from the Nilgiri Hills, Madras; also recorded from Christ¬ 
mas Island; in Tring Museum a specimen from the Naga Hills and Mao, N. Manipur; the species occurs also at 
Shanghai in Central China. 
T. opalinoides Gum. (— postica Walk.) (27 f). Forewing pure white; subbasal and inner lines double, opalinoides. 
grey, waved; orbicular stigma defined by lateral grey dots; reniform incompletely hoop shaped, open below, fol¬ 
lowed by some grey suffusion; a small triangular grey spot at middle of costa; patches of red brown and silvery 
blue scales on apical area and on inner area from lower angle of cell to tornus; outer line from a dark spot 
on costa, indistinctly double and minutely waved, strongly incurved below vein 4 to below end of cell, and 
bearing some raised black scales in the submedian interspace; subterminal line of faint whitish marks defined 
on inner side by slight blackish marks; a terminal row of black striae; fringe white with brown spots towards 
apex; hindwing semihyaline white, the termen suffused with brown, either narrowing to tornus, or confined to 
apical area. Bengal, Bombay, Madras, Burma; also occurs in E. Africa. 
T. rufitincta Hmps. Forewing whitish tinged with flesh colour; subbasal and inner lines double, rufitincta. 
greyish, waved; reniform defined by slight black bars at sides; a greyish patch on middle of costa; outer 
line from a small greyish spot on costa, slightly outbent below costa, then blackish, double, minutely waved, 
slightly inbent on cell fold, below vein 4 bent inwards to below end of cell; the area beyond it brown mixed 
with silvery purple; subterminal line indistinct, whitish, defined inwardly by black and brown marks, length¬ 
ened below costa; a white patch at middle of terminal area; a row of black terminal striae; fringe white 
with blackish patches towards apex and at tornus; hindwing ochreous white suffused with brownish, especially 
towards termen; fringe yellowish white at apex, Avith the base brown. Gooty, Madras; a single 9. 
T. notabilis Walk. (27 f). Forewing creamy white; subbasal line interrupted, black and waved; inner notabilis. 
line marked on costa by an obliciue wedge shaped mark and by one or more points in submedian interspace; 
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