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an oblique quadrate spot from middle of costa; terminal area olive brown shading to purple grey, its inner 
edge angled below vein 7 and incurved below the cell; outer line black, dentate, excurved to vein 4, then 
incurved; subterminal line white, with elongate black marks beyond it from costa to vein 5 and a black lunule 
above tornus, dentate, with the veins beyond it streaked with white, except towards apex and tornus; a 
fine white line just before termen; fringe white, tinged with purplish towards apex, and with a series of purple 
grey points near base ; hindwing semihyaline white; the veins tinged with brown; the termen suffused with brown 
from apex to vein 2. Occurs in the Punjab and Bengal. 
hortensis. T. hortensis Swinh. (27 h). $ Forewing white, the base slightly grey; a black spot in cell near 
base; inner line double, waved, fuscous; terminal area purple grey, suffused with red brown, its inner edge 
oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved; reniform incompletely defined by black; outer line 
black, edged externally with white, starting from a quadrate white costal patch, inangled on cell fold, in¬ 
curved below vein 4, and excurved at vein 1; subterminal line white inwardly defined by brown and fol¬ 
lowed by white in places; a terminal series of black striae and a spot above tornus; fringe purplish brown, 
with a white patch above tornus; hindwing white; the costal area towards apex and the terminal to vein 2 
suffused with brown; in the $ the basal area of fore wing is more suffused with grey; the hindwing wholly 
reddish brown, darker towards termen. The type from Karachi, Sind: also occurs in the Sudan and at Sokotra. 
lucida. T. lucida Hujn. (= Solaris Schijj., rupicola Bkh ., titania Frr. nec Esp., triradiata Walk., triangulum 
Costa) (Vol. 3, pi. 52 i). Forewing white in basal half, with a grey tinge at base; a black spot in cell 
beyond the grey subbasal striga; an oblique fuscous bar from costa and slight mark above inner margin 
in place of inner line ; orbicular stigma minute, a bluish white ring; reniform 8-shaped, finely edged with bluish 
white; terminal area olive brown shading to purple grey at termen; a quadrate white costal patch beyond middle, 
the outer line rising from it, lunulate and blackish, strongly incurved below 4, marked on submedian fold by 
a black and grey spot, and followed by a waved white line from vein 3 to inner margin; subterminal line 
white, the veins beyond it in lower half white; hindwing white, with diffuse dark streaks from base at costa 
albicollis. and inner margin and along median vein; a broad blackish terminal border; — in the ab. albicollis F. (Vol. 
3, pi. 52 i) the head, thorax, basal half of forewing, and often the dorsum as well, are wholly white, the dark 
lugens. border of hindwing being narrower and regular; while lugens Alph. (27 g) has the dark tints amplified, the basal 
area of forewing mostly olive brown, and the hindwing more or less wholly black; both of these forms, however, 
irregularis seem to be connected with typical lucida by intermediates; —- ab. irregularis Warr. (Vol. 3 pi. 52 i) is a form 
of albicollis in which the inner edge of the dark terminal half of forewing is nearly vertical, not cut by the usual 
wedge shaped pale projection; the costal spot before apex is narrow and triangular, while the dark border 
of hindwing is wider as in lucida, with the inner edge towards anal angle irregular; the specimen was taken 
insolairix. along with typical albicollis at Entrevaux, Var, S. France; -—■ in the form insolatrix I I bn. the median 
fascia is narrower, interrupted above middle, and filled in with pale olive yellow instead of purple brown, the 
evanesccns. edging only remaining dark; an extreme form of this ab. evanescens Warr. (Vol. 3 pi. 52 i) has the fascia mark¬ 
ed only by a fuscous costal streak and fuscous spots on inner margin and on outer edge, the white ground 
colour running through to fringe below middle of wing, intersected only by the greyish brown shade before 
submarginal line; in the hindwing the dark terminal border is still narrower and reaches only from apex to vein 
5; this example is from Uralsk. This palaearctic species occurs in the Northwest of India. Larva grey brown 
tinged with red, on dorsum mixed with black and white; spiracular line white; feeds on Malva and Convol¬ 
vulus. 
upsilon. T. upsilon Walk. (27 g). Forewing white with a slight ochreous tinge; subbasal line greenish grey, 
double, waved; inner line double, greenish grey filled in with white, waved, excurved below the cell; orbicular 
and reniform slightly defined by black; the former minute, round, on a greyish patch connected with a patch 
on costa; the latter hoop shaped, open below; terminal area deep red brown; outer line represented by a 
greenish grey bar from costa on the white area and a sinuous blackish line from vein 6, incurved below vein 4, 
preceded by greenish grey clouding beyond the cell and at inner margin; subterminal line dark, sinuous, incurved 
below vein 3 and with slight white points on its outer edge; a fine black terminal line; fringe blackish with 
some white at base, and at tips above tornus; hindwing ochreous whitish; the veins and termen tinged with 
reddish brown; fringe whitish tinged with brown towards apex. Occurs at Poona, Bombay, whence the type of 
tipsilon Walk., and at Shevaroys and Gooty, Madras. 
compta. T. compta Walk. Forewing pale cinereous; a broad reddish brown band very near base, speckled and 
bordered with black, and having along its outer side a narrow white band; space along termen slate colour, 
black speckled, widening downwards, with waved inner edge and including a waved white line; hindwing with 
