COLIINJE, 
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Female. Upperside white and marked like the male, but the bands are of a paler 
tint and the basal irrorations are much more extensive. Underside. .Forewing white 
tinted with yellow, the spots as in the male, the lowest discal spot almost always the 
smallest of the three, often minute and obscure, the borders tinted with pale flesh 
colour. Hindwing darker than the forewing, tinted with pale flesh colour, and with a 
discal whorl of brown conjoined spots, more or less complete. 
Expanse, t ¥ lyir t° l r 9 o- inches. 
Dry -season Brood (Figs. Id, L le, $). 
Male. Upperside white, the general markings as in the Wet-season form, but the 
bands on both wings are reduced to almost half the width, the basal irrorations are 
much less, the white spots in the outer band of the forewing are larger, and the costal 
space up to the end of the cell is whitish irrorated with ochreous scales, and from 
thence to the apical band is pure white, the outer band of the hindwing never reaches 
the anal angle. Underside as in the Wet-season form, but the spots small. 
Female. Like the Wet-season form, but the bands on the upperside usually 
very pale and narrow, the spots obscure; similar also on the underside, the spots 
small, the lowest discal spot minute, the discal band of the hindwing obsolescent. 
Expanse, £ ¥ 1 t 7 q- to Iinches. 
In both forms there are occasional females, varying in colour from sulphur-yellow 
to pale yellow = Peelus. 
Habitat.— North-West India. 
Distribution - . —In our collection from Karachi, Hydrabad, the Hubb Fiver (Sind), 
Deesa (Bajputana). Nurse records it from Kutch, and Yerbury took it at Campbellpur 
(Punjab). 
COLOTIS INTERMISSUS. 
Plate 600, figs. 2, $, 2a, ?, 2b, $, 2c, $ (Wet-season Brood), 2d, 2e, ? , 2f, £, 2g, ? (Dry- 
season Brood). 
Teracolus Intermissus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 152. 
Teracolus Ochreipennis, Swinhoe (nec Butler), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, p. 438. 
Teracolus Vestalis, "Watson (part), Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1894, p. 520. Sharpe, Monog, Gen. 
Teracolus, i. p. 18, pi. 6, figs. Id, le (1898). 
Colotis Vestalis, Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 265 (1907). 
Wet-season Brood (Figs. 2, $ 9 2a, 2b, £, 2c, ?). 
Imago. —Inhabits desert and sandy districts. Male. Upperside white, the bands 
and markings as in the Dry-season form of Vestalis. Underside. Forewing tinted 
with yellow, the outer borders tinted with pinkish flesh colour. Hindwing in freshly 
emerged specimens dark pinkish flesh colour, the black band showing slightly through 
the wing, the entire wing covered with minute black atoms. 
