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LEPIDOPTEBA INDIGA. 
male, but the lowest diseal spot, though larger than the others, does not expand hind- 
wards on to the lower margin as it always does in the male. Hindwing tinted with 
ochreous-pink, usually without markings, sometimes with indications of the discal 
whorl of spots. Cilia of both sexes white. 
Antennae, head, thorax and. abdomen black, the antennae speckled and tipped with 
white, the thorax clothed with long, bluish-grey hairs; on the underside the palpi, 
thorax and abdomen are white. 
Expanse, £ $ 1 T % to 1 x 7 q- inches. 
Dry-season Brood (Figs. 3d, 3e, 3f, A 3g, ?). 
Male and Female. Upperside much as in the other form. The basal irrorations 
paler and the bands somewhat narrower. Underside with the forewings similar, but 
the spots are sensibly smaller, and the hindwings of both sexes are strongly tinted 
with ochreous-pink. 
Expanse, $ $ 1 T 5 X to 1 T 6 X inches. 
Habitat. — North-West and Central India. 
Distribution. —W e have it from the Hubb River, Sukkur, Larkana, Hydrabad and 
Karachi (Sind), also from Deesa in Rajputana; Bisnagar, Khandesh and Bhooj. 
Yerbury took it at Campbellpur and Chittar Paliar in the Punjab, and it is in the 
B. M. from Wurzeerabad. 
C0L0TIS VESTALIS. 
Plate 600, figs. 1, J , la, $, lb, lc, £ (Wet-season Brood = Dubius), Id, le, $ (Dry-season 
Brood). 
Teracolus Vestalis, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 135, pi. 7, fig. 10, $; id. 1881, p. 608; id. 1883, 
p. 152. Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, pp. 438 and 509. Watson (part), Journ. Bo. Nat. 
Hist. Soc. 1894, p. 520. Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 519 ; id. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1897, 
p. 390. Guy Marshall, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 11. Sharpe, Monog. Gen. Teracolus, i. p. 18, 
pi. 6, figs. 1, la, lb, lc, and If (1898). Nurse, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1899, p. 513. 
Iclmais Vestalis, Swinhoe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 276. 
Teracolus Peelus , Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, p. 439, pi. 39, fig. 9, $, and p. 509. 
Teracolus Dubius, Swinhoe, Lc. pp. 439 and 509. 
Colotis Vestalis, Bingham (part), Eauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 265 (1907). 
Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1, £, la, ?, lb, £, lc, ?). 
Imago. —Inhabits desert and sandy tracts. Male. Upperside pure white, wings 
somewhat more elongate than in Puellaris. Forewing usually with less basal irrora- 
tion, the bands and spots similar. Hindwing with the marginal band a little narrower. 
Underside as in the male of Puellaris, but the lowest discal spot of the forewing is 
usually smaller than the one above it, and is always well separated from the lower 
margin, whereas in Puellaris, as in Protractus and Phisadia , it is the largest and always 
expands hindwards on to the lower margin. 
