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LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
distinct. Underside coloured as in tlie other form, but the bands and spots show much 
more plainly through the wing. 
Female. Upperside paler than in the male, sometimes nearly white. Forewing 
generally with bright salmon-pink suffusion on the basal half, the costal band irrorated 
with yellow scales, not extending beyond the end of the cell, except in a thin costal 
line, all the spots on the outer border larger and complete, there being usually one in 
each interspace. Hindwing as usual without the costal band, some salmon-pink 
suffusion towards the base, but less than in the Forewing ; the exterior black band 
broad and usually well formed, both rows of spots in it being complete. Underside 
like that of the Wet-season form, but the outer marginal space in both wings is always 
paler, and there is usually a very bright salmon-pink suffusion on the basal half of the 
Forewing. 
Expanse, J £ 1^ to 1 T % inches. 
Habitat. —North-Western India, Arabia. 
Distribution. —We have it from Karachi, where it is in great plenty; we took 
the Dry-season form in November and December, 1885, and January, 1886, and what 
we call the Wet-season form in most of the other months of the year; we have the 
Aet form taken in Hydrabad in July, 1886, from Deesa in Bajputana in July, August, 
September and October, in Ahmedabad in September, and we have it from Bhooj ; 
Butler records it from Agra, Mynpuri, the Punjab and Kathiawar; we also have many 
examples of both forms taken by us at Aden. 
COLOTIS PROTRACTUS. 
Plate 599, figs. 1, la, $, lb, $. 
Teracolus Protrcictus, Butler, Proc. Zool. See. 1876, p. 137; id. 1881, p. 609; id. 1886, p. 372. 
Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, p. 508. Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 40. 
Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 200; id. 1897, p. 388. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 
Soc. 1894, p. 520. Buy Marshall, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 10. Sharpe, Monog. Gen. Teracolus, 
i. p. 9, pi. 2, figs. 1, la to lc (1898). Nurse, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1899, p. 513. 
Idmais Protractus, Swinhoe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 276. 
Golotis Protractus , Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 263 (1907). 
Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1 J, la lb $). 
Imago. —Inhabits desert and sandy tracts. Male. Upperside bright salmon- 
pink, much darker and brighter than in any of the preceding species, and more 
uniform. Foreimng with very broad deep black borders, leaving but a little more than 
the disc down to the lower margin salmon-pink, the basal fourth being densely 
irrorated with black and blue-grey scales; the costal band comes down to the sub-costal 
vein, it fills nearly the upper half of the cell, and is joined to the large black spot at 
the end of the cell, which usually closes it; the apical portion of the outer band is 
