COLIINJE. 
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2 and 3. Hindwing irrorated with black and grey scales, a black dot at the end of 
the cell, the discal spots showing through the wing. 
Female. Above and below similar to the male, but paler in colour, the costal 
black band of the hindwing above is absent, and all the salmon-coloured spots on both 
wings are larger; hindwing below with a large cell spot and a discal whorl of grey 
conjoined spots ; there are also many Albinos (fig. Id). 
Expanse, J $ 1 t 8 q- inches. 
Dry-season Brood (Figs, le, J, If, $). 
Male. Coloured above and below much as in the other form, but the b]ack band 
round the wings is much narrower and the black spot above the lower margin near the 
angle is disconnected from the marginal band. 
Female. Paler than the male, often whitish, not differing from the markings of 
the male except in the absence as usual of the costal band on the hind wing. 
Expanse, J £ 1^ inches. 
Larva feeds on Avicennia Tomontosa, called by the natives Sairi; it is slender, 
cylindrical and rough in the upper surface like the larva of Terias ; on examination 
with a strong lens, this roughness proves to be due to minute tubercles on each of 
which grows a short black bristle ; each side above the base of the legs is fringed with 
somewhat longer white hairs; the colour is grass-green above, with a dark blue dorsal 
line very narrowly bordered with yellow; the underside is paler bottle-green, a lateral 
yellowish line separating the two tints. 
Pupa very similar in form to that of Terias , and of a dingy whitey-brown colour. 
The aspect of this pupa confirms my general impression that this species is much 
nearer to Terias than to some of the species with which it has been lumped under the 
name Teracolus (Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 39). 
Davidson’s description of larva and pupa is very similar (Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 
Soc. 1890, p. 359, and 1897, p. 572), except that he found the larva feeding on Salvadora 
Persica , and that the pupa is suspended by the tail, like the pupa of Terias, with 
a moderately long band. 
Habitat. —Southern India. 
Distribution. —We have it from Bombay, Poona, Ahmednuggar and Karwar ; it 
is in the B. M. from Nassic, Bangalore and Kolar; Hampson records it from the 
Nilgiris, Watson from Mysore. 
C0L0TIS MODESTUS. 
Plate 598, figs. 3, £, 3a, 9 (Wet-season Brood), 3b, $ (Diy-season Brood). 
Teracolus Modestus, Butler, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 137. Watson, Journ. Bo. Hat. Hist. Soc. 1894, 
p. 520. 
Idmais Modestus, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 131, pi. 49, figs. 2, $, 2a, 9 (1381). 
