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white, the apical rosy area small and very pale, the spots minute in the Forewing 
mostly obliterated in the Hindwing. Female. Forewing white. Hindwing sometimes 
pure white, sometimes faintly tinged with rosy, all the markings pale and small. 
Expanse, £ $ 1^- to 1 x 7 q- inches. 
Habitat. —Sind. 
Distribution. —We took the Dry-season form at Karachi in October and 
November, and what we call the Wet-season form, for the want of a better expression, 
in nearly every other month of the year. We have it also from Sukkur. 
Genus COLOTIS. 
Colotis, Hubner, Verz. bek. Scbmett. p. 97 (1816). Kirby in Allen’s Hat. Hist. Lep. ii. p. 198 (1896) 
Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p, 259 (1907). 
Mancipium, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. 1829, p. 141. 
Idmais, Boisduval (part), Spec. Gen. Lep. i. p. 584 (1836). Doubleday, Gen. Diurnal, Lep. p. 5 
(1847). 
Wings small. Forewing a little elongated, more or less triangular, costal margin 
straighter with the apex more acuminate than in Callosune ; costal vein extending to 
half the margin, neuration as in Callosune , fore tarsi short in female; general 
coloration and pattern white, or salmon-pink with broad outer marginal black borders 
to both wings ; sex marks slight, variable, sometimes not distinguishable. 
Type, C. Amata , Fabr., from Africa. 
Note. — Cyprsea , JDgnamine , Modesties , Protractus and Phisadia belong to the 
salmon-pink group, and Vestal is and the others to the white groups, all the species 
of the genus having black borders to both wings. Watson and Bingham have 
sunk the three first with Calais to the type form Amata from Africa, but though 
superficially resembling each other to some extent, the fact that Cyprsea and Modesties 
are forest and garden insects and Dynamine belongs exclusively to desert tracts and 
sandy districts is sufficient evidence to show they cannot be one and the same species, 
besides which we possess seasonal forms of all three. During all the years we were 
collecting in Bombay and the forest and garden lands along the coast w'e never took a 
single example of Dynamine ; nor similarly, after many months collecting in Karachi 
where Dynamine in all its seasonal forms was common, or in any part of Sind from 
Sukkur to the coast, did we ever capture a single example resembling either Cyprsea 
or Modestus. Cyprsea , Modesties and Dynamine have in the male a patch of 
specialized scales on the upper side of the Hindwing , extending from the subcostal 
vein to the costal margin, no glandular patch on the Forewing, but the low T er margin is 
slightly convex. All the other Indian forms have a small glandular patch on the 
upperside of the Forewing above the median nervure. All the different forms of the 
