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LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 
the inner side of the patch has no black markings. Hind wing with a row of small 
discal spots and blackish spots on the exterior border on the veins. Underside. 
Forewing with a spot at the end of the cell, the crimson patch showing through the 
wing, with a whorl of blackish spots across its middle. Hindwing much as in the 
male, but tinged with pink. 
Expanse, £ 9 1 T %- inches. 
Habitat. —Ceylon and Southern India. 
Distribution. —Taken by us at Bombay, Nagar, Khandesh and Bangalore; 
Watson records it from Mysore, and Hampson from the Nilgiris. 
CALLOSUNE DULCIS. 
Plate 596, figs. 1, $, la, 9 , lb, <?, lc, ? (Wet-season Brood = Eboreoides), Id, $, le, 9 , If, $ 
(Intermediate Porm = Dims), lg (Immaculate Porm = Immaculatus), lb, , li, 9 , ] j, $, lk, 
9 (Dry-season Brood = Dulcis). 
Teracolus Dulcis, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 157, pi. 7, fig. 13, $ 9 ; id. 1881, p. 610. Swinhoe, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, p. 509. 
Callosune Dulcis , Swinhoe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 277. 
Teracolus Dims, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 157, pi. 7, fig. 11, $ 9 ; id. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
1880, p. 222 ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 610. 
Teracolus Eboreoides, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 158, pi. 7, fig. 12, $ 9 . 
Teracolus Immaculatus, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, p. 443; id. p. 510. 
Teracolus Danae, Watson (part), Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1894, p. 521. Nurse (nec Fabricius), 
Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1899, p. 513. 
Teracolus Eupomjpe, Guy Marshall (part), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 22. 
Colotis Danae, Bingham (part), Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 271 (1907). 
Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1, £, la, 9, lb, lc, 9). 
Imago.— A desert insect.—Male. Upperside white. Forewing with thick grey 
scales on the basal fourth, costal line black, apical carmine patch smaller than in Danae, 
the outer and costal black margins about as broad, the inner margin much broader, 
narrowing hind ward, to the lower angle, a black dot at the end of the cell. Hindwing 
white, the grey scales at the base less pronounced, the black band on the exterior 
border composed of large angulated spots on the veins, more or less touching each 
other. Underside white. Forewing with a black spot at the end of the cell, generally 
with a pale centre, the carmine colour faintly showing through at the apical portion, a 
whorl of well pronounced black almost square spots across its middle, some short 
blackish streaks on the outer border, two, sometimes three, large blackish spots hind- 
wards, the lowest usually much smaller than the other two. Hindwing with two small 
black spots with crimson between them at the end of the cell, a discal whorl of 
duplicate blackish spots and some short blackish marginal streaks on the veins; outer 
marginal line on both wings black, cilia white. 
