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CALLOSUNE LIMBATA. 
Plate 595, figs. 1, £, la, J (Wet-season Form). 
Teracolus Limbatus , Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 161. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1894, 
p. 522. Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1897, p. 456. Sharpe, Mon. Gen. Teracolus, i. p. 110, 
pi. 34, figs. 1, la to lg (1898). 
Callosune Limbatus , Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 129, pi. 49, fig. 5 (1881). 
Colotis Limbatus , Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 271 (1907). 
Teracolus Etrida , Guy Marshall (part), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 26. 
Wet-season Brood. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside white, with basal portion irrorated with grey scales. 
j Forewing costal line black, orange-red apical patch divided by the veins, the outer 
and inner black borders broad, meeting thickly together hind wards to the lower angle 
of the wing. Ilinclwhig with a broad continuous black marginal band, in some 
examples diffused inwards, in others without the diffusion, and sometimes the band is 
composed of large black spots joined together. Underside much as in the Wet- 
season form of Etrida , 
Female. Upperside very similar to the male. Forewing with a small black 
spot at the end of the cell, and the two usual discal spots, these are sometimes very 
small and sometimes absent. Hindwing with the outer black band much as in the 
male, a small black spot below the costa beyond its middle. Underside white, the 
costal margin, basal area, apical patch, and hind margin greenish-yellow, of various 
shades in different examples; the markings as in Etrida. 
Expanse, $ $ 1 t 5 q- to 1 ^ inches. 
Dry-season Brood. 
Male. Upperside white, the grey irrorations less than in the Wet-season form. 
Forewing with the costal line paler, the orange apical patch a little larger, the black 
bands on each side being narrower, the inner band narrowing upwards, the two bands 
meeting hindwards and fining down to a line on the lower angle of the wing. Hind- 
wing with black marginal spots as in Etrida . Underside white tinted with 
yellowish towards the base of both wings, the apical patch of the forewing showing 
through the wing, a black spot at the end of each cell, largest on the hindwing and 
touched wfith pink, the wing otherwise immaculate. 
Female very similar to the male. Forewing with a black dot at the end of the 
cell, and one, sometimes two, black discal dots. Underside like the underside of a 
Dry-season form female Etrida. 
Expanse, J $ 1-^ to 1 ^ inches. 
Habitat. —Ceylon. 
Distribution. —We have it from Trincomali, it is in the British Museum from 
Puttalam, Hambantottey and Vavoniya Vilankulam. 
