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Show 1876.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE GENUS TERACOLUS. 135 cepting that the secondaries have a white patch above the subcostal nervure : wings below pale yellowish white, slightly rosy towards the base; primaries with the discocellular spot small, elliptical, black, with white centre; apical border pale reddish-orange, bounded within by six ill-defined yellowish spots, limited by an inner series of seven decreasing spots, the upper five rusty-brown, the lower two black; secondaries with a pale-centred rusty discocellular spot; seven discal spots in an irregular arched series, all rusty; outer border pale reddish orange, diffused internally ; body below creamy-white. Expanse of wings 1 inch 8 lines. $ . Altogether paler ; primaries with the costa and base cinereous ; discocellular spot small, as in the male ; apical border dark brown, enclosing six spots internally and seven externady ; secondaries with six large subquadrate marginal dark brown spots : wings below creamy sulphur-yellow, rather darker towards the base and on the outer margins; otherwise as in the male. Expanse of wings 2 inches. S, Kalka, foot of Himalayas (Boys, B.M.). $ , Kattywar (coll. Moore). 30. TERACOLUS SOLARIS, n. sp. cS • Wings above like dark females of T. fausta, but altogether of a deeper orange-colour, with the costa of primaries ash-coloured, and the discocellular spot much larger ; secondaries with a white patch above subcostal: wings below pale creamy yellow, deeper towards the base, the markings as in the preceding species. Expanse of wings 2 inches 2 lines. cS var. Wings above paler in tint; ash-coloured costa of primaries darker ; markings below rather paler. Expanse of wings 1 inch 1| lines. cS, Scinde? (B.M.) ; 6* var., N . W . India (coll. F. Moore). Wallace labelled this as his ldmais fulvia ; but it is quite distinct. 31. TERACOLUS FULVIA. cS, ldmais fulvia, Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, vol. iv. p. 392. n. 5, pl. 9. fig. 5 (1867). ldmais tripuncta, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 221, pl. 17. fig. 9 (1868). 6* ?, N . W . India. Type, coll. Moore. The female is white instead of orange. 7. Closely allied to the preceding group ; wings pale salmon-colour or white above, with broad black-brown outer borders, intersected by spots of the ground-colour ; wings below coloured much as in Colias. ldmais, Boisd. Type I. calais. 32. TERACOLUS VESTALIS, n. sp. (Plate VII. fig. 10.) eS $ . Size of the preceding group of species : white above, with a broad irregular external black border ; two white spots placed obliquely below the apex of primaries, and a third much larger on second median interspace ; a large black spot at the end of the cell |
