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Show 138 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE GENUS TERACOLUS. [JAN. 18, 39. TERACOLUS AMATA. Papilio amata, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 476. n. 143 (1775). ldmais amata, Butler, Fabr. Cat. p. 217. n. 1 (1869). Papilio calais (part), Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pl. 351, A - D (1782), bad figures. 3 2 > Kurnool; 3 2> Balasore ; 3, Bombay ; 2 > Madras ; 3, Deccan ; $, Coromandel. Coils. F. Moore and B.M. The last two of the examples quoted above are in the Museum collection : the species is the size of T. calais (the female sometimes larger) ; it is much like T. dynamene ; but the outline of the marginal border is much less irregular, and the colouring of the underside clear, the female only showing more or less strongly defined transverse discal spots. A white female from Kurnool is in Mr, Moore's collection ; it has the markings of the underside better defined than usual in the typical female. 40. TERACOLUS CYPRAA. Papilio cypraa, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 203. n. 634 (1793). 3 2 y Bombay (8 examples). Coll. F. Moore. This species is considerably larger than T. calais, the figure of which Fabricius quotes for it; the male measures 1 inch 8 lines to 2 inches 1 line, and the female J inch 11 lines to 2 inches 2 lines. It is easily distinguished from T. calais on the underside by the absence of the orange spot on disk of primaries, and by its deeper coloration ; from the preceding species T. amata it is easily distinguished by its more elongated primaries, deeper coloration below, and the more irregular outer border of the primaries, the enclosed spot on interno-median interspace being much broader. There is a white female in the collection of the British Museum ; it is smaller than typical females, and the ground-colour on the under surface is paler. 41. TERACOLUS DYNAMENE. Pontia dynamene, Klug, Symb. Phys. pl. 6 tigs. 15, 16 (1829). ldmais dynamene, Boisduval, Sp. Gen. Lep. i. p. 588. n. 5 (1836). 3, N. India (B.M.); 3 §, Scinde and Agra; <$, Kattywur; 2 , Punjab (coll. F. Moore). This species is frequently confounded with T. amata in collections. It is, however characterized by a much less rounded outer margin to the primaries, paler and more greyish coloration, the abdominal half of secondaries distinctly grey in the male, the inner edge of the external border of primaries more irregular even than in T. cypraa, the greener coloration of the under surface, the paler female, which has a distinct orange blotch (cut by the median nervure and its first two branches) on the under surface of the primaries, as in T. calais, and in the greater prominence of the pale marginal internervular liturse on the upper surface. 42. TERACOLUS CARNIFER, n.sp. (Plate VII. figs. 8, 9.) 3- Allied to the preceding species, but smaller, and of a clearer |