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Show 1876.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE GENUS TERACOLUS. 159 sulphur-tinted coloration, the regular and much paler basal grey suffusion, which is almost invisible on the secondaries, the much brighter apical carmine patch, the absence of the spot near external angle of primaries, the minute character of the discal spots of secondaries, and the better-defined and narrower outer border; primaries below with the apical area redder, the basal area yellower, and without a terminal grey streak crossing the cell; the black spots smaller : secondaries below distinctly ochraceous, with the discal spots reddish, irrorated with black and grey. Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. Ceylon (Stevens). Type, B.M. 10. Wings white, the primaries with the apex dark brown, with central orange patch, more or less separated into distinct spots in the female ; underside with a more or less defined series of discal spots in secondaries. 111. TERACOLUS PERNOTATUS, n. sp. (Plate VII. fig. 1.) 3 • White above, with the base pale grey : primaries with a black spot at end of cell; apical area orange, bordered with black-brown, the inner border tapering towards costa ; the orange area divided into six parts by the nervures and narrowing to a point behind : secondaries with a black spot on costa and six on outer margin. Below white, the base sulphur-yellow ; the cells terminated by black dots ; primaries with the apical area greyish, with the orange patch of the upperside dimly visible and bounded externally by four or five almost united red-brown spots in an oblique series: secondaries with a discal arched series of small brown spots; very minute black spots terminating the nervures on outer margin. Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 2 • White, sometimes tinted with sulphur-yellow; the base pale grey: primaries with a black spot at end of cell; apical area black, with a central nearly straight series of five more or less defined orange spots, only separated by the nervures ; three black spots in an oblique series below the median branches, the central one small, the lowest one bifid: secondaries with a curved series of discal spots, black at costa, but gradually fading away towards inner margin ; a marginal series of six large spots. Wings below white, the basal area, apical area of primaries, and outer margin of secondaries bright sulphur-yellow; a black spot at the end of the cells, bordered with orange on the secondaries ; primaries with an angulated discal series of seven blackish spots: secondaries with a curved discal series of seven sap-green spots ; the abdominal and subcostal areas also sometimes irrorated with sap-green. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 3 2, Punjab (coll. F. Moore) ; $ , Punjab (B.M.). This species is distinguished by the broad apical patch of the male; the pale grey basal third of the wings, the greyish apical patch below, and the curved discal series of secondaries below. 112. TERACOLUS FARRINUS, n. sp. (Plate VII. fig. 2.) 3. Distinguished from the preceding by the wider apical area |