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Show 1876.] MR. A. G. BUTLER O N THE GENUS TERACOLUS. 137 36. TERACOLUS ZOE. Anthocharis zoe, Grandidier, Rev. Zool. p. 272 (1867). Callosune zoe, Kirby, Syn. Cat. p. 504. n. 51 (1871). Madagascar. This species seems to me to be closely allied to the preceding ; Kirby, however, refers it to Callosune, whilst he places T. phisadia in the genus ldmais. I am pleased to find a typical ldmais described as an Anthocharis by a man who, inasmuch as he worked but little at the Lepidoptera, was obliged, when he did so, to examine into their structure, because it is a confirmation of m y own conviction that ldmais does not differ structurally from the group Callosune, hitherto regarded as a distinct genus by many Lepidopterists. 37. TERACOLUS PROTRACTUS, n. sp. 3 2 • Wings above rosy salmon-colour, the base, costa of primaries, abdominal area of secondaries, and five to seven decreasing spots on the outer border of primaries ashen-grey; a broad black-brown outer border, paler, and occupying nearly half the wing in the secondaries of the female : wings below sordid pale buff ; primaries with the base of costa and cell sulphur-yellow ; outer border greyish, owing to the semitransparency of the wing; a black spot at end of cell, and three below median branches, the lowest one bifid; secondaries with the external area greyish, as in the primaries. Expanse of wings, 3 1 inch 8 to 9 lines, § 1 inch 7 to 9 lines. 3, Punjab (coll. B . M . ) ; 2> Punjab (coll. F. Moore). 38. TERACOLUS MODESTUS, n. sp. 3. Very like T. amata, pale pinky salmon-colour, grey at base; the outer border broadly black-brown, upon primaries very feebly sinuated internally between the median branches, barely enclosing a spot of the ground-colour on interno-median interspace, and marked by an oblique slightly inarched series of three subapical points of the same colour, upon secondaries bordered internally by four minute points of the ground-colour, limited by black dots and surrounded with grey; costal area black-brown, broader in the male than the female, and on the primaries dusted in front with grey : wings of the male below yellow as in T. amata, with similar markings, but the spots at end of cells very minute and ill-defined : the female, which is paler above than the male, is slightly tinted with grey below ; two or three extremely ill-defined ochreous spots beyond the cell of primaries and bounding the usual pale yellow spots of the disk ; fringe feebly pink; secondaries with a discal series of five ochreous spots, and a pale-centred ochraceous discocellular spot. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines, $ I inch 5 lines. Ceylon (Templeton). 3 2 > type, B.M. A white variety of the female occurs, not differing on the under surface. |