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Show 150 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON INDIAN BUTTERFLIES. [Mar. 2, 11. TERACOLUS FARRINUS, 3 • Teracolus farrinus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 159. n. 112, pl. 7. fig. 2. On the railway-embankment near Lahore. Dr. Watt says" that this species is not uncommon ; he, however, only brought home one example, which he presented to the National collection. 12. IXIAS AGNIVERNA. Ixias agniverna, Moore, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xx. p. 50 (1877). Bengal. Dr. Watt took this species in company with I. mariannce. 13. IXIAS DHARMSAL^E, n. sp. (Plate XV. figs. 8, 9.) 3. Bright lemon-yellow: primaries above with the base tinted with greenish grey ; costal margin and apical half (enclosing a broad orange belt, divided by black veins into eight areas) black; lower discocellular bounded internally by a nearly semicircular black spot, which is partially confluent with the inner border of the apical area, the latter reduced by the orange belt to a rather slender stripe : secondaries with a moderately broad, undulated, dark-brown outer border : body greenish, with the prothorax sliglitly reddish in front. Wings below of a less clear yellow than above, irrorated here and there with little brown mottlings; internal area whitish ; a dark-brown spot on the angle of the discocellulars ; veins terminating in black dots: primaries with an indistinct zigzag series of squamose brown spots on the disk from the costa to tbe third median branch; secondaries with a red-brown spot on costal area near apex and three others of different sizes on the inferior subcostal, radial, and third median interspaces. Expanse of wings 2 inches 4 lines. § • Bright sulphur-yellow : wings above with the black areas nearly as in the male, but the belt of primaries sulphur-yellow traversed by four transverse diffused black spots, the third of which is alone separated from the black veins and surrounding black area. Primaries below (excepting the apex, costa, and outer border, which are lemon-yellow, and the internal area, which is whitish) sulphur-yellow ; veins at apex and outer margin orange ; terminal black dots and discocellular spots nearly as in the male ; a discal elbowed series of six spots, the three uppermost of which are ferruginous and the remainder blackish ; a blackish squamose patch at external angle: secondaries more strongly mottled than in the male, with two additional small red-brown discal spots, thus forming a series of six, of which the first, third, and fourth are large and the three others small and decreasing in size from the costal area downwards : body paler than in the male. Expanse of wings 2 inches 3 lines. Dharmsala, N . W . Himalayas, 7000 feet. Mr. Moore has a series of this beautiful species in his collection. |