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Show 152 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. [Apr. 3, " Not common ; a few taken occasionally from November to March."-C. S. 25. TERACOLUS INTERMISSUS, sp. n. (Plate XXIV. fig. 4.) 8 • Resembles on both surfaces the female of T. ochreipennis, excepting that the black border of the secondaries does not extend beyond the first median branch, is interrupted by three or four unequal white spots, and upon the margin is more distinctly undulated. Expanse of wings 41 m m. Kurrachee, December 1881. This, whether it be a species or a variety, is a highly interesting form, since it serves partly to bridge over the gap between T. vestalis and T. amelia by reproducing a character common to T. cypraa and allies. 26. TERACOLUS OCHREIPENNIS. Teracolus ochreipennis, Butler, P. Z. S. 18/6, p. 136, n. 34. Kurrachee. 8 2 •> December 1881. " Quite common in Kurrachee in November and December." " Apex of primaries and entire surface of secondaries below in both sexes very dark flesh-colour in all freshly emerged specimens, which fades to ochraceous in life but not after death. If you catch a perfectly fresh specimen and put it away, the dark flesh-colour keeps fairly well, even after death ; if you expose the under surface to the light, the flesh-colour soon fades into a kind of ochraceous."-C. S. 27. TERACOLUS PUELLARIS. Teracolus puellaris, Butler, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 136, n. 33. 8. Kurrachee, June 1880; Larkana, July. The specimens now sent are all males; of two marked as females, one distinctly shows the divided anal claspers, and the other bas the sexual organ exserted ; the females of this species are like pale under-coloured females of T. ochreipennis, and not yellow below as in the males. " Very common at Kurrachee from April to August, and an odd one to be taken occasionally in every month of the year."-C. S. The last part of this note must be attributed to the great similarity of the species (especially in the male sex) of this group ; worn examples of one species probably continue to turn up until the appearance of tbe other. Small examples of the following species were associated with the specimens of T. puellaris. The males, when of nearly equal size, are extremely difficult to distinguish from one another ; and the larger tbe series of specimens the more this difficulty increases ; nevertheless the females are so distinct in coloration that I am unwilling without proof to regard the two forms as of one species. 28. TERACOLUS VESTALIS. Teracolus vestalis, Butler, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 135, n. 32, pi. vii. fig. 10. 8 2- Kurrachee, June 1880. |
