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Show 1881.] WESTERN INDIA, BELOOCHISTAN, ETC. 609 As there appears to be some little confusion respecting these white species of Teracolus, I may briefly diagnose them as follows :- T. vestalis expands 20-24 lines; border of secondaries above broad in both sexes; wings below sulphur-yellow, the apex of primaries and entire surface of secondaries in the female occasionally irrorated with grey and washed with mustard-yellow, the secondaries also frequently with an oblique discal series of olive-brown spots. May. T. puellaris expands 17-21 lines; border of secondaries above varying in width'; female often pale yellow above; male below usually of a brighter yellow than T. vestalis, and with narrower black discal spots ; the apex of primaries and entire surface of secondaries in the female below flesh-coloured; the outer border of secondaries darker, and limited by a complete angular discal series of brownish spots. April and May. T. ochreipennis expands 16 to 20£ lines; border of secondaries above rather broad in both sexes; both male and female white above in all specimens which I have seen; the apex of primaries and entire surface of secondaries in Both sexes Below ochraceous, secondaries with rather darker border, limited internally by two or three brownish spots, which sometimes, however, are obsolete. November. 33. TERACOLUS OCHREIPENNIS (No. 2). Teracolus ochreipennis, Butler, P. Z. S. p. 136. n. 34^(1876). Six specimens, in tolerably good condition. Kurrachee, November 1879. 34. TERACOLUS DYNAMENE. Pontia dynamene, Klug, Symb. Phys. pi. vi. figs. 17, 18 (1829). Four specimens. Kurrachee, May 1879. " Very common. May, November, December."-C. S. Of T. protractus Major Swinhoe says :-" January, March, August, November, not common; very common in Hydrabad and on the Huhb river." Of T. Solaris (of which we only possess one specimen, a male) he sayS : - " January, August, December, common." 35. TERACOLUS ETRIDA (No. 1). Anthocharis etrida, Boisduval, Sp. Gen. Lep. i. p. 576 (1836). Three typical males and one typical female. Kurrachee, May and June 1879. . . . Var. Orange apical patch wider in both sexes, its inner black-brown boundary becoming obsolete towards the costal border in the Three males and two females. Kurrachee, May and June 1879. This variety resembles T. punts in the pattern of the apex of primaries, l Always narrow in Kurrachee males. |