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Show 1886.] LEPIDOPTERA F R O M WESTERN INDIA. 373 69. TERACOLUS FAUSTINUS. Idmais faustina, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. ii. p. 190 andd(^4?mpPbvf11PTe' 1,7?VU,d 21st Nove^ber, 13th December; and Chittar Pahar, Lumbahdun, 2000 feet, 28th November, 1885. fh,-!> M 6 n S Car>ch Species before one> h is e a sy to distinguish his from the Turco-Persian T.fausta ; it differs in its superio? size and more heavily marked primaries on the upperside (which, as 1 elder says, more nearly resembles the female of T.fausta than the male) the much more dusky bases to the wings, blackish body, greyish costa to pnmanes and interno-basal area to secondaries, altogether duller and darker coloration below, the secondaries being flesh-tinted on basal two fifths and irrorated with grey atom! throughout, the conspicuous clay-coloured spots across the disk, and the white instead ot pale sulphur colour of the ventral surface of the abdomen. 70. TERACOLUS FARRINUS. fi Tlml°^arrims' Butler, P-Z-S. 1876, p. 159. n. 112, pi. 7. nJoHween A Tret,and Barracoo, Murree and Rawal Pindee road, 9th October; Attock Bridge, Sth November; Campbellpore, 14th November, 1885. r This was identified for Major Yerbury as " T. etrida ? " 71. TERACOLUS BIMBURA. Teracolus bimbura, Butler, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 161. n. 117, Dl 7 figs. 3, 4. ' H ' 2, Campbellpore, 27thOctober; near Attock Bridge, Khairabad side, Sth November ; d, Chittar Pahar, Lumbahdun, 2000 feet 28th November, 1885. This and the following are confounded together and labelled doubtfully as Teracolus etrida. Major Yerbury says of them : " C o m m o n in June, July, October, and November. There seem to be Butterflies corresponding to the following species under this number, viz. -,-purus, etrida, pernotatus, and bimbura ; but I should be doubtful whether, here at any rate, they do not all belong to T. etrida. I have taken these small orange-tips at Hassan Abdal; (single specimen), on the road between Murree and Rawal Pindee' near Barracoo (single specimen), near Attock Bridge, Khairabad side (a few), in the Chittar Pahar between Choi and Lumbahdun (very common), neighbourhood of Campbellpore (common)." Taking specimens in so many localities, it is not surprising that three species should be obtained ; as to their being all one, that is a question only to be decided by most careful breeding; they differ far more than our three British White Butterflies Ganoris brassica rapce, and napi, yet there is not the slightest doubt of the distinctness of the latter. |
