Colotis - Colotis Danae, Colotis Fausta, Colotis Eucharis, Colotis Etrida, Colotis Amata, Colotis Phisadia, Colotis Vestalis (Paperback)

Chapters: Colotis Danae, Colotis Fausta, Colotis Eucharis, Colotis Etrida, Colotis Amata, Colotis Phisadia, Colotis Vestalis, Round Winged Orange Tip, Colotis Evagore, Colotis Ione, Colotis Auxo, Colotis Aurigineus. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 44. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Crimson-Tip or Scarlet Tip (Colotis danae) is a small butterfly of the Family Pieridae, that is, the Yellows and Whites, which is found in Asia and Africa. Coloration very variable, especially in the female. Upperside: white, base of wings generally irrorated, but to a varying extent, with black scales. This irroration in many specimens is entirely wanting. Fore wing: with or without a minute black spot on the discocellulars; apex broadly carmine, edged internally and externally with black, this black border varies in width, but both inner and outer borders meet on the costa and on the termen, on the latter they unite and sometimes extend as a black line to the tornus. Hind wing: uniform, except for a series of black terminal spots, which in some specimens are comparatively large and connected together by an anticiliary slender black line, in others minute, more or less obsolescent, unconnected dots. Male in Hyderabad, India.Underside: white. Fore wing: base of cell washed with sulphur-yellow; spot on discocellulars as on the upperside; apical carmine area of the upperside represented by an ochraceous-pink patch, not margined with black, but similar in shape and position; in some specimens this is more or less suffused with greyish scales; in all, it is crossed near its inner edge by an obliquely-placed series of four or five spots that vary in colour from pale ferruginous to black. In some specimens there are two terminal diffuse black spots, one each at the ends of veins 2 and 3. Hind wing: the...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=496592