postdiscal, macular dark reddish-brown band very broad. Hindwing: pale ochraceous yellow, sparsely powdered with black scales; transverse postdiscal macular band reddish brown and broad as in the forewing. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in female form 2 of C. fausta. Western and southern India: Bombay, Poona, the Nilgiris up to , the Anaimalai Hills; eastern India: Orissa in Bengal, Ganjam; Ceylon. Subspecies Colotis fausta fausta (Turkmenistan, Israel, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Arabia, Chad and United Arab Emirates) Colotis fausta faustina (C. & R. Felder, [1865]) (central India) Colotis fausta fulvia (Wallace, 1867) (south India, Sri Lanka) Colotis fausta mijurteina Carpenter, 1951 (northern Somalia) Colotis fausta vi (Swinhoe, 1884) (Arabia) See also List of butterflies of India (Pieridae) References Fauna of Pakistan fausta Butterflies of Asia Butterflies described in 1804