Whilst birdwatching the bottom valley of
the Raydah Escarpment in the Asir Mountains of southwest Saudi Arabia, I came
across and photographed a Scarlet Tip Colotis danae. The white, base of wings
generally speckled to a varying extent, with black scales. This speckling can
be absent in many specimens. Forewing: with or without a minute black spot. The
apex is broadly carmine, edged internally and externally with black, this black
border varies in width. The hindwing is 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.
