36 TERACOLUS. 



Marshall remarks : " A most interesting and distinct little species, allied to T. eiinomus, 

 Hopff., but readily distinguished by its much smaller size, its greenish-white ground- 

 colour, and by the very diflercnt position of the three small crimson spots near the 

 apex. I have seen the unique type, a male, which is in the collection of Mr. F. J. 

 Jackson, who captured it on Mount Elgon, to the north of Victoria Nyanza." 



EXPLANATION OP THE FIGURES OF T. elgonensis. 



Plate 12, fig. 2. J . Mount Elgon {F. J. Jachson ; ti/pc). 

 „ 2a. Underside of fig. 2. 



TERACOLUS EUNOMUS, Hopffer. 



(Plate 13, figs. 1, la.) 



Picris eunoma, HopfTer, Ber. Verh. Akad. Berlin, 18.55, p. OiO; id. in Peters, Reise Mossamlj. Zool 



V. p. 3:):;, taf. x.xiii. tigs. 1, 2 (18G2). 

 Teracolus eimoma, Kirby, Syn. Cat. Diurn. Lepid. Siippl. p. 802 (1877) ; Trimen, S. Mr. Butt. iii. 



p. lU (18S0); Guy Marshal], P. Z. S. 1897, p. l.j; Butler, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (0) x.\-. 



p. 393 (1897). 



Apparently nearly allied to T. elgonensis, but larger and whiter, with none of the 

 greenish tint of that species, the crimson-lake spots being distinctly larger in size. 

 The underside of the secondaries is entirely yellow, not greenish as in T. elgonensis. 



Habitat.— Inhambane, Mozambique {Dr. W. Peters). 



1 am unable to speak from personal examination of the distinctness of this 

 species, which was discovered by Dr. W. Peters during his celebrated expedition to 

 Mozambique. The type still remains unique in the Berlin Museum. The dift'er- 

 ences between T. ennomus and T. ehromiferus are very slight, but they are apparently 

 constant. Mr. Guy Marshall has united T. ehromiferus and T. eunonius together, 

 and Dr. Trimen considers that they must be identical, for he gives a description of 

 T. etinomus from Hopfl'er's figure, and refers a sj^ecimen from Zanzibar in the Hewitson 

 collection in the British Museum, to the latter species. Dr. Butler, however, keeps 

 the two distinct, and I am inclined to agree with him, as, to judge by Hopffer's 

 figures, T. eunoiims must be smaller than T. ehromiferus, and have the crimson-lake 

 markings on the primaries much more restricted. The only specimen that I have 

 seen from Mozambique is one obtained there by Dr. Ansorge, and this was certainly 

 T. chromiferux. It is therefore possible that the latter may only be a seasonal form 

 of T. eunomus. 



EXPLANATION OF THE FIGURES OF T.mmmm. 



Plate 13, fig. 1. S • Inhambane, 



,, la. Underside of fig. 1. 



(Copied from Hopffer's plate [^.c.]) 



