42 TERACOLUS. 



Judging from the series which I have examined in the British Museum, and in 

 the collections of the Hon. Walter Rothschild and Mr. F. J. Jackson, the range of 

 the species appears to be from Usagara to AVadelai. It seems to be generally 

 distributed in British East Africa, the specimens procured in the month of November 

 being of the " dry-season " form, and those obtained from December to April belong- 

 ing to the " wet-season " form. 



EXPLANATION OF THE FIGURES OF T. punicem. 



Coast to Teita {F. J. J. ; Jcwkson Coll.). 

 Coast to Teita {F. J. J.; Jackson Coll.). 

 . Underside. 

 Coast to Teita (F. .T. .1 . ; Jackson Coll.). 

 Coast to Teita (/'. J. J. ; Jackson CoU,). 

 Underside of fig. Id. 

 Kikuyu {F. J. J. ; Jackson Coll.). 

 Second Kedong {Dr. Ansorge ; Rothschild Coll.). 



TERACOLUS HET^RA, Gerst. 



(Plate 15, figs. 1, la-le.) 



CaUosu'ite hetcera, Gerstaecker, Arch. f. Naturg. 1871, p. 357 {$); id. in Von der Decken's Reis. 



Ost-Alr. iii. Abth. 2, p. 365, pi. xv. fig. i (1873); Kirby, Syn. Cat. Diurn. Lepid. Suppl. 



p. 804 (1877). 

 Teracolus foliaeeus, Butler, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 573, pi. xxxvi. tig. 7 ( $ ). 

 Teracobts hettera, Trinien, S. Afr. Butt. iii. p. 84 (1889); E. M. Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1894, ]>. 348; 



Guy Marshall, P. Z. S. 1897, p. 17; Butler, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xx. p. 394 (1897); 



id. P. Z. S. 1898, p. 408. 



Male.— Very similar to the " wet-season " form of T. punicem, but differing in 

 having six ovate apical spots of crimson-lake on the primaries ; the veins on the 

 secondaries terminating in very distinct black spots, and with the dark transverse 

 baud on the underside distinctly indicated ; the basal area of both wings only slightly 

 shaded with grey. 



Underside. — Primaries creamy- white, a post-median row of brownish-black spots 

 crossing the wing, the spots on the apical area being larger and more pronounced, 

 the sub-median nervure and the first and second median nervules ending in slightly 

 indicated blackish spots on the hind-margin. Secondaries pale yellow, the dark trans- 

 verse band being very much more pronounced than in T. punicem, this band complete 

 to as far as the second median nervule ; a nearly obsolete spot visible between the 

 latter and the first median nervule, with a larger spot situated just above the sub- 

 median nervure. Expanse 2 "8 inches. {Spec. ex. Taru ; C. S. Betton ; Mas. Bril.) 



