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of the males of T. puniceus, and this is the principal claim for the separation of that 

 species from T. hefcsra. Mr. Guy Marshall writes : " I cannot distinguish the single 

 female on which Mr. Butler founded his T. foliaceus from the female of T. hetcera, of 

 which I have seen a long series. As usual, the colouring of the female is highly- 

 variable, ranging from dull white, through opalescent or yellowish white to bright 

 yellow ; the black borders are very heavy and radiate somewhat on the nervules in 

 the hind wings ; there is no black bar on the inner margin of the fore wings, but 

 strong basal grey clouding ; the spots in the apical area are black and small, white 

 or yellowish in colour, and usually are more or less suffused with crimson scales 

 At present T. hetcera has been recorded from the Sabaki River and Victoria Nyanza 

 on the south, northward to Wadelai." 



EXPLANATION OF THE FIGURES OF T. hetcera. 



TERACOLUS LORTI, E. M. Sharpe. 



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



Teracolus lorii, E. M. Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1896, p. 527 ; Guy Marshall, P. Z. S. 1897, p. 18 ; Butler, 



Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xx., p. 395 (1897). 

 Teracolus hetcera (nee Gerst), E. M. Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1896, p. 527. 

 Teracolus Imloiidai, E. M. Sharpe, MSS. Butler, P. Z. S. 1897, p. G93 (nom. nudum). 



Male. — Similar to T. hetcera, but smaller, and with the apical patch very much 

 larger, and of a magenta tint rather than crimson ; costa and basal area of 

 primaries dusted with grey; the hind marginal border brownish-black, the veins 

 strongly enforced by black lines. The magenta patch near the apex commences just 

 above the discoidal cell and extends as far as the second median nervule. Secondaries 

 rather more grey at the base, the veins black, but fading in intensity towards the 

 hind margin and not showing the black terminal spots at the end of the nervules as 

 in T. hetcera. 



Underside. — Central area of the primaries white with the apical portion saudy- 



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