TERACOLUS. 47 



I at first determined Mrs. Lort Phillips's specimens as T. hdaera, and when 1 came to 

 the conclusion that the species was new and called it T. lorfi, I omitted to take out 

 the MSS. referring to T. hctcBra i'rom ray paper : hence the mistake. 



EXPLANATION OF THE FIGURES OF T. lorli. 



Plate 16, fig. 1. <? . Dara-as, Goolis Mts. {Mus. L. Lort Phillips). 

 „ la. Underside. 



,, lb. J . Darra-Surree (Mus. L. Lort Phillijjs). 

 „ Ic. Underside. 



„ Id. $ . Darra-Surree (J/ms, L. Lort Phillips). 

 ,, le. Underside. 



TEEACOLUS KEGINA (Trimen). 



(Plate 17, figs. 1, la-lb.) 



Anthopsyche ione, Wallengr. (nee Godart), K. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. ; Lepid. Rhop. Caftr., 



p. 15 (1857). 

 Anthocaris regina, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. (3) i. p. 520 (18(13). 

 Ocdlosune regina, Kirby, Syn. Cat. Diurn. Lepid. p. 500 (1871); Gerstaecker, in Von Der Decken's 



Reis. iii. Abth. ii. p. 366 (1873); Weatwood in Oates's Matabele Land, App. p. 330, pi. E. 



figs. 9, 10 (1881). 

 Teracolus regina, Trimen, S. Afr. Butterflies, iii. p. Ill, pi. xi. fig. 3 (1889); id. P. Z. S. 1891, 



p. 97 ; Butler, P. Z. S. 1896, p. 836 ; Guy Marshall, P. Z. S. 1897, p. 21 ; Builer, Ann. & Mag. 



Nat. Hist. (6) xx. p. 395 (1897). 

 Callosune anax, Grose Smith, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ((5) iii. p. 125 (1889); id. Rhop. Exot. I. 



Gallomne pi. 1, figs. 5-8 (1889). 

 Teracolus anax, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) vii. p. 47 (1891); id. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 664 ' 



Trimen, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 66 ; Butler, P. Z. S. 1896, p. 126 ; id. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 852. 

 Teracolus eliza, E. M. Sharpe, Ann. <fe Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) v. p. 441 (1890) ; YVaterhouse, Aid Ident. 



Ins. pi. 189, figs. 5, 6 (1890). 



Male. — Primaries with the central area white, the apical portion with a large 

 iridescent purplish patch ; this patch enclosed by a black border, comniencing from 

 about the middle of the costa and extending to the hind margin, the latter and tlie 

 apex being also black ; the black border nearly obsolete at the posterior angle ; the 

 black radiating along the nervules towards the discoidal cell, and so dividing 

 the purple area into spots which vary in size ; a distinct grey shading visible on the 

 black border at the apex. Secondaries entirely white, the nervules black, terminating 

 on the hind marginal border in black spots. A shading of grey at the base of both 

 wings. 



Underside. — Primaries white, the apical area pale yellow, with some small black 

 nervular spots on the hind margin, followed by a post-median apical row of five 



