MONOGEAPH 



GENUS TEEACOLUS. 



TEEACOLUS CALAIS (Cramer) 



(Plate 1, figs. 1, la-lf). 



Papilio Calais, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. liii. figs. C. D. (1779). 



Pontia (hjnamene, Klug, Symb. Phys. pi. vi. figs. 17, 18 (1829). 



Idmiais Calais, Boisd. Sp. Gen. i. p. 587, No. 4 (18o6); Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Austr. p. 61, No. -iO 



(1862). 

 Idmais dijnamene, Boisd. Sp. Gen. i. p. 588, No. 5 (1836); Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lepid. p. 499 (1871). 

 Teraeolus dynamene, Butler, P. Z. S, 1876, p. 138. 



Teracolus calais, Butler, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 139 ; Guy Marshall, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 9. 

 Teraeolus carnifer, Butler, t.c. p. 138, p. vii. figs. 8, 9. 

 Teracohi^ calais, var. dynamene, Butler, P. Z. S. 1896, p. 2-15. 

 Teracolus amatus, pt. Butler, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xx. p. 388 (1897). 



Male. — General colour salmon-buff or light orange, with black markings ; the 

 greater part of the primaries salmon-bulf, their extreme base and costal margin 

 ashy blackish, suffused with buff, extending as far as the end of the discoidal cell, 

 where there is a very conspicuous black spot. A second similar spot, but rather 

 smaller, is situated between the sub-mediau nervure and the first median nervule, 

 towards the anal angle. 



The apical portion of the primaries is blackish for about one-third of the wing, 

 narrowing towards the inner margin ; this apical area is mottled with two rows of 

 sahnon-buff spots, the first row consisting of four ovate spots, the sub-costal spot 

 being smaller than the rest ; these are succeeded by a sub-terminal row of minute 

 longitudinal spots near the end of each nervule. The secondaries are of the same 

 colour as the primaries, and are bordered with black, which is very distinct along 

 the costa and broadens out round the hind margin : this black border is broken bv a 

 sub-terminal row of five salmon-buff spots between the nervules, the inner aspect of 

 the black border having the appearance of being broken up into a narrow line of 

 small black dots. The basal area of the secondaries is ashy blackish, suffused with 

 salmon-buff, and is accompanied by a whitish inner margin. In perfect specimens 

 both wings have a narrow fringe of salmon-buff. E.xpanse I'G inch. 



Underside. — Of a sulphur-yellow colour inclining to light green, with an orange 



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