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met witli it as far northward as tlie mouth of the Tugela River, and (judging from 

 photographs and MS. sent to me) the late Mr. E. C. Buxton having taken it in 

 Swazi Land." 



EXPLANATION OF THE FIGURES OF T. ione. 



Plate 23, fig. 1 . S is-.ittil {Mus. L'othschild). 



„ la. Underside of fig. 1. 



„ 11). $ nulvern, t^atal {O H. Barker .■ Trimen foil.). 



„ Ic Underside of fig. lb. 



„ Id. ? Mulvern, 'Sated {G. H. Barker ; Trimen Coll.). 



„ le. (J Ma\vern,'Na.ta.l{C. II. Barker; Trhnen Coll.). 



„ If. $ Durban {Mus. Bothschild). 



„ If.'. (? M!i\veTn,Nata\{C. /I. Barker; Trimen Coll.). 



„ Ih. Under.side of fig. Ig. 



,, li. 9 Malvern, Natal (C. //. 5rtc^er; Tri men Coll.). 



,, Ij. Underside of fig. li. 



,. Ik. 9 'M&\vem,'S&ta\{C. II. Barker ; Trimen Coll.). 



TERACOLUS BACCHUS, Butler. 



(Plate 24, Figs. 1, la-lh.) 



Teracolus hacchus, Butler, P. Z. S. ISSS, p. 78 ; Grose Smith and Kirby, Rhop. Exot. Callosune I, 

 pi. Figs. 1-4 (1889); Butler, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (C) vii. p. 47 (1891); id. op. cit. (6) 

 XX. p. 3flH (1897); Aurivilliu.s, Rhop. .^thiopica, p. 429 (1898). 



Callosune mroijoana, Vuillot, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1891, pp. ci. 



Teracolus phleyi/as (part), Guy Marshall, P. Z. S. 1897, p. 20. 



Distinguished from all the otlier purple-tipped species of the genus Teracoli/x by 

 having the black nervules on the upper surface of both wings, as well as those of 

 the underside, very strongly marked. This distinctive cliaracter is even more pro- 

 nounced in the females. 



Male. — Primaries similar to those of T. imperator, but with tha apex entirely 

 grey, and the inner black border of the purple patch much narrower. Secondaries 

 scarcely differing from those of 2\ imperator. 



Underside. — Primaries and secondaries both entirely white, the black nervules 

 strongly marked on both wings, but having the black transverse band on the 

 secondaries more broken up than in the allied species. 



E.Kpanse 'I'X inches, {^pcc ex Gulu-Gidu ; Jackson Coll.). 



Female. — Similar to that of T. imperator, but with the orange apical patch on 

 the primaries narrower and entirely separated by the black nervules, thus giving to thr 



