TERACOLUS. 



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seem to be a dry-season form, but the colouring of the under surface is that of the 

 wet-season. I should look upon it as an intermediate form, probably occurring just 

 before the rains. T. cHre?/s is the drji'-season form occurring with typical T. cvarne 

 but smaller, much more lightly marked above, and very rosy below." 



EXPLANATION OF THE FIGURES OF T. evarne. 



Plate 29, fig. 1. i Tsavo River, Jainuiry 1892 {Jackson Coll.). 

 la. Underside of fig. 1. 



lb. ? Atbara River (Mus. Brit.). 

 Ic. Underside of fig. lb. 



Id. 9 Atbara River (Mus Brit.). 

 le. Underside of fig. Id. 



If. 9 Podia, Unyoro, April 9, 1897 {Dr. ,T. IC. Ansorge. ; Mus. Rothschild). 

 Ig. Underside of fig. If. 



Ih. (? Atbara River {Mus. Brit. ; T. xwniheumnie form), 



li. (? Turquel, January 1890 {Jackson Coll.). 

 Ij. Underside of fig. li. 



Ik. 9 Melindi, October 1891 {Mus. Rothschild). 

 11. Underside of fig. Ik. 



TERACOLUS PHILLIPSII, Butler. 



(Plate 30, Figs. 1, la,-lg). 



Teracolus phillipsii, Butler, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 772, pi. xlvii. fig. 11 ; id. P. Z. S. 189(p, pp. 240, 

 253; E. M. Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 536, no. 24 ; id. P. Z. S. 1890, p. 528, no. 59 ; Butler, 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (0) xx. p. 454 (1897) ; Dixey, P. Z. S 1900, p. 15. 



Teracolus evarne (part) Guy Marshall, P. Z. S. 1897, p. 26 ; Aurivillius, Rhop. yEthiopica, p. 442 

 (1898). 



Very similar to T. evarne, but at once distinguished by its smaller size, the black 

 on the hind-margin and apex being extremely narrow, and the median line of sulphur- 

 yellow almost obsolete. 



Male. — Central area of the primaries white ; the apical half bright orange, edged 

 on the inner side by a faint line of sulphur-yellow. Costa, apex, and hind-margiL 

 narrowly edged with black to as far as the first median nervule. Secondaries entirelr 

 white without any spots or markings. 



Underside. — Primaries white, the apical area tinged with yellow ; throe dusky 



