12C TERACOLUS. 



Cidlosune stijyia, i.d. t.c, p. 50;! (1S71). 



Teracolus xanlhus, 9 . Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 4ii>, pi. xxxix. tig. 11. 

 Teracolua odysseus, 6. Bwinhoe, t.c. p. 441, pi. xl. fig. 3. 

 Teracolus duUla, Guy Maisliall, P. Z. S. 1897, p. 34. 



Teracolus atijyia, Butler, Ann. ;iud Mag. Nat. Hist. (0) xx. p. 451) (181)7). 



Teracohis daira, Butler, P. Z. S. 181)0, p. 247; Guy Marshall, P. Z. S. 1897, p. 34; Butler, Ami. 

 and Mag. Nat. Hi.st (C) xx. p. 451) (181)7); Aurivillius, t.c, p. 435 (1898). 

 Teracolus liayore, Butlor, P. Z. S. 1899, p. 812. 



Distinguished from T. iiifumatiis by the ground-colour having a more creamy 

 appearance, the orange apical band narrower, and the usual black discoidal spot 

 entirely absent, this being the case in both sexes. The females have the ground- 

 colour more or less sulphur-yellow, but with all the markings as in the males, Avhile 

 the orange apical spots are always obsolete. 



Male. — Central area of the primaries creamy-wliite ; the apical area brownish- 

 black, relieved by a narrow row of five orange-red spots, much pointed on both sides ; 

 the dark hind-marginal border terminating above tlie first median nervule ; the 

 costal margin grey, with a brownish-black line along the inner margin, the basal 

 half being thickly sprinkled with grey. Secondaries entirely creamy-white ; the 

 brownish-black hiud-marginal border considerably relieved with white near the anal 

 angle ; above the marginal border, extending over the first, second and third median 

 nervules, is a brownish-grey shading ; the costal margin brownish-black, with the 

 extreme base grey. 



Underside. — The discal area of the primaries white, extending to the posterior 

 angle ; the base and discoidal cell pale yellow, the orange apical patch surrounded 

 by a light green shade which extends along the costa to the base, this colour 

 sprinkled all over with a dusting of grey ; the dark line on the inner margin well 

 pronounced. Secondaries creamy-white, with a broad greyish-green hind-marginal 

 border which graduates towards the apex ; a deep orange streak on the costal 

 margin ; a small spot of the same colour visible at the end of the cell, and relieved 

 by a minute black dot. 



Exjjanse 1*4 inches. (Spec, ex Zeila, Soiiiali Land; Jii/ie 4, 1895; Ccqjl. Nurse; 

 Mas. Brit.; sub noin, T. daira.) 



Female. — Primaries pale yellow, the apical area brownish-black to as far as the 

 first median nervule ; a very pronounced and broad brownish line along the inner 

 margin, thickly sprinkled with grey, this line united to tlie apical patch by a thin 

 dusky line. Secondaries pale 3'ellow, the base and costal margin brown, dusted with 

 grey ; the upper half of the hind-marginal border brownish-black, the lower half, 

 towards the inner nuirgin, divided and sprinkled with grey ; the nervules terminating 

 in brown. 



