114 TERACOLUS. 



Uiidermle. — Central area of the primaries white, the apical area sandy-buff 

 relieved by a transverse band of dusky brown ; a faint spot ol' rcddisli-brown visible 

 near the posterior angle ; tlic base pale yellow, and the black discoidal spot very dis- 

 tinct. Secondaries entirely warm sandy-buff covered with dustings of dusky brown ; 

 a distinct line of the same colour extending from the base, through the cell to about 

 the centre of the discal area; two dusky-brown spots situated at the end of the 

 costal nervure. 



Expanse 1'4 inches. {Spec. (\v. Grahaiiis/oini, Cape Colon y ; Godman-Salfin Coll.; 

 Mus. Brit. Form of, T. del plane) 



A second form of the T. dclpldne phase which I have figured and which 

 is the type of T. li/ceiis, hardly differs from that of the male above described ; 

 the orange apical patch on the primaries may be somewliat brighter and 

 in some lights a lilac sheen can be observed. The basal area of both wings 

 has the black less strongly pronounced. The underside of the secondaries is much 

 pinker as regards the ground-colour and the dusky-brown streak is not so strongly 

 marked. 



Expanse r.2 inches. {Spec. ex. South Africa ; E. C. Budtuii ; Mus. Brit.) 



The female of this second " dry-season " form has the ground-colour of the 

 primaries pale sulphur-yellow, the orange colour being replaced by five hastate spots 

 of tawny-yellow, the inner line of brown narrower and not broken as in tig. 1l; the 

 dusky grey line along the inner margin also a little more strongly marked. Secon- 

 daries, with the exception of the sulphur-yellow^ ground-colour, the spots and 

 markings are similar to those of the female (fig. 1l). The underside hardly difl'ers 

 from the female above described (fig. Im). 



Expanse 1"2 inches, {Spec. ea\ South Africa; E. C. Bi'dto/i ; Mus. Brit. Form 

 of T. jianiinia [?'. subfumosus\?) 



Habitat. — Tropical Africa generally. East Africa from British Caffraria to 

 Abyssinia. S. W. Africa. W. Africa ; Senegambia to the Niger. 



West Aiiuca. — River Gambia {Crowley Coll. Mus. Brit.). Bathurst {Mus. 

 lioth.%-hi!d). Kumasi, Ashanti {Captain (liffard ; Mus. Bothsehild). Accra {Sir 

 Gilbert Carter ; Mus. Brit.). Gambaga, Gold Coast Hinterland, June-November, 

 1898 {Colonel Northcott ; Captain Gijjard ; Mus. Rothschild). Togoland {Mux. 

 Rothschild). Asaba River, Niger {Dr. W. H. Crosse ; Mus. Brit.). 



North-East Africa. — Atbara Hiver (Of. Trimen, South African Butterflies, III., 

 p. 151, 1889). Bogos Land {Coll. Oberthur) ; Shoa {Oberthur; I.e. p. 154). 

 Somali Land, Shaik Husein, September {Dr. Donaldson Smith). 



Equatouiai, Akrica. — Wadelai, March {Euiin Pasha ,- Mus. Brit.). TCarunga, 

 Kyanika, March ; Podia, April ; Fajao Unyoro, Decembe)- {Dr. Anxoryc ; Mus. 



