148 TERACOLUS. 



7'. p/ilci/clo/iia. T. cuwptiix, froiii Kilimanjaro, has the transverse bar narrow and 

 sometimes very faint, the spot in apical patch ill-defined, and the marginal spots in 

 hind wing separate but distinct. 1\ coiiir/er, from the West Coast (Accra), is very 

 similar, hut has the transverse bar a little stronger and the nervular spots in hind 

 wing larger and triangular in shape. T. (jlycera is founded on a single male of 

 T. miiiaiis (labelled Africa ?), which, while retaining the inner-marginal bar, has lost 

 the black spot in patch ; the border in hind wings is broad and somewhat diffuse 

 inwardly. 7'. hifmciata I cannot distinguish from T. minan^, and, as, I have noted 

 above, the male of Col. Swinhoe's T. xanfhiis and the female of T. udi/sseiis are clearly 

 attributable to this form. T. inferriiptus, from Angola and S. W. Africa, much 

 resembles T. couiptim, but has the spot in apical patch better defined and the 

 nervular spots in the hind wing are united into a broad border. T. hicuUiis, from 

 Angola and Victoria Nyanza, are only lightl}' marked specimens of T. pJiIcf/efonia, and 

 T. emiiii is founded on a single male from Central Africa, in which the black borders 

 are a little deeper than in typical T. phlet/efoina." 



Dr. Trimen makes the following remarks under T. ])liJe(/efoina. (Cf. Trimen, 

 Soutli African Butterfiies, III., p. 153). "This is one of the most striking of the 

 smaller species of Terncolu-s, the relatively large size of the orange patch and the 

 depth and extent of the black markings rendering it very conspicuous. I found it very 

 seldom during my stay in Natal, but abundantly in the scrub bush at Uitenhage, 

 Cape Colony. 



" It is an active insect, but not swift, and flies close to the ground, appearing in 

 the height of summer (January to March). Near Grahamstown I also met with the 

 species, and on February 12, 1870, captured the united sexes. In this pair neither 

 sex had the black markings at their highest development, and the well-marked 

 apical orange of the female partly penetrated the upper part of its broad inner 

 blackish border. In another pair, taken in copula by Colonel Bowker near the 

 Upper Tugela on April 2, 1880, the male has heavy dark markings, but the female 

 is scarcely more heavily marked than the darkest females of T. antitjoue, and has 

 the apical orange superiorly almost as in the male, the usual dark inner border 

 being reduced to a series of dusky nervular marks well within the orange. A 

 very fine female, sent from Weenen Country in Natal by Mr. J. M. Hutchinson, 

 considerably surpasses that here noticed as regards the width of the apical orange 

 and the faiutness of the traces of tlie inner dark border of the orange, but presents, 

 on the contrary, all tlie great black markings in their highest development on both 



