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Floricola, distinguished by its Lroader, inwardly angulated apical border of 

 fore-wing, and its very strongly marked under side.^ 



I have examined the $ Mauritian and South-African examples on which 

 ]\rr. Butler founded his T. Ceres, as well as two $ s, ticketed " South Africa" 

 and " Katal," Avhich in the British Museum collection are associated with the 

 two $ s. The interruption of the border of the fore-wing above the posterior 

 angle, which Mr. Butler specially notes as a distinguishing character, is in 

 neither $ complete. 



The Madagascar specimens of Floricola in the South-African IMuseum are 

 more like the South-African tlian the Mauritian examples, especially the ? s, 

 one of which is of an unusual paleness, inclining to whitish. 



This appears to be a rare form in South Africa. I took two $ s near 

 D'Urban, Natal, in February and April 1867, and the late Colonel Tower 

 brought one $ from St. Lucia Bay later in the same year. Colonel Bowker 

 has sent only two examples (both from D'Urban), taken respectively in 1878 

 and 1S79. My captures were made in the Botanic Garden^ where several 

 species of Terias frequented the flowers of Vinca rosea. 



In Mauritius I found Floricola numerous, and generally distributed about 

 grassy waste spaces, in company with its congener PtdcheUa. 



Localities o£ Terias floricola. 



I. South Africa. 



E. Xatal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. 



F. Zululand. — St. Lucia Bay {Colonel H. Tower). 



IL Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical 



bb. Eastern Islands. — Madagascar : Murundava (Greve). Mauritius. 

 " Bourbon." — Boisduval. 



243, (4.) Terias iEthiopica, sjj. nov. 



(J Eitrema Senegalensis, Geyer [^ec Boisd.], Forts. Hiibn., Zutr. Exot. 

 Schmett., p. 41, ff. 969-970 (1837). 



Exp. al., I in. 7-8^ lin. 



Closely allied to T. floricola, Boisd. Chrome-yclloiv ground-colour 

 bright but rather paler ; black border in fore-iving only, hut broader supe- 

 riorly ; nervular hind-marginal spots in hind-iving larger. -Fore-wing : 

 black border shaped much as in Floricola, but considerably broader 

 apically, and presenting a marked angulated prominence inwardly on 

 third median nervule (much as in Hecahe, Linn.), as well as a usually 

 rather more pronounced small projection on first median nervule. 

 Hind-iving : terminal nervular spots considerably enlarged and thinly 

 elongated laterally. Under side. — Markings as in Floricola, hut much 

 more strongly marked, especially the sidiapical ferruginous patch of fore- 

 wing, which is broad and dark {more partindarly in $), and the irre- 

 gidar transverse discal streak of hind-iving. Fore-wing : terminal disco- 



1 See T. Jithiopica, Trim., infra, No. 243. 



