2 2 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



cellular mark indistinctly geminate, larger ; subapical patch more or 

 less reproducing internal outline of upper side of black border as far as 

 third median nervule, but in $ emitting downward from its outer side 

 a narrow somewhat incurved projection as far as inter-nervular fold 

 between third and second median nervules. Hind-ioing : terminal 

 disco -cellular mark much enlarged, not geminate, sub-reniform ; discal 

 transverse streak very distinct, and usually (more particularly in $) 

 outwardly suffused in its middle portion between first subcostal and 

 third median nervules ; hind-marginal nervular spots not lengthened 

 laterally as on upper side, and only a little larger than in Floricola. 



I have reluctantly been compelled to re-name this Terias, because, though 

 evidently the same as Seiiegalensis, Geyer, it is not the form to which the 

 name of Senegalensis was given by Boisduval in 1836 {Sp. Gen..Lep., i. p. 

 672). The latter author states expressly that the under side of his species was 

 so faint in its markings as at first to appear to have none, Avhereas the Terias 

 now under notice, of which Geyer figures the $ , is remarkable for the great 

 development of the under-side pattern, especially in the $ . Boisduval's insect 

 is evidently very close to Hecahe, L., and perhaps not separable from it. 



In the above description T. JEthiopica is sufficiently distinguished from 

 T. floricola, Boisd., but it conies even nearer to the Indian and Australian T. 

 Sari, Horsfield (from which the Cingalese T. simulata and T. uuiformis of 

 JNIoore ^ cannot, I think, be separated). The only obvious distinctions of 

 yEfhiopica are on the upper side the very slight inward inferior prominence 

 of the fore-wing border (which in Sari is very pronounced), and tlie hind- 

 marginal marking of the hind-wing being restricted to small separate spots 

 (instead of, as in Sari, a narrow continuous blackish border). This latter 

 feature is, however, inclined to be unstable, for in one ^ y^thiojnca the thin, 

 laterally elongated spots almost unite. A hind-wing border of variable width 

 is a character of T. Hecabe, and thus Sari is nearer to the latter than ^thio- 

 pica is. 



I have seen but few examples of this Terias from South Africa. A $ 

 was sent by Colonel Bowker from Kart'raria Proper in 1866, and another 

 labelled "Natal" was received at the South-African Museum in a collection 

 acquired about the same date. In 1867 Colonel Tower gave me a 5 captured 

 at St. Lucia Bay, and the Museum received a series of the same sex taken in 

 Natal by the late Mr. M. J. M'Ken. I did not meet with the insect during my 

 collecting excursions in Natal. 



Localities of Terias ^thiopica. 



I. South Africa. 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo River (J. H. Bowher) 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts.— D'Urban {M. J. M'Ken). 



F. Zululand. — St. Lucia Bay {CoIo)iel H. Toicer). 



II. Other African Regions. 

 B. North Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — " Senegal." — Geyer. 



1 Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 119, pi. 45, ff. 2, 2a, 2b ; and p. 120, pi. 46, ff. 2, 2a, 2b (iSSi). 

 - Boisduval {op. cit. p. 670) gives Sari as a 9 variety of Hecahe, but he has not been 

 followed by Wallace (1867), Butler (1871), or Kirby (1S71). 



