26 SOUTH-Al^RICAX BUTTERFLIES. 



the $. The majority of the South- African ^ s have the border about 

 as narrow as in the Malagasy type figured by Boisduval ; but, on the 

 other hand, there are some examples in which it is much more reduced, 

 the extreme of naiTOwness being reached in a small ^ from the Bashee 

 River, and another from Lydenburg in the Transvaal. The $ s vary 

 similarly as far as the fore-wing border is concerned, but here the 

 extreme of reduction breaks up the hind-marginal portion of the border 

 into very nearly separated spots. 



The 9 of this Terias was sent to the South-African Museum by Colonel 

 Bowker from Butterworth, Kaffraria Proper, as long ago as 1861, with the note 

 that it freqiiented forest-chad country, while its allies (!'. Zoe and Brigitta) 

 Avere found quite in the open. It was not until some years later that ^ s and 

 further $ s were received from the same territory ; and in 1 865 I met with both 

 sexes when landing for a day at D'Urban, Natal, towards the end of June. In 

 1867 I took the butterfly sparingly in the same locality during February and 

 ]\rarch, and also found it near Maritzburg in April. It was taken in Zululand 

 during the same year by the late Colonel Tower. The best locality for it near 

 D'Urban was the Botanic Garden, whence the late Mr. M'Ken also sent a good 

 many specimens. On the wing it can be recognised at once by the narrowness 

 of its black borderino;. 



Localities of Terias Dcsjardinsii. 



I. South Africa. 



I). Kaffraria Proper. — Butterworth and Bashee River (J. H. Boivher). 

 E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Avoca (/. H. Bowker). 



b. Upper Districts. — Maritzburg. 



F". Zululand. — St. Lucia Ikxj (the late Colonel H. Tower). 

 K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District {T. Ayres). Lydenburg (^A. F. 

 Ortlepp). 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



bb. Eastern Islands. — Madagascar {E. L. Layard). 



246. (7.) Terias regularis, Butler. 



$ Terias Desjardinsii ? '^ , Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 79 (1862). 

 (J „ regularis, Butl., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th Ser., vol. xviii. 

 p. 486 (1876). 



Allied to T. Desjardinsii, Boisd. 



Exp., {$) I in. 6-8 lin. ; $ i in. 6-8^ lin. 



$ Gainhogc-yeUo^u ; fore-iuing rather hroadly bordered with black, 

 hind-iving about half as broadly bordered. Fore-wing : base narrowly 

 blackish ; costal nervure as far as first subcostal nervule, and a space 

 above and below it, irrorated with black atoms ; black border almost as 

 broad along costa as in T. Zoi}, not so wide apically, but broader hind- 

 marginally, and specially broader at posterior angle, — its inner edge 

 rather more irregular superiorly and hollowed about its middle. Hind- 



