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iving : black border well defined, about the same widtli as in Zuc, its inner 

 edge forming- sharper and more numerous dentations on nervules, its 

 lower extremity becoming attenuated and suffused with yellowish scales, 

 and terminating in a point on submedian nervure ; inner margin rather 

 widely bordered with sulphur-yellow. Cilia without any rufous tinge, 

 but mixed with greyish-brown in fore-wing. Under side. — SidphiLr- 

 yelloiv ; dark borders faintly indicated from upper side ; markings gene- 

 rally arranged as in Desjardinsii, hut dusky-grey instead of ferruginous, 

 and very indistinct ; the subapical streak of fore- wing and uj)per discal 

 streak of hind-wing usually altogether wanting, but sometimes faintly 

 indicated. Fore-wing : no ferruginous tinge at apex or along hind- 

 margin . Hind-wing : costal border finely and rather sparsely irrorated 

 with blackish atoms. 



^ Sulplmr-yelloto, more or less sparsely irrorated tvith blackish 

 atoms ; fore-iving border didler, but as broad, or nearly as broad, as 

 in $, except just at posterior angle ; Jiind-wing border reduced, varying 

 from a narroiv stripe, forming strong nervidar p)^'oj (actions inwardly, to 

 a series of disconnected slender nervular marks. Fore-iving : irroration 

 most developed near base, along costa, and in upper part of discoidal 

 cell ; a slight suffusion of gamboge-yellow over lower basi-inner-mar- 

 ginal area, as in Desjardinsii. Hind-icing : irroration scantier than 

 in fore-wing, usually confined a little space close to base, but some- 

 times extending over discoidal cell and below it. Under side. — As 

 in ^, but paler, and the subapical streak of fore-wing and upper 

 discal streak of hind- wing usually more or less distinct and tinged with 

 ferruginous, but never strongly marked as in Desjardinsii. 



I have not seen Mr. Butler's type of Eegidaris, which he described 

 from an Abyssinian collection of insects, but from his description I 

 feel almost certain that it is identical with the ^ of the South-African 

 butterfly here described. I also associate with Begularis two ^ s from 

 the coast of Tropical Western Africa, which are in the South-African 

 ]\Iuseum, and which only differ in the broader black border of the 

 wings (in the hind-wing especially, where it ends truncately above 

 submedian nervure), and their somewhat more rounded outline. 



I wrote a description of this Teriax in 186 1, from a $ cajjtured at King 

 "William's Town by Mr. AY. S. M. D'Urban iu January of that year, but did 

 liot tlieu, or for some years afterwards, think it sufficiently distinct from Des- 

 jardinisii to be more than a variety of that species. In 1867 I had the plea- 

 sure of capturing a number of both sexes, both on the coast and in the inland 

 districts of K'atal, and was so fortunate as to take two pairs in copula, — one at 

 Fort Buckingham, on the Tugela, on the 8th March, and the other near Grey- 

 town on the nth. The species was on the wing in February, March, and 

 April, and Colonel Bowker took one near Maritzburg early in May. When 

 flying, it is not distinguishable from T. Zee. Mr. K. Lightfoot, of Cape Town, 

 has shown me a small ^ received in a collection made near Plettenberg Bay, 

 in the Knysna District, by Miss Newdigate in the year 1886. This is the 

 only example I know of which has occurred so far to the south and west. 



