loo SOUTII-AFRTCAX BUTTEEFLTES. 



268. (4.) Teracolus Bowkeri, Trimen. 



($ Callosune Agoye, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1870, p. 381. 

 $ ? Teracolus BowJieri, Trim., o^j. cit, 1883, p. 358. 



Plate XI. fig. 4 ($)? 



Exp. al., ($) I in. O-y^ lin. ; ($) i in. 7-7^ lin. 

 $ White, with ijellow-ochrcous apical patch in forc-iving. Forc- 

 loing : base and costa sparsely irroratecl with black ; apical patcli 

 internally irregularly bordered with black, which is broad in its 

 middle j^art (and sometimes also in its upper part), but attenuated 

 and usually ill-defined towards its extremities ; a narrow ray of clear 

 yellow-ochreous immediately beyond the black, but the rest of apical 

 patch tinged with greyish. Hincl-iving : base irrorated with black, 

 more widely and rather more closely than in fore-wing ; a longitudinal 

 ray of black irroration on costa beyond middle, its outer extremity 

 sometimes strongly marked ; subcostal nervules very rarely thinly 

 defined with black ; in some specimens a few black atoms scattered 

 about disc. Under side. — Hind-ioing and apical area of fore-wing 

 very faintly tinged with ycllowi&h. Hind-wing : costa very narrowly 

 edged with chrome-yellow from base to a little beyond middle ; a 

 general very fine and very sparse irroration of dusky atoms. 



$ Fore-7'jing : apiccd patch fiiscous-hrownish, darker imvardly, tra- 

 versed mesicdly hy a dull yellow-ochreous ray, which is sometimes 

 suffused and ill-defined ; base more widely irrorated than in male. 

 Hind-vjing : beyond middle, from costa, a transverse row of three ill- 

 defined dull-fuscous spots, the first of which represents the termina- 

 tion of the black costal irroration in the male. Under side. — Yelloivish 

 colotiring much more decided than in male. Hind-uiing : fine dusky 

 irroration closer than in male. 



Variety A. — {$ and $). Considerably smaller : cxp. al. (3 ^ s) 

 I in. 3-5 lin.; (2 $ s) i in. 2^-41 lin. 



^ Costal and basal irroration wanting in fore-wing and all but 

 absent in hind-wing ; inner black edging of apical patch of fore-wing 

 narrower. Under side. — Tinge of yellow more decided. 



^ Basal irroration wanting, as well as faint fuscous spots of hind- 

 wing ; apical patch of fore-wing redder, its dusky-brown borders much 

 reduced ; the external one almost obsolete. Under side. — Yellowish 

 deeper, in one specimen tinged with creamy-pinkish. 



(^Hcd). — Namaqualand District, Cape Colony.) 



This near ally of T. Agoye, Wallengr., is, in the ^, distinguishable 



1 This figure is no credit to ehromo-lithography, and gives a very incorrect idea of the 

 species. The apical patch is much too dull and dusky in tint, and the ground-colour 

 generally, instead of being pure white, as in nature, is represented with various yellow 

 and greenish shades. On the under side, also, the apical shade is much too dusky, and the 

 hind-wing too much stained with yellowish. I write while comparing with the figure the 

 actual specimen from which it was drawn. 



