viepjx.t:. 105 



Butl. I have not seen any $ that appears certainly referable to this 

 variety, but one or two of the $ s referred to Sjnxiosus exhibit some 

 traces of similar black neuration towards the hind-margin of both fore 

 and hind wings on the under side. 



Localities of Teracolus lone. 

 I. South Africa. 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts.— D'Urbau (tlie late M. J. M'Kcn—\i\x. A.). 



Pinetown {Colonel J. II. Bowker — Var. A.). 

 H. Delagoa Bay. — Loureugo Marques {Mrs. Monteiro). 

 K. Transvaal. — Limpopo and Marico Rivers {F. G. Seloiis). Lyden- 



burg {A. F. Ortlejqt). Lydenburg District {T. Ayres). 



II. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



b. Eastern Coast, — Zambesi River {Rev. II. liowleij). " Tette." — 



Hopli'er. " Querimba." — Hopffer. " Bagamoyo and Zanzibar 

 {Rafray)." — Obertbiir. Zanzibar. — Coll. Hewitson. Mamboio. 

 —Coll. Brit. Mus. 



61. Eastern Interior.— " Tati {Gales)."— ^VesUvood. 



bb. Eastern Islands.— Madagascar.— Coll. Brit. Mus. 



B. North Tropical. 



a. Western Coast.— Senegal (the late E. C. Buxton). — Coll. Brit. 



Mus. 

 61. Eastern Interior. — Abyssinia: " Shoa {Antinori)." — Oberthlir. 



White Nile {Druce).—Co\\. Brit. ]\Ius. 



270. (6.) Teracolus Speciosus, (Wallengren). 



^ ? Anthocharis lone, Boisd., App. Voy. Deleg. Afr. Aust., p. 587 



(1847). 

 $ Anthocharis Erone, Angas, Ivafirs. Illustr., pi. xxx. f. 3 (1849). 

 $ AntlioiJsyche Speeiosa, Wallengr., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1857; 



Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 16, n. 14. 

 ^ 9 Anthocharis lune, Trim.. Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 43, n. 26 (1862). 

 Teracolus lone, Butl. [part.], Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1876, p. 132. 



Exp. al, {$) 2 in. 2-4 lin. ; ($) 2 in. 2-4 lin. 



$ White, ivith lustrous-violet apical marking hroadly hordered with 

 Hack. Fore-iving : the nervures defined with black to same extent as 

 in lone, Godt. ; base and costa greyish ; a black terminal disco-cellular 

 dot ; violet band at apex narrow, divided into four by the nervules 

 (the uppermost division much smaller than the rest, or sometimes 

 obsolete), margined both outwardly and inwardly with a broad black 

 band, the outer band narrowing to a thin streak at posterior angle. 

 Hind-ioing : base greyish ; nerwires all black, with moderately large 

 diffused black spots on their hind-marginal extremities. Under side. 

 — Fore-ioing : costa narrowly yellowdsh ; apical yatch varying from 

 pale straiv-yellow to pale chrome-yelloiv ; disco-cellular spot larger than 

 on upper side. Hind-iaing : same tint as apical patch of fore-iving ; 

 nervures not black ; a distinct spot at extremity of discoidal cell ; 



