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Sjyeciostis is a remarkably local form, being apparently restricted to the 

 coast belt of Natal, and, as far as I am aware, not having hitherto been recorded 

 out of D'Urban County. Within tliesc narrow limits it is very numerous, and 

 I met with it in abundance about D'Urban at the end of January, all through 

 February, and again at the end of March and beginning of April 1867. Colonel 

 Bowker has taken it freely in December also. The red-tipped form of $ is 

 much less frequently met with than the other. I fell in with three specimens 

 only during my visit, and Colonel Bowker has also noted its scarcity as coni- 

 parctl with the black-and-white-tipped $ . 



The lovely (^ is a very active and even rapid flyer, but the ? is much 

 slower in her movements. Both sexes are fond of flowers, and 1 captured the 

 finest specimens I obtained on those of Viiica rosea and of Lantana in the 

 Botanic Gardens on the Berea Hill On the ist February I observed and 

 netted a S ^^"^ ^ red-tipped ? playing together close to the ground. ^ I did 

 not meet with the species anywhere away from the neighbourhood of D'Urban. 



Localities of Teracolus speciosiis. 



I. South Africa. 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts.— D'Urban. Pinetown (/. IL Boioker). "Lower 

 Umkomazi." — J. H. Buwkcr, 



27L (7.) Teracolus Jobina, Butler. 



$ $ Euchloe Johina, But!., Cist. Ent., i. p. 14, n. 2 (1869). 



$ ? Teracolus Jobina, Butl, Lep. Exot., p. 116, pL xliii. f. 3 [ c^ ] (1872). 



$ $ Yar. Callosune Jobina, Stand., Exot. Schmett., i. pi. 23 (1884). 



-£'^7^ al, {$) I in. lol lin. — 2 in. i lin. ; (?) i in. i i liu.— 2 in. 

 ijlin. 



Closely allied to Spcciosus, Wallengr. 



^ IVliite, with shining-violet apical patch of forc-ioiiig comparatively 

 larger than in Spcciosus, and less loidcly Hack-edged on loth sides. Fore- 

 wing : apical violet shaped much as in Speciosus, and divided similarly, but 

 wider, and with a minute fifth portion between third and fourth subcostal 

 nervules almost always present ;^ basal grey irroration very limited ; on 

 costa sometimes a creamy-reddish tinge from base for a little distance ; 

 terminal disco-cellular spot very faint or obsolete altogether. Hind-iving : 

 usually subcostal nervules only black-marked (and those often only to- 

 wards their termination) ; rarely the other nervules are black near hind- 

 margin, and with an inclination to a spot at the extremity. Cilia in 

 fore-wing creamy-reddish, except a white portion near posterior angle ; 

 in hind-wing more or less white in apical half, but the rest creamy- 

 reddish. Under side. — Hind-wing and apical patch of fore-wing pale 

 reddish-creamy ivith a tinge of pink, — the former generally hut sp)arscly 

 marked ivith short transverse grey striolm. Fore-wing : costa narrowly 

 edged with creamy-reddish; terminal disco-cellular spot small but dis- 



^ This minute ivliiiodt linear bit uf violet id .soiuotiaiLS fuuud in Spcciosus. 



