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Anna' aiul Uupompe, Klug, recorded from Nortli-East Africa and 

 Arabia. 



The typical ^ presents some variation in the dusky-grey basal 

 clouding, but iu only one specimen (from Kaffraria Proper) is there a 

 marked diminution of it, aud that in the fore-wings only. A ^ from 

 Damaraland approaches the individual just mentioned to some extent, 

 and also presents a less developed and submacular border in the hind- 

 wings. The latter peculiarity (approaching the Variety A.) occurs in 

 an otherwise strongly-marked and very typical $ from the North-West 

 Transvaal. The $ vai-ies more in the development of the marginal 

 blackish (which in the hind- wings of one KafFrarian example is so great 

 as to obliterate entirely the usual white band or spots beyond the discal 

 blackish series), and in the tint of the apical patch. In one example 

 from the North-West Transvaal this last feature is much suffused with 

 fascons, and the colour of the very diminished pale portion is very dull 

 pale ochrey-yellowish. 



In Natal I only once fell in witli this strikingly handsome butterfly, viz., 

 on 23d February, about a hill-top near Verulam, where two or three examples 

 were flying rapidly about flowers. Mr. Gooch (Entomologist, 1880, p. 274) 

 notes the capture of a line series five miles inland from D'Urban.^ Colonel 

 Bowker has sent but a few examples from the same neighbourhood ; but in 

 former years he forwarded many fine specimens from the Bashee Eiver in 

 Kaffraria,- and in 1873 dispatched to me the paired sexes captured at Fort 

 Warden, on the west bank of the Kei. To the northward of the Transvaal, 

 and in tlie Tropical belt beyond, as well as in Damaraland, the type-form and 

 the variety appear to be both numerous. 



Localities of Teracolus Anncc. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



h. Eastern Districts. — Fort Warden, Kei Eiver (J. H. Boicker). St. 

 John's River Mouth (Sir H. Barkly— Var. A.). 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — Bashee and Tsomo Rivers {J. II. Bowker). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts.— D'TJrban ( /. //. Bowlcer and the late M. J. M'Ken 



— Typ. and Var. A.). 

 h. Upper Districts. — Rorke's Drift (J. H. Boivker). 

 K. Transvaal. — Limpopo and Marico Rivers (F. C. Selous). Junction 

 of those rivers {A. W. Eriksson— Tyg. and Var. A.). 



^ Mr. A. D. Millar, in referring to some fine specimens taken in December 1887, 

 informs me that during that month Anna is plentiful in certain localities about D'Urban, 

 but, as a rule, is restricted to those localities. He noted a ? laying eggs on a climbing 

 plant. 



- One of these specimens is very remarkable, as exhibiting to some extent the characters 

 of both sexes. The ground-colour is as white as usual in the S ; the basal clouding is 

 irregularly but for its larger part made grey, as in the i, by close white scaling; the 

 border of the hind-wings is like that of tlie (J , but the discal row of black spots as in the 

 9 ; and, finally, while the left apical patch is coloured and marked as in the 9 , the right 

 one is (except for the narrow strip above subcostal nervule) entirely like that in the <J . 



