riEiuN.'i:. 131 



281. (17.) Teracolus Achine, (Cramer). 



$ rapilio Achine, Cram., Tap. Exot., iv. pi. cccxxxviii. ff. k, f (lycSs). 



$ $ Aphrodite Achine, lliibn., Sannnl. Exot. Sclmiett, ii. t. 128, 11'. i, 2 

 [c?], 3, 4 [9] 0^816). 



9 Pieris Achine, Godt., Enc. Metli., ix. p. 122, n. 13 (1S19). 



$ 9 Anfhochan's Achine, Boi.^d., Rp. Gen. Lep., i. p. 574, u. 21 (1836). 



^2 „ „ Trim., lihop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 46, n. 29 (1862). 



$ Antliopsyche Roxane, Feld., Keise d, Novara, Lep., ii. p. 187, n. 182 

 (1865). 



? Teracolus AcMne, Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1876, p. 149, n. 77. 



$ 9 Teracolus Trimeni, l>utl., /oc. r-zY., n. 79. 

 Vau. (? $ Teracohis Hero, Eutl., /oc. c/Y., n. 81, p!. vi. f. 11. 

 Vau. $ ? Teracohis Huperides, Butl., loc. cit., n. 76. 



^i^j*. «^., (^) I in. 9-1 1 lin; ($) i in. 7 lin. — 2 in. 



$ White ; apical patch hright red, inclining to orange, hut glossed 

 with a Tosij lustre. Forc-iving : apical red divided into six by tho dark 

 nervules crossing it, margined outwardly by a narrow black stripe 

 sharply indenting the red by radiating npon the nervules, inwardly 

 by a thin, blackish, ill-defined streak, within which the nervules are 

 usually black, piercing white ground for a little distance ; costa edged 

 with blackish, widening above apical red ; a distinct round, black dot 

 at extremity of discoidal cell ; a broad, blackish band along inner 

 margin to beyond middle, where it very slightly curves upwards and 

 ends abruptly. Eind-iving : base greyish ; a blackish band along 

 costa adjoining that on inner margin of fore-wing, and abruptly ending 

 immediately below where the latter ends ; on hind-margin, at extremi- 

 ties of nervules, a row of black spots, variable in size, radiating on 

 nervules, and inclining to form a continuous band, generally diminish- 

 ing in size towards posterior angle. Under side. — Fore-wing : apical 

 marking soft creamy-yellow, inwardly pale-orange ; disco-cellular spot 

 distinct ; inner-marginal band pale- greyish from base, ending in a 

 darker spot. Eind-iving : varying from creamy-white to creamy-yel- 

 lowish or creamy-reddish, in the more deeply tinted examples more 

 or less irrorated with grey atoms ; costa, from base to beyond middle, 

 edged with bright orange-yellow ; disco- cellular spot orange, outwardly 

 black-dotted ; a scarcely perceptible greyish tint along costa indicates 

 the position of the costal band, the extremity of which is always shown 

 by a greyish mark, sometimes mixed with reddish ; rarely some indis- 

 tinct traces on lower disc of an angulated band. 



$ Very variable in size, frequently smaller than ^ ; of a duller ivliite, 

 or sometimes decidedly yelloivish. Fore- wing : red at apex much nar- 

 rower than in $, of a more orange tint, and withotit rosy lustre, its black 

 borders very much wider, especially the inner one (which latter is, 

 however, often intersected by the red, and occasionally with faint red- 

 dish colouring on its inner side) ; spot at extremity of discoidal cell 

 larger than in $ ; inner-marginal Uackish land very mucli hroader and 

 darker, its upper edge not clearly defined, but gradually shading off in 



