138 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



than the two ^ ]}n])se, pale-yellow on the back, the dorsal median 

 streak purple, and most of the other streaks dull vinous-i-ed. 



After careful comparison of a large number of South-African speci- 

 mens, and examination of the types of Mr. Butler's four species above 

 named, I have found no characters serving to distinguish the latter 

 from one another (except size), or the Southern Antcviiypc generally 

 from the Senegal one constituting Boisduval's type. This author 

 figures the upper side of a ^, showing no trace of any blackish on the 

 inner edge of the apical patch, but in which the hind-marginal spots 

 of the hind-wing are sufficiently enlarged to form a narrow continuous 

 edging. Geyer's figui'es (pp. cit.) of a ^ from the same country repre- 

 sent the same total absence of any inner blackish to the patch, but 

 differ in the more reduced and almost macular state of the outer black 

 edging ; while the hind-wing spots are much smaller and not united, 

 and the under side of the hind-wing has a decidedly pinkish-creamy 

 tinge. 



In Mr. Butler's series, Ignifer is the largest, and the $ has a 

 slight blackish inner edge to the apical patch. It is to his " Var. ^ " 

 of this that are referable the specimens described by me as Antevipjoe 

 (op. cit.) in 1862; in them the inner edging referred to is better 

 expressed, and but for the entire want of the longitudinal blackish 

 stripe in both wings, they closely resemble the ordinary ^ Achine} 

 The specimens of ItJionus, Butl., seemed to me quite inseparable from 

 Ignifer except by their smaller size in both sexes ; Hippocrc^ie again 

 was represented by still smaller examples and a ^ with dull pale- 

 yellowish upper-side apical marking, and Harmonidcs by the smallest 

 of the series (exp. al. 1 in. 5 lin.).^ 



In October 1885 I received from Colonel Bowker the paired sexes, then 

 recently captured by him near D'Urban in Natal. The (J of this pair has no 

 blackish whatever along the inner edge of the apical red ; and the $ has the 

 apical orange-red well developed, witli the traversing macular blackish ray thin 

 and faint, while the discal ray of the hind-wings is almost obsolete. The 

 under-side iiroratiou is well developed in both (J and 9 • 



There is nothing special about the habits of this Teracolus, which on the 

 wing resembles Achine. It was much scarcer than the latter when I was col- 

 lecting in the Knysna district of the Cape Colony, and I only fell in with it 

 eluring the month of November. On the coast of Natal it is evidently abun- 

 dant in tlie dry (winter) season. Colonel Bowker having collected a large 

 number, chiefly in the month of August ; ^ of which the ? s exhibit every 

 gradation of size, development of upper-side black markings, and tint of apical 

 patch. A few specimens w^ere sent from the Trans-Keian territory by Colonel 

 Bowker as long ago as 1861-63, and are still in the collection of the South- 



1 Colonel Bowker has sent one example from D'Urban, Natal, which shows a still nearer 

 approach to Achine by possessing a very faint diffused sjjarse blackish irroration along the 

 inner margin of the fore-wings. 



^ Judging from the figure {Exot. Schmctt, i. pi. 23, 1S84), Staudinger's Uavcrnkldi from 

 "Transvaal" is a small S of Antevippc, 



^ One of two i s collected at "D'Urban by Mr. A. D. Millar is ticketed " 17th September 

 1S87," and the other " loth Febniary iSSS." 



