142 SOUTn-AFRICAX LUTTERFLIES. 



$ represented by Cramer exliibits a very strong orange-red edging all 

 along the costa of the hind-wings on the under side, but I have not 

 observed anything approaching this in the specimens I have examined. 

 After a very careful inspection and comparison of Mr. Butler's 

 types of T. Fscudocale and T. Angolensis (in i88i and again in i8S6), 

 I could find nothing (except the smaller size of the former) to distin- 

 guish the two from each other, nor was I able to regard them as dis- 

 tinct from the variable Uvi^^jJS. The ^ in both cases has in the apical 

 patch a narrow pale-orange five-partite band.-^ 



Evippe is the oldest recorded species of the genus, the $ liaving been 

 described by Linnaeus from Angola in 1764; and it is one of the comparatively 

 few TeracoU which are known from the West-African Coast north of the 

 ]''quator, appearing to be very numerous on the Gold Coast and at Sierra Leone. 

 The only South- African examples that I have seen are those taken by the late 

 Mr. E. C. Buxton in Swaziland, and presented by him to the British IMuseum. 

 They consist oi a. $ , referred by ]\Ir. Butler to Arethusa, Drury, and three $ s 

 (two small) and two $ s (one small), which constitute the types of his Psmdo- 

 cale. In the coloured pliotographs sent to me by JNIr. Buxton there can be 

 distinctly recognised four (J s (two small) and a 5 of Evippe, and in his num- 

 bered list accompanying them all these examples are noted as from Swaziland. 

 I have no record of the haunts or habits of this butterfly. 



Localities of Tcracolus Evippe. 



L South Africa. 



G. Swaziland.— (The late E. C. Buxton). 



II. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast.— Angola {E. C. Buxton).— CoW. Brit. IMus. 



Congo (Ciirror). — Coll. Brit. jMus. " Cliinchoxo {Falkcnstein)." 



— Dewitz. 

 hi. Eastern Interior. — "Tati, and between Inyati and Gubulewayo 



(Ort^es)."— Westwood. 



B. North Tropical. — Gold Coast ; Cape Coast Castle ( /. M. PasTc and 



A. N. Lines). Accra and Ashanti. — Coll. Brit. Mus. " Lower 

 Niger (the late W. A. Eo)-hcs)." — Godman and Salvin. Sierra 

 Leone [Foxcroft, &c.). "River Gambia {Moloney)." — G. E. 

 Shelley. 



286. (22.) Teracolus Omphale, (Godart). 



S Pieris Ompiliale, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 122, n. 12 (1S19). 

 Antliocharis Ompliale, Boisd., Sp. Gen. Lep., i. p. 574, n. 22 (1836). 

 S Anthocharis Exole, Reiche, Ferr. et Gal. Voy. Abyss., pi. 31, f. 4 (1849). 

 $ Antlioiisyche Achine, Wallengr., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1857; Lep. 

 Rhop. CafFr., p. 11, n. i. 



1 I think that Ocale, Boisd. [op. cit., p. 584, n. 37), of which only the ? is described, is 

 referable to Evippe; it is de.scribed as possessing a curved orange band of five or six divi- 

 sions in apical patch, but has the discal ray of the liind-wings more or less merged with the 

 hind-marginal black border. The specimens of both sexes referred to Ocale in the British 

 Museum collection (October 1SS6) seemed identical with Angolensis, Butl. 



