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from tlie Stockholm Museum by Mr. Chr. Aurivillius, agrees with Wal- 

 lengren's description {loc. cU.), aiul with a ^ from Delagoa Bay and 

 another from Transvaal, in wanting altogether the white inter-nervular 

 streaks usually marking the coniluent discal ray and hind-marginal 

 border of the hind-wings, so that a very broad uniform black border 

 covers the lower two-thirds of the outer part of those wings. Mr. 

 J. L. Fry has sent me a $ similarly marked from Tati. 



I am unable to distinguish Eoisd aval's Eiouc from his Phlegetonia, 

 the only characters noted in his descriptions being the smaller size and 

 greyish-yellowish under side of the former, — features highly variable, 

 and presenting every gradation. 



Mr. Butler {Joe. cit., pp. 1 43-144) identifies rUcgetonia, Boisd., with 

 Antigone, Boisd. {Sp. Gen., p. 572), but the description of the latter 

 (only the $ is described) as having ou the upper side " la hase ct la 

 commissure U'gcrcmcnt saupoudrees dc gris" and as regards the hind- 

 wino-s, simply " une hordure noire creneUe," indicates a different insect 

 from the heavily black banded and bordered Phlegclonia ; although it 

 must be admitted (as stated under T. Antigone) that the darkest 

 examples do nearly approach Phlegetonia in marking. 



This is one of the most striking of the smaller species of Teracohis, tlie 

 relatively large size of the orange patch and the depth and extent of the black 

 markings rendering it very conspicuous. I found it very seldom during my 

 stay in^Natal, but abundantly in the scrub bush at Uitenhage, Cape Colony. 

 It is an active insect, but not swift, and flics close to the ground, appearing in 

 the height of summer (January to March). Near Graliamstown I also met witli 

 the species, and on the 12th February 1870 captured the united sexes. In 

 this pair neither sex had the black markings at their highest development, and 

 the well-marked apical orange of the $ partly penetrated the upper part of its 

 broad inner blackish border. In another pair, taken in copidd by Colonel 

 Bowker near the Upper Tugela on 2d April 1880, the S has heavy dark mark- 

 ings, but the $ is scarcely more heavily marked than the darkest ? s of Antigone, 

 and has the apical orange superiorly almost as in the ^ , the usual dark inner 

 border being reduced to a series of dusky nervular marks well within the orange. 1 



Localities of Teracolus Fhlegetonia. 

 I. South Africa. 

 13. Cape Colony, 



b. Eastern Districts. — Uitenhage. Grahamstown. 



D. Kaflfraria Proper. — Bashee River {J. H. Bowker). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Verulam. 



h. Upper Districts. — Greytown. Valley of Tugela and Mooi Rivers 

 (/. H. Bowker). 

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

 H, Delagoa Bay. — Louren^o Marques {Mrs. Monteiro). 

 K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District {T. Ayres). Marico and Limpopo 

 Rivers {F. C. Setous). 



1 A very fine ? , sent from Weenen County in Natal by Mr. J. M. Hutchinson, consider- 

 ably surpasses that here noticed as regards the width of the apical orange and the faintness 

 of the traces of the inner dark border of the orange, but presents, on the contrary, all the 

 great black markings in their highest development on both wings. 



