154 SOUTH- AFRICAN" BUTTERFLIES. 



II. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



a. "Western Coast. — Daruaraland (J. A. Bell and the late C. J. 



A?iders,S(m). 

 hi. Eastern Interior. — Tauwani River (F. C. Seloiis). Between 



Transvaal and Gubulewayo (A. W. Erik$so7i). Tati (/. L. Fry). 



Zambesi : " Tette."— Hopfier. 



B. North Tropical. 



a. "Western Coast. — " Accra ( (7a ?-^c'r)." — Butler. "Senegal." — Bois- 



duval. 

 hi. Eastern Interior. — Abyssinia: " Slioa {Antinori) and Bogos 



{Beccari)." — Oberthlir. 



290. (2G.) Teracolus Microcale, Butler. 



(J 5 Teracolus Microcale, But!., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th Ser., xviii. 

 p. 487 (1876). 



Ux2^. al., ($) I in. 6 liu, ; ($) i in. 3! lin. 



$ Wlhite, ivith rather large orange apical 2Mtch bordered rather ividcly 

 througliout with hlacldsh. Fore-wing : base rather broadly irrorated 

 with blackish ; apical orange of six divisions, being outwardly deeply 

 pierced by black nervules. Hind-ioing : a series of rather large blackish 

 nervular hind-marginal spots, of whicla the three npper ones are con- 

 fluent. Ua'DER side. — White. Forc-inng : a terminal disco-cellular 

 black dot ; apical orange of upper side showing faintly through. Ilind- 

 iving : a terminal disco-cellular black dot attached to a preceding small 

 orange spot. 



^ Similar, smcdler ; luith apical orange narrow, curved, open at its 

 lower extremity so as to touch white field heneath third median nermde. 

 Iliiid-ioing : hind-marginal spots smaller, more separate. Under side. 

 — Hind-wing and apical pcdch of forc-iving creamy tinged with yellowish, 

 rery thinly irroredcd ivith Ironmish. Forc-tving : base tinged with pale 

 sulphur-yellow. Hind-vjing : a faint trace of a brownish discal elbowed 

 bar across median nervules. 



This little species comes perhaps closer to the Eoippe group than any other, 

 and is noticeable for the wide even dark bordering of the apical patch on all 

 sides. Neither sex has any longitudinal black markings in either wing. Mr. 

 Butler founded the species on a (J and a $ from the Atbara (Soudan), and my 

 description is made from those type specimens and from a second 5 > ticketed 

 " Orange River," placed with the others in the British ]\Iuseum collection. I 

 did not ascertain who had signified the locality of the last-named example, but 

 I could detect no difference of any importance between it and the type $ . 



Localities of Teracolus Microccde. 



I. South Africa. 



B. Cape Colony.— Orange River. — Coll. Brit. Mus. 



ir. Other African Regions. 

 B. North Tropical. 



hi. Eastern Interior. — Soudan: Atbara River.— Coll. Brit. Mus. 



