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Ent. Soc. LoiuL, 3nl Ser., i. p. 522, 1863), from Damaralaiul, is iden- 

 tical — seems entitled to species rank. Only the $ of this butterfly is 

 known,^ and I have not seen any example except the two on which 

 (in ignorance of Wallengren's diagnosis) I proposed the species Phomon. 

 Compared with Cdimene, these examples of Pholoe are much smaller 

 {cxp. al. I in. 6 lin.) ; the apical patch is duller, with less crimson in 

 its tint, with all its black borders and neuration, as well as the inter- 

 secting streak, duller and narrower ; the disco-cellular dot is distinct 

 on the upper side of the fore-wing, while the hind-wing has no black 

 border, but merely a thin blackish lino on hind-marginal edge as far 

 as second subcostal nervule and the extremities of four nervules clouded 

 with black (the first median nervule and the submedian nervure being 

 unmarked). On the under side the ground-colour is paler, nearly 

 white ; the neuration clouding yellower ; in the fore-wings, the basal 

 orange-yellow is more extended and deeper ; the disco-cellular dot 

 enlarged ; and the red on inner side of apical patch duller, paler, 

 without tinge of pink, and very much reduced, being almost obso- 

 lete above lower radial nervule ; while in the hind-wings the two sub- 

 transverse strias are duller and yellower and less irregular — the outer 

 one especially being not nearly so widely disjoined on third median 

 nervule. 



As far as at present known, Tliolol may be regarded as the Western repre- 

 sentative of the East- African Gelbnene. 



The latter appears to be by no means frequent in collections. I examined 

 a pair from the Zambesi (the types of Amina) in the Hewitson Collection, and 

 the British Museum also possesses a $ taken by the late Mr. E. C. Buxton in 

 Swaziland. In the North-West Transvaal, on the Limpopo and Marico, the 

 butterfly seems to be not very rare, Mr. E. C. Selous having forwarded four $ s 

 and a 5 from thence, and also a $ from the Makloutze River within the Tropic. 

 Mr. T. Ayres' collection contained a $ (now in the South-African Museum), 

 captured " between the Limpopo and Zambesi." 



Celimene and Pholoe constitute a singular section of Teracolus, wliich, as 

 Mr. Butler {loc. cit.) has pointed out, is less isolated than it appeared to be 

 since the discovery in Somaliland of the beautiful 2\ prceclanis, Butl. (loc. cit., 

 p. 769, pi. xlvii. f. 7, $ ). The ^ of this species is on the upper side very like 

 the (J Celimene, but has the purple-red patch even larger, while the $ presents 

 in the equally large black apical patch a central lake-red macular band and six 

 small hind-marginal spots of the same colour. On the under side, however, 

 though the pattern of the fore-wings is not widely different from that shown 

 by Celimene, in the hind-wings the absence of red neuration and of the strise, 

 and the presence of a brownish discal band and of reddish-ochreous colouring 

 beyond it, exhibit more resemblance to the splendid T. Zoe, Grandidier, of 

 Madagascar. The under-side colouring and pattern in Celimene and Plwlo'e 

 combine to some extent the features of the very different T. Eulimene, Klug, 

 from Dongola, and T. Vesta, Reiche, while the upper side presents no likeness 

 to that of either of those species. 



^ Mr. Butler (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1SS5, p. 770) regards the diagnosis of Wallengren's 

 Pholoe as relating to the ? ; but it is clear to me that the description of the apical patch, 

 " maculis biseriatis rubris violaceo-micantibus, lineolisque marginalibus flavis," can only 

 apply to the i . 



