i6o SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



Localities of Tcracolus Cdimcne. 



I. South Africa. 



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



K. Transvaal. — Limpopo and INIarico Rivers {F. C. Selous). 



II. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



^i. Eastern Interior. — Makloutze River (F. C. Selous). Between 

 Limpopo and Zambesi Rivers (T. Ayres). Zambesi. — Coll. 

 Hewitson. 



B. Xorth Tropical. 



bi. Eastern Interior. — "Abyssinia." — Lucas. 



293. (29.) Teracolus Vesta, Reiclie. 



Idmais Vesta, Reiche, Ferr. et Gal., Voy. Abyss., iii. p. 463, pi. xxxi. ff. 

 7, 8 (1849). 

 ,, ,, Hopff., Peters' Reise nach Mossamb., Ins., p. 361 (1862). 



Var. Teracolus argillaceus, Butl., Ann. and ]Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th Ser., xix. 



P- 459> 11- 3 (1877)- 

 Idmais Vesta, Stand., Exot. Schmett, i. pi. 23 (1884). 



Exp. al, (^) I in. 7-9I lin. ; ($) I iu. 7^-10! lin. 



$ Deep cream colour, inclining sometimes to a slightly pinh, sometimes 

 to an oclirey-yellow tint ; bordered and transversely handed %vith Uacic ; 

 hasal areas ivhitc, near tliorax more or less clouded with Uuish-grey ; 

 neuration beyond middle blacJc-clouded in both loings. Fore-wing : basal 

 bluish-grey variable in extent, covering from one-third to two-thirds 

 of discoidal cell, so that white area beyond (extending to extremity of 

 cell and to a little before middle inner-marginally) is wider or narrower 

 accordingly ; costa blackish-edged, but covered as far as end of cell by 

 basal bluish-grey ; a broad large elongated slightly-curved terminal 

 disco-cellular black marking, superiorly touching costal blackish ; black 

 nervular clouding only failing on lower radial nervule ; a highly irre- 

 gular discal black band, strongly sinuated both superiorly and mesial) y, 

 broad superiorly and inferiorly, but rather thin in its middle sinuation 

 (on median nervules), runs from costa to inner margin ; a broad black 

 hind-marginal border, marked externally by six short inter-nervular 

 linear marks of the ground-colour, and internally more or less intimately 

 united with discal band by the black-clouded nervules, so as to enclose 

 eight unequal spots of the ground-colour (the four upper smaller than 

 the four lower ones). liind-wing : basal bluish-grey variable in extent, 

 sometimes so wide as to obliterate the white usually present beyond it ; 

 about middle of costa commences a transverse black band of variable 

 width, both internally and externally rather irregularly dentate on 

 nervules, extending almost to submedian nervure, not far before anal 

 angle ; a broad hind-marginal black border as in fore- wing, but with 

 seven external spots (not streaks) of the gi'ound-colour, and so united 



