44 Dr. Gr. B. Longstaff on 



This Teracolus has a more restricted distribution than 

 any that I have met with; my specimens were all taken 

 within a dozen miles of Khartum — the most southerly at 

 Soba [Lat. 15° 32' N.]. Shendi is in Lat. 16° 42' N./and 

 Ambukol in Lat. 18° 4' N., so that the total range in 

 latitude is but 2|°. 



There is a specimen in the Hope collection taken by 

 E. N. Bennett on the Upper Nile near the Pyramids of 

 Meroe [Lat. 16° 55' N.], which are not many miles north 

 of Shendi. There is, however, another specimen, which 

 seems to be referable to the same species, that was taken 

 by " S. L. and H. Hinde " in the Kenya district of British 

 East Africa — about on the Equator. 



Very closely allied to ephyia, but separable from it, is 

 T. lads, Butl., of which Aurivillius (3. p. 5) gives the dis- 

 tribution as from Damaraland to Natal. Prof. E. B. 

 Poulton, in 1905, took a specimen at Artesia station, 

 British Bechuanaland [Lat. 24° S.]. T. lais might be termed 

 the representative species of T. ephyia in South Africa.* 



Mr. Hinde's specimen was taken 15|° south of my speci- 

 mens of ephyia, and the extreme north of Damaraland is 

 yet another 17° further south, so that whether it be referred 

 to ephyia or to lais, it was found in an (at least apparently) 

 extremely isolated position. 



60. Teracolus liagore, Klug. 



[Plate II, fig. 7 c^, 8 ?. 9 (^ u. s.] 



The type came from Ambukol, though Kirby's Catalogue 

 gives Arabia. 



This is another little-known butterfly. Miss Sharpe 

 [A Monograph of Teracolus, 1901, p. 128] considers 

 liagore to be the dry-season form of daira, but on what 

 grounds I know not. Dr. Dixey says it is impossible. 



In 1909 I took a male at Ad-Duwem [Lat. 14° 0' N.], 

 the only White Nile record that I know of. In 1912 I 

 took a female near Soba station. 



[For the Hon. N. C. Eothschild's captures see the 

 preceding species.] 



Mr. Cholmley took four males in the district to the 

 north of Suakin. Mrs. Waterfield takes it at Port Siidan, 

 where I myself took seven males and five females. 



* Compare Dr. Dixey's remarks, Proc. Ent. Soc. London (1912), 

 p. cxli. 



