214 Mr. A. G. Butler on the Genus Terias. 



Terias zoraide^ Felder {australis, Wallace). 



This is doubtless the representative of T. drona occurring 

 in Australia ; it is very like the latter, but has comparativelj 

 broader and shorter primaries. 



Terias drona^ Horsfield. 



Usually a little darker than the preceding (unless, indeed, 

 the colouring deepens with age). We have it only from 

 Java, the Indian representative usually identified as T. drona 

 being the true T. senna. 



Terias lisa, Boisd. 



In Zeller's collection were examples labelled as this species 

 from Texas. I believe them to represent a distinct species, 

 the males differing from typical T. lisa in the broader external 

 border of all the wings, that of the primaries with its inner 

 edge very oblique from costa to third median branch, thence 

 transverse and trisinuate to inner margin ; the female chiefly 

 differs in its clear sulphur-yellow colour. I am not aware 

 that this species has been named; but so many butterflies 

 have recently been described in North America that I think 

 it better to leave it to students of that fauna than to run the 

 risk of making a synonym. 



Terias brigitta, Cramer. 



This is the southern representative of T. candace ; the flesh- 

 tinted under surface of secondaries and apex of primaries 

 readily distinguish it. 



Terias Tiespera^ sp. n. 



(J. Allied to T. sinta from Moreton Bay and to the T. 

 smilax* group. Wings above gamboge-yellow; primaries 

 slightly pink at the base and sparsely irrorated with black 

 scales ; costal margin narrowly black, slightly increasing in 

 width to beyond the cell, when it abruptly widens into a 

 broad apical border, the inner edge of which is oblique and 

 unbroken to the lower radial vein, whence it is quadrisinuate 

 and tapers to the extremity of the first median branch ; a 

 minute blackish dot at extremity of submedian vein : secon- 

 daries with marginal black dots at the extremities of the veins ; 

 fringe pink : body as usual. Primaries below brighter yellow ; 



* It is a curious thing that Donovan should have included this Cen- 

 tral-American insect in his ' Insects of New Holland ; ' I can only suppose 

 that the specimen was labelled West Indies, that he misread it East 

 Indies^ and believed it to be from the Moluccas. 



