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narrow blackish line including the yellow disco-cellular 

 nervule, occasionally almost obsolete ; the broad border of 

 upper-side indicated by a greenish tint, irrorated with black- 

 ish atoms ; in some specimens an indistinct, blackish, oblique 

 stria near apex ; small black dots at extremities of nervules ; 

 inner-marginal portion of wing paler than the rest. Hind- 

 wing : more or less irrorated with blackish atoms ; four or five 

 blackish dots, sometimes yellow-centred, near base; an 

 indistinct, blackish line, like that in fore-wing, at extremity 

 of discoidal cell ; beyond middle two or three faint-blackish, 

 interrupted, transverse streaks, (often scarcely perceptible), 

 the first on costa, only reaching sub-costal nervure; the second, 

 interrupted on median nervules, almost crossing the whole 

 wing ; the third, on median nervules ; black dots on hind- 

 margin as in fore-wing. 



Mr. D'Urban, who has taken this species commonly at King William's 

 Town, sends me the following short description of the ? T. Rahel, captured 

 in copula with the $ , on Windvogelberg. 



"Female somewhat larger than the male. Upper and 

 under-side pale primrose-yellow covered with minute blackish 

 atoms. Black border of the wings not so intense. Otherwise 

 as in the male, with the exception that the black dots, &c., on 

 the under-side are still more faint : the fringe of the wings, 

 also, is paler." 



This description is not sufficiently minute to enable me to determine 

 whether the female specimens in the South African Museum, which I have 

 temporarily referred to T. pulchella, Boisd., are not really females of Terias 

 Rahel; bat, as far as it goes, it is certainly applicable to the specimens in 

 question. 



Natal. Coll. mihi, and Coll. S. A. Mus. 



Port Elizabeth. Graham's Town. King William's Town. 

 Coll. W. S. M. D'Urban. 



Butterworth, Kaffraria (J. H. Bowker). Coll. S. A. Mus. 



Interior of South Africa. Natal. Sierra Leone. Ashanti. 

 Congo. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



Damaraland. Coll. C. J. Andersson. 



50. Terias pulchella. 



Xanthidia pulchella, Boisd., Faune Ent. de Mad., Bomb. 



\et Maur., pi. 2, f. 7. 

 Terias pulchella, Boisd., Sp. Gen. Lep., I, p. 677, n. 39. 



j, ,, E. DoubL, App. List Lep. Brit. Mus., p. 1 1 . 



Expands 1 in. 2 lin. ( $ ) 



$ . Gamboge -yellow; with broad, black borders to the wings. 

 Fore-wing : base strongly powdered with black ; black border 

 commencing at base, continued along costa with little differ- 



