of the GeniirS Teraculiis, Swains, 395 



Mr. ^larsliall's supposition that T. j>uniceus would prove 

 to be tlio dry-season t'orni of T. heUera is thus shown to 

 be incorrect ; personally I never accepted it as even a pro- 

 bability, for it is rare to find so great a difference in the 

 character of the aj)ical patcli in this group of Teracolas. 



18. Teracolus Lorti. 

 Teracolus Lorti, E. M. Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 527. 



This very distinct little species, of which the Museum at 

 present possesses two males only, aj)pear3 to be confined to 

 Somaliland and Gallaland, the dry-season form only being 

 known. 



In T. Lorti the magenta apical patch reaches the greatest 

 development, extending along the costal nervure to a point 

 opposite to the upper extremity of the discoidal cell. This 

 patch is not of the same colour as in the other species of the 

 group, being duller and more lilacine in tint. The idea of 

 this pretty little species being a variety of either T.hetcera ox 

 T. puniceus is quite out of the question. 



19. Teracolus regina. 



Anthocharis regina, Triraen, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, vol. i. p. 520 



(1863). 

 Teracolus regina, Trimen, South Afr. Butt. iii. pi. xi. fig. 3 (1889). 

 Callosune anax, Grose Smith, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol iii. 



p. 125 (1889) ; Rhop. Exot. i., Call. pi. i. figs. 5-8 (1889). 

 Teracolus eliza, E. M. Sharpe, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. v. 



p. 441 ; Waterhouse, Aid Ident. Ins. pi. clxxxix. (1890). 



The most northerly examples of this species were those 

 obtained in the neighbourhood of the Albert Nyanza by the 

 late Emm Pasha; thence it extends southwards along the 

 eastern side of Africa through Nyasaland and the Zambesi 

 district to the Transvaal *, and to the west it passes through 

 the Bechuana country to Namaqualand and Damaraland. 

 T. anax { = eliza) is the wet-season form. 



20. Teracolus imperator. 



Teracolus imperator, Butler, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 132. 

 Anthocharis ione, Reiche (not Godart), Ferret and Galinier, Voy. 

 Abyss, pi. XXX. figs. 1, 2, 5-7 (1849). 



The range of this species appears to be from Wasin Island 

 through Zanzibar south-westwards, just touching Nyasaland, 



* One of Hewitson's examples is even labelled as from Kaffirland, but 

 this may be an error. 



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