DE. A. G. BUTLEE ON LEPIDOPTEEA [Nov. 17, 



97. TEEACOLUS SIPYLUS. 



Teracolus sipylus, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 444, pi. xl. fig. 11. 



d , Kondowi, 4000 feeb alt., Nyika, Feb. 21st, 1896. 



This is supposed to be an extreme wet-season form of T. evening : 

 Mr. Trimen's note in his * South African Butterflies,' vol. iii. 

 p. 128, seems somewhat contradictory. Of T. sipylus he says : 

 " The male is inseparable from the larger darker specimens of male 

 evenina . . . . , though it is somewhat more heavily marked." I 

 consider T. sipylus to be a distinct representative form. 



98. TERACOLUS PEOCNE. 



Anthopsyche procne, Wallengren, Kongl. Svensk. Vetensk.-Akad. 

 Hancll. 1857, Lep. Ehop. Caffr. p. 12. 



Mpata, west of Lake Nyasa, August 2nd, 1895. 



Probably only a varietal form of T. iheogene ; but both are dry- 

 season forms, of which it is extremely likely that TT. ocale, 

 microcode, angolensis, and areihusa are more or less localized wet- 

 season forms. 



99. TEEACOLUS CINCTUS. 



Teracolus cinctus, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xii. 

 p. 105 (1883). 



Dry-season form tf $ , Loangwa Eiver, Senga, Sept. 5th and 

 13th," 1895. 



Differs from the typical wet-season form in the reduction of the 

 internal black streak on the primaries, which is represented by a 

 greyish smear ending in a darker spot, and in the rosy colouring 

 of the secondaries on the under surface. 



100. TEEACOLUS SUBFUMOSUS. 



Teracolus subfumosus, Butler, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 139, pi. vi. fig. 3. 



d , Loangwa Eiver, Senga, Sept. 12th, 1895. 



This is doubtless a wet-season form of some other named 

 Teracolus and allied to T. eione : it is not at all likely to be a form 

 of the West-African T. antigone, unless the latter can be linked by 

 a perfect series of intergrades to T. eione, which at present I am 

 not prepared to admit to be a fact. If T. antigone and T. eione are 

 distinct species (as claimed in the ' South African Butterflies '), the 

 forms from Western Africa must be kept separate from those of 

 the South. T. phlegetonia is allied to T. eione, but does not closely 

 agree with it in pattern, though both represent the extreme wet- 

 season types of the country which they inhabit. In like manner, 

 T. xanihus will probably prove to 'be a wet-season form of 

 T. odysseus, inasmuch as both forms inhabit the White Nile, and 

 are so much alike that their proper females were originally trans- 

 posed ; the differences between them are similar to those which 

 exist between T. eione and T. subfumosus, or between T. plilegetonia 

 and T. antigone. As might be expected of West Coast forms, no 

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