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77. Teracolus tripunctatus. 



c? . Teracolus tripuncta, Butler, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 221, pi. xvii. fig. 9. 

 $ . Teracolus tripunctatus, Butler, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 149, pi. xv. fig. 4. 

 Teracolus surya, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Hi. p. 45 (1885). 



Probably occurs over the greater part of South India and 

 at Trincomali in Ceylon. It is readily separable, both in its 

 wet- and dry-season forms, from T. futvia by the much 

 blacker apical patch on the primaries enclosing three isolated 

 spots of the ground-colour, instead of being divided by a belt 

 of spots ; the marginal spotting of the secondaries is also 

 much heavier than in T. falvia and the under surface of the 

 dry-season form yellower and less rosy. We have fifteen 

 examples in the Museum from Bombay and the Nilgiris on 

 the west and from Ganjam and Ceylon on the east. 



78. Teracolus celimene. 



Anthocliaris celimme, Lucas, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. p. 426 (1852). 

 Anthocharis amina, Hewitson, Exot. Butt, iii., Anth. pi. i. tigs. 1-3 

 (1866). 



Appears to range from Abyssinia to Swaziland, whence 

 we have a dry-season male obtained by Mr. Buxton. 



I cannot believe that Anthopsyche pholoe of Wallengren is 

 identical with T. celimene ; the description reads like that of 

 a female, but does not agree with the female in the Hewitson 

 collection. We have the typical wet-season form of male 

 T. celimene from Lake Nyasa (G. & S. coll.) ; therefore 

 Mr. Marshall's suggestion that the western T. pholoe is the 

 dry-season form of the eastern T. celimene (of which we 

 already have both wet and dry forms) seems far-fetched. 



79. Teracolus pholoe. 



Anthopsyche pholoe, Wallengren, Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 35 (1860). 

 Anthocharis phanon, Trimeii, Trans. Ent. Soc. iii. 1, p. 522 (1863). 



The range of this species, so far as at present known, is 

 from Damaraland eastward to Lake N garni. It seems 

 probable that Wallengren described the female and Trimen 

 the male; the two series of red spots upon which my friend 

 relies as disproving the female character of T. pholoe are the 

 chief evidence in its favour, for, as Trimen himself shows, 

 the males of this group of Teracolus have the apical patch 

 purplish lake, violet-y tossed and intersected by a black streak, 

 not, as Wallengren says, black, with violet-glossed red spots in 

 two rows. The female of T. prceclarus gives an indication of 

 such a character, but has the marginal spots also red instead 

 of yellow. 



