1876.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE GENUS TERACOLUS. 147 



marginal dots of secondaries still smaller : primaries below with the 

 apical area sandy reticulated with grey, with pale rosy borders, and 

 an oblique inner transverse grey line composed of three grey spots : 

 secondaries rosy whitish reticulated with grey ; a black dot at end 

 of cell ; the base of costa orange. Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 

 $. White above, the base greyish; primaries with the costa 

 greyish, black towards apex; apical area orange; outer border 

 rather broadly black, deeply sinuated internally, extending to first 

 median nervule ; a subapical obhque irregular black streak, united 

 to the outer border by black lines on the nervures (thus producing 

 five subapical spots, the second minute) ; a black dot at end of ce\f; 

 a grey internal streak terminating in a blackish spot : secondaries 

 with the abdominal area greyish ; six decreasing greyish-brown 

 marginal spots, very large at apex ; a dusky subcostal spot towards 

 apex ; a dusky oblique irregular marking on the disk and touching 

 the third and fourth marginal spots. Primaries below white, the base 

 pale yellowish ; a black dot at end of cell ; a grey internal line, ter- 

 mmating in a large black spot ; apical area sandy, speckled with 

 brown, becoming orange internally, and crossed by three grey spots : 

 secondaries whity-brown, reticulated with brown ; a black dot at end 

 of cell ; costa tinted with orange at base. Expanse of wino-s 1 inch 

 5 lines. ° 



Between Natal and Delagoa Bay (E. C. Buxton). Type, B.M. 

 68. Teracolus hippocrene, n, sp. 



6 . Also like T. ithonus above, but the marginal spots of secon- 

 daries larger and the base more heavily blackened : primaiies below 

 white, the apical area lemon-yellow, becoming paler externally ; a 

 black dot at end of cell : secondaries creamy white ; the veins 

 brownish ; abdominal half of the wings speckled with brown ; base 

 of costa bright golden orange ; a black-aud-orange dot at end of cell. 

 Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 



$ . White, the apical area stramineous, with the black and grey 

 markings as in T. ithonus, excepting that the internal grey streak is 

 narrower : secondaries with basal and abdominal areas greyish ; a 

 marginal series of grey spots ; an ill-defined W-shaped marking 'on 

 the disk, cut by the third median branch. Wings below white : pri- 

 maries with a black dot at end of cell ; apex creamy yellowish 

 speckled with brown, stramineous externally, and crossed obliquely 

 by four brown spots: secondaries creamy, speckled with brown 

 hatchings, which congregate as spots on the costa near apex and upon 

 the centre of the disk ; a black dot at end of cell. Expanse of wines 

 1 inch 7 lines. * 



Between Natal and Delagoa Bay {E. C. Buxton). Type, B.M. 



69. Teracolus ignifer, n. sp. 



6 • Wings above white, the base blackish : primaries with the 

 apical half of costa and the outer margin to first median branch 

 black, the apical fork of the subcostal, external two fifths of the 

 radials, half the third median, external third of the second median, 



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