142 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE GENUS TERACOLUS. [Jan. 18, 



48. Teracolus friga, n. sp. (Plate VI. fig. 5.) 



$ , $ • White above, the female slightly tinted with sulphur- 

 yellow towards the base ; base blackish grey ; primaries with the 

 apex orange ; costa of the male broadly black in the centre ; outer 

 margin black, dentate-hastate, the apices of the nervures black, male 

 with the usual black spot on the orange, the female with the angu- 

 lated black streak ; a black internal spot indicating the termination 

 of a greyish streak (dimly visible in the female only) ; secondaries 

 with a marginal series of conical black spots united in the female ; an 

 ill-defined W-sbaped marking touching the third marginal spot : 

 primaries below white ; a black dot at end of cell ; apex in the male 

 broadly dull reddish, becoming greyish externally and crossed by a 

 scarcely visible angulated grey streak ; costa and apex of the female 

 ochreous, irrorated with grey ; a subapical angulated brown streak ; 

 base and subcostal area sulphur-yellow ; secondaries of the male 

 sordid white, irrorated with blackish ; the costa deep orange ; two 

 subapical ochreous spots ; an orange-bordered black dot at end of 

 cell ; secondaries of the female sandy, becoming whitish towards the 

 centre, densely irrorated with purplish brown ; two subapical brown 

 spots ; costa orange ; a black-and-orange dot at end of cell. Expanse 

 of wings <S 1 inch 5 lines, $ 1 inch 4 lines. 



N.E. of Natal (E. C. Buxton). Type, B.M. 



49. Teracolus galathinus, n. sp. 



cJ . Above like T. interrvptus, excepting that there is a submar- 

 ginal zigzag grey streak from the radial to the internal nervure of 

 secondaries : primaries below white ; a black discocellular point ; 

 apical area reddish orange, with a subapical diffused yellow spot ; 

 fringe rosy ; secondaries rosy, irrorated with brown ; a subapical 

 brown spot, and a discal brown streak across the median branches ; 

 costa deep orange ; a black-and-orange dot at end of cell. Expanse 

 of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 



5 . White, with the subapical and subbasal areas yellow, base grey ; 

 primaries with the costa and fringe rosy ; a black discocellular spot ; 

 a broad blackish internal streak terminating in a black spot ; apex 

 broadly black, sometimes crossed by a curved series of cuneiform 

 yellow spots ; secondaries with a marginal series of conical black 

 spots ; an irregular discal black streak ; apex yellowish : primaries 

 below white, the basal and costal areas sulphur-yellow : a black 

 point at end of cell ; apical area clay-coloured, reddish externally, 

 and bounded within by a brown angulated streak bordered with dull 

 reddish orange ; secondaries as in the male, but darker. Expanse of 

 wings 1 inch 4 lines. 



N.E. of Natal (1 rf, 6 $ , E. C. Buxton). Type, B.M. 



50. Teracolus interruptus. 



S , $ Teracolus interrupting, Butler, P. Z. S. p. 724 (18/1) ; Lep. 

 Exot. p. 115, pi. xliii. figs. 1, 2 (1872).^ 



6 $, Loanda (coll. It. Mehhla) ; S , Angola (E. C. Buxton). 



B.M. 



