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Pyrameis CARDUI. 



Papilio cardui, Liniiteus, Fauna Suecica, p. 2/6, n. 1054 (1761). 



A fragment of this cosmopolitan species. 



Acr.«a neobule. (Plate XVIII. fig. 5.) 



AcrcBa neobule, Doubleday & Hewitson, Gran. Diurn. Lap. pi. 19. 

 fig. 3 (1848). 



(No. 746.) 



One female of this species was caught ; it differs from specimens 

 which I have examined from the Congo and Abyssinia in the greater 

 size of all the black spots on its wings, and in having the base of 

 the secondaries black spotted with red, owing to the confluence of 

 the black markings. These differences, however, may be due to 

 simple variation; and therefore it would not) e safe, with only one 

 specimen, to regard them as specific characters. 



Hypanis CORA. (Plate XVIII. fig. 4.) 



Hypanis cora, Feisthamel, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1850, p. 249. 



(No. 726.) 



A pair of this species, only differing from South-African specimens 

 in the slightly wider red- brown belts on the under surface of the 

 secondaries and the consequently narrower bands of white spots. It 

 would be impossible to decide from a single pair whether these 

 apparently trivial distinctions are constant and confined to the island 

 whence the specimens were obtained. 



Papiltonid^. 

 Teracolus niveus, sp. n. (Plate XVIII. fig. 1 .) 



(2 No. 721.) 



(S . Nearest to T. evagore, demagore, and liagore, but differing 

 from all in the considerably smaller extent of the orange apical 

 patch on the primaries. Wings above snow-white; primaries above 

 with a narrow triangular orange apical patch from costa to third 

 median branch, bounded externally by five hastate black spots and 

 in front by an abbreviated black costal line : body black, thorax 

 clothed with silvery hairs, abdomen cream-coloured at the sides. 

 Under surface white, each wing with a small black dot at the end 

 of the cell, primaries indistinctly showing the orange of the upper 

 surface through their texture ; secondaries with a greyish costal spot, 

 and one or two dots of the same colour on the disk beyond the cell, 

 basi-abdomiual area slightly speckled with black. Expanse of wings 

 1 inch 5 lines. 



$ . Snow-white, base speckled with blackish : primaries above with 

 a dot at the end of the cell, four spots in an oblique series, more 

 than halfway between the cell and apex, and four or five squamosa 

 marginal spots between the apex and the third median branch, black ; 

 secondaries with four decreasing marginal black spots between the 

 apex and the second median branch : body blackish, clothed with 



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