380 MESSES. DIXET, BUKR, AKD PICKAEU-CAMBEIDGE ON [May 3, 



liYCJE'STSJE. 



TAErcTJS THEOPHEASTtrs Fabr. (No. 33.) 



1 d . This species has a wide range throughout the Indian 

 and Ethiopian regions and the Mediterranean subregion of the 

 PalEearctic. It does not occur in Pi'of. Balfour's collection. 



ZizEBA LTSiMOK Hiibn. (Nos. 34—37.) 



Lyccma lysimon, Trimen, South Afr. Butt. vol. ii. 1887, p. 45. 



Four specimens ; apparently 3 S and 1 2 • This species also 

 was not obtained by Prof. Balfour. 



" Pound commonly everywhere, both hills and plains, but 

 chiefly the former. Flight always close to the ground." — 

 E. N. B. 



A Lycsenid collected by Eiebeck, who visited Socotra soon after 

 Prof. Balfour, was not determined '. 



PiEEiisr^. 



BeLENOIS AjrOMALA Butl. (No. 38.) 



Synchloe anomnla Butl. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 178, pi. xviii. 

 fig. 3. 



One 2 . The specimen is broken, but less worn than the type, 

 which is also a female. The large black spot at the end of the cell 

 in the fore wiug, subquadrale in the type, is here rather sub- 

 triangular, with tlie base directed inwards, and showing on both 

 surfaces a slight proximal indentation. On the under surface the 

 outer border of the fore wings is greyish shot with j)ink, not 

 semitransparent as in the type. 



Mr. Butler {loc. cit.) assigns this form to the genus SyncMoe, 

 but adds that " the possession of a male specimen would satisfac- 

 torily decide whether or not it is an unusually aberrant Belenois." 

 The male is still unknown ; the venation, however, is unmistakably 

 that of Belenois, as the 1st subcostal branch in the fore wing 

 is concurrent with the costal (cf. B. mesentina, B. creona, B. gidica, 

 &c.), while the upper discocellular is straight and forms an open 

 angle with the lower. There can be little doubt that this interest- 

 ing species comes nearest to B. ahyssinica Luc, the dry -season 

 form ^ of B. gidica from the African mainland. 



" Eare ; only met with in the Haghier Range, at an altitude of 

 about 2300 ft. In the same place another white butterfly of 

 corresponding size was seen, with circular black spots [perhaps 

 the male]. Both flew fast."— ^. K B. 



Teracolus nitetjs Butl. (Nos. 39-42.) 



Teracolus niveus Butl. loc. cit. p. 177, pi. xviii. fig. 1. 



Teracolus candidus Butl. loc. cit. p. 179, pi. xviii. fig. 2. 



One S , three $ . The male and one female correspond with 



1 Taschenberg, Zeitsclirift fiir Kafurwiss. Ed. Ivi. 1883, p. 182, 

 ■^ See Barker, Traus. Ent. Soc. Lund. 1895, p. 419. 



£, 



