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AntJiopsijche Jieuglhn. Felder. IVien." ent, Monats. iii. p. 272 

 (1859). 



AntliopsijcJie stt/ffia, Felder, Keis. d. Nov., Lep. p. 188 (1865). 



Teracolus Interriiptus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 724 (1871). 



Teracolus suhfumosus, Butler, ibid. p. 139, pi. vi. fig. 3 (1876). 



Teracolus jiamini a, Butler, ibid. p. 140 (1876). 



Teracolus hjcoris, Butler, ibid. p. 140, pi. vi. fig. 1 (1876). 



'Teracolus hjaus, Butler, ibid. p. 141, pi. vi. fig. 2 (1876). 



Teracolus friga, Butler, ibid. p. 142 (1876). 



Teracolus I lalathinvs, Butler, ibid. p. 142 (1876) 



Teracolus f/elasinus, Butler, ibid. p. 143 (1876). 



Teracolus lucullus, Butler, ibid. p. 143, pi. vi. fig. 4 (1876). 



Teracolus gh/cera, Butler, ibid. p. 144 (1876). 



Callosune pseudetrida, Westwood, App. Oates' Mat. Ld. ed. i. 

 p. 340 (1881). 



Callosune ramaquehana, Westwood, App. Oates' Mat. Ld. p. 341, 

 pi. E. figs. 5 & 6 (1881). 



Teracolus minans, Butler, Ent. Mo. Mag. xviii. p. 229 (1882). 



Teracolus conigcr, Butler, ibid, xviii. p. 229 (1882). 



Teracolus xanthus, Swinhoe, S (nee 9 ), Proc. Zool. Soe. p. 440, 

 pi. xxxix. fig. 10 (1884). 



Teracolus odysseus, Swinhoe, 2 {nee S ), ibid. p. 441 (1884). 



Teracolus saxeus, Swinhoe, ibid. p. 441, pi. xl. figs. 1 & 2 (1884). 



Teracolus jamesi, Butler, ibid. p. 771 (1885). 



Teracolus comptus, Butler, ibid. p. 94 (1888). 



Teracolus hifaseiatus, E. M. Sharpe, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6) v. 

 p. 336 (1890). 



Teracolus emini, Butler, ibid. (6) vii. p. 47 (1891). 



This widespread little species is certainly the most variable of 

 all the Teracoli, as is well shown by the above lengthy list ot 

 synonyms. In May 1893 I found the dry-season form of this 

 species very plentiful in the Northern Transvaal, and they there 

 exhibited much greater variation than in either Natal or Mashuna- 

 land, more especially the females, which presented a wonderful 

 variety of coloration. Most of these forms have been raised to 

 specific rank by Mr. Butler, but he has based his species chiefiy on 

 the relati\ e development of the variable seasonal black mai-kings in 

 the male. We thus get a graduated series from the lightly-marked 

 T. suhfumosus, through T. lycoris, Jlaminia, friga, lycpvs, rama- 

 quehana, to galatJiinus, in which the upperside markings approach 

 to those of the wet-season form of the species, represented by 

 T. pldegetonia (Boisd.). All these forms exhibit the tinted and irro- 

 rated underside colouring, which in South Africa, at all events, is 

 always characteristic of the dry-season form. I have, however, 

 seen very few specimens of this type from Central Africa, and 

 these appear to have been captured in the dry belt of country 

 referred to by Mr. Scott Elliot in his interesting book on that region. 

 It is therefore possible that in the more humid and forest-clad 

 areas the dry-season form may be represented by T. antigone 

 (Boisd.), which differs from South-African specimens in having 



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