1896.] fhom ntasa-land. 83t, 



somewhat worn example of the South-African 2\ speciostis, to 

 which it approaclies much more closely than to any other violet- 

 tipped Teracolus : it is the only known species which can bo 

 accurately described as having the apical black border " divided 

 transversely and obliquely by a violet band, very brilliant, rounded 

 externally " : it is moreover, in my opinion, worthy of consideration 

 that Dr. Boisduval, who (in the Pierince especially) was apt to cut 

 species very fine indeed, regarded the southern insect as typical 

 T. ioiie, as there can be little doubt that the Doctor had examined 

 the original type. 



One fact, however, must not be lost sight of: — ^Mr. Trimen 

 includes 1'. jalone in the synonymy of his 'I\ tone and says that he 

 does not consider it to be even a marked variety. Now T. jalone 

 has a conspicuous discocellular spot on the primaries, and its wet- 

 season form has no more ray on the under siu-face than exists in 

 T. speciosus ; only the apical border is conspicuously dusted with 

 white scales, and the violet band is too close to the inner edge of 

 tho coloured apical area to be correctly spoken of as an oblique 

 band crossing the border at apex. Mr. Trimen gives " White 

 Nile " as the locality of my typo of T. jalone, and that certainly 

 was the locality on the specimen. Should not this have suggested 

 to him the possibili^y of T. jalone being the dry-season male of 

 T. plilegyas, rather than a hardly separable variation of T. imperator ? 

 We certainly have one or two specimens which tend to link 

 T. plilegyas and T.julone; and the two male examples taken on 

 March 9th represent the spotted and unspotted types, although 

 neither of them has the pink under surface with transverse ray of 

 tho typical dry-season form T. jalone. 



95. Teracolus uiLDBBnANUTi. 



Callomne hildehrandiii, Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. p. 44, pi. 23 

 (1884-88). 



iS , Mrali, west coast of Lake Nyaea, Sept. 22nd, 189.5. 



A dry-season form of this species, which cannot easily be 

 confounded with any form of 1\ annce, but must si and between 

 the latter and T. eupompe. 



The dry-seasoti form differs from the (typical) wet-season form 

 in its superior size, the scarlet instead of orange colouring and 

 greater width of the apical patch on the primaries, the greyer basal 

 area and the pinky yellowish apical area of primaries and ground- 

 colour of secondaries on the under surface ; the black terminations 

 to the nervures are also almost obliterated : it comes nearest to 

 T. annm, var. xvallenyreni, but the marginal spots are too small, tho 

 colouring below too yellow, and the scarlet above too pronounced. 



90. Tbbacolus aouinb, var. gavisa. 



AntJiopsycJie gavisa, AVallengren, Kongl. Svensk. Vetensk.-Akad. 

 Haudl. 1857, Lep. Ehop. Caffr. p. 13. 



2, Mpimbi, Upper Shiri Eiver, March 24lh, 1896. "Pale 

 yellow oblong ova " (ii. G.). 



