838 db. a. g. butlsn on lepidopteiia. [nov. 17, 



97. Tbeaoolus siptltjs. 



Teracolus sipylus, Svvinhoe, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 444, pi. xl. fig. 11. 



d , Kondowi, 4000 feet alt., Nyika, Feb. 21st, 1896. 



This is supposed to be an extreme wet-season form of T. evenhvi : 

 Mr. Trimen's note in his ' South African Butterllies,' vol. iii. 

 p. 128, seems somewhat contradictory. Of T. sipylus he says : — 

 " The male is inseparable from the larger darker specimens of male 

 evenina . . . ., though it is somewhat more heavily marked." I 

 consider T. sipylus to be a distinct representative form. 



98. Teeacolus peoone. 



Anthopsyche procne, Wallengren, Kougl. Svensk. Vetensk.-Akad. 

 Handl. 1857, Lep. Ehop. Cattr. p. 12. 



Mpata, west of Lake Nyasa, August 2nd, 1895. 



Probably only a varietal form of 'T. theoyene ; but both are dry- 

 season forms, of which it is extremely likely that TT. oeale, 

 microcale, angolensis, and arethusa are more or less localized wet- 

 season forms. 



99. Teeacolus ciNcrus. 



Teracolus cinchis, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xii. 

 p. 105 (1883). 



Dry-season form d $ , Loangwa Eiver, Senga, Sept. 5th and 

 13th,' 1895. 



Differs from the typical wet-season form in the reduction of the 

 internal black streak on the primaries, which is represented by a 

 greyish smear ending in a darlier spot, and in the rosy colouring 

 of the secondaries on the under siu'face. 



100. Teeacolus subfumosus. 



Teracolus suhfumosus, Butlor, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 139, pi. vi. iig. 3. 



(S , Loangwa Eiver, Senga, Sept. 12th, 1895. 



This is doubtless a wet-season form of some other named 

 Teracolus and allied to T. eione : it is not at all likely to be a form 

 of the West-African T. antiyoiie, unless the latter can be linked by 

 a perfect series of intergrades to 2'. eione, which at present I am 

 not prepared to admit to be a fact. If T. aniiyone and T. eione are 

 distinct species (as claimed in the ' South African Butterflies '), the 

 forms from Western Africa must be kept separate from those of 

 the South. T. phleyetonin is allied to 3'. eione, but does not closely 

 agree with it in pattern, though both represent the extreme wet- 

 season types of the country which they inhabit. In like manner, 

 T. xanihus will probably prove to be a wet-season form of 

 T. Odysseus, inasmuch as both forms inhabit the White Nile, and 

 are so much alike that their proper females were originally trans- 

 posed ; the differences between them are similar to those which 

 exist between T. eione and T. suhfumosus, or between T. phleyetonia 

 and T. antiyone. As might be expected of West Coast forms, no 



