66 MR. R. TRIMBN ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [Jan. 16, 



ample, where the fore wings exhibit it close to hind margin, and 

 the hind wings on costal nervure and basal part of subcostal 

 nervules. 



124. Tebacolus anax (H. G-. Smith). 



c? 2 • Callosune anax, H. G. Smith, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, 

 ser. 6, iii. p. 125 (1889) ; and Rhop. Exot. i. Callosune, i. p. 2, pl.i. 

 figs. 5, 6(d), 7, 8 ($) (1889). 



d . Anthopsyche ione, Walleugr. Sv. Yet.-Akad. Handl. 1857 — 

 Lep. Rhop. Caffr. p. 15. 



3 2 AntJwcJiaris regina, Trim., var. tf and var. 5 , Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond. (3) i. p. 521 (1863). 



d $• Teracolus rerjina, var. A, Trim. S.-Afr. Butt. iii. p. 112 

 (1889). 



S $ . Teracolus eliza, E. M. Sharpe, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 v. p. 441 (1890). 



There are five specimens (all males) of this splendid Teracolus, 

 captured in Mineni Valley from 9th to 27th March. These differ 

 slightly from Mr. H. G-. Smith's figure, above cited, of a Mombasa 

 male, having on the underside less irroration basally, a narrower 

 inner black border to the violet apical patch in the fore wings, and 

 smaller nervular hind-marginal black spots in the hind wings ; the 

 last-named markings are also much reduced on the underside of 

 the hind wings. The black spots of the discal series on the under- 

 side of the hind wings vary a good deal in size and distinctness, 

 one example having them just as in Mr. Smith's fig. 6, two others 

 having all but the first and last larger, another wanting the second 

 spot, and the last wanting both second and third spots ; the ground- 

 colour is also variable, two examples presenting it creamy instead 

 of pure white. 



As usual in the genus Teracolus, it is impossible to define exact 

 limits between T. anax and T. regina. The Manica males here 

 noticed link T. anax to the var. A of regina from Damaraland, and so 

 do two others taken by Mr. A. W. Eriksson, in 1885, in the belt of 

 country between Transvaal and Matabeleland ; while, as I have 

 noted (op. tit. p. 113), another male from the latter tract is inter- 

 mediate between the var. A and typical T. regina}. Of two females 

 taken by Mr. Selous in 1882 on the Upper Limpopo, Transvaal 

 boundary, one is typical T. regina, but the other is referable to var. 

 A ; the latter is on the upperside very close to Mr. Smith's figure 

 (7) of female T. anax, but has both the basal irroration of the fore 

 wings and the hind-marginal large black spots considerably broader 

 — the latter, indeed, are so enlarged as to meet and form a continuous 

 border, while on the underside the corresponding spots are very 

 much smaller than in the figure (8) of T. anax female 2 . Looking to 



1 This male closely agrees with the male of T. cliza, E. M. Sharpe, from near 

 Mombasa, as figured by Waterhouse ('Aid,' pi. 189, 1890). 



2 This female, except for its stronger basal irroration, agrees well with the 

 female of T. cliza, E. M. Sharpe, as shown on the plate of ' Aid ' above cited, 

 fig. 6. 



