1894.] EEOM BRITISH BAST ABBICA. 573 



oval white marginal spot, and below this again the black is 

 externally undulating, leaving three pure white indentations 

 confluent with the white fringe. On the secondaries the black 

 costal border, instead of extending almost to the apex, is cut 

 across transversely and therefore terminates much more abruptly. 

 I have no doubt that both this and T. opalescms constitute 

 constant local races, far more worthy of specific rank than many 

 of the species which my excellent, but, as I think, inconsistent, 

 friend has considered distinct 1 . 



The markings in Dr. Gregory's example are less strongly 

 defined than in Felder's figure : but there caunot be a question as 

 to the identity of the species ; at the same time, I should doubt 

 whether the two males associated in the Hewitson collection under 

 the name of T. agoye are actually one species. 



87. Tebacolus puniceus. (Plate XXXVI. figs. 5, 6.) 



Teracolus jmniceus, Butler, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 72. n. 92. 



3 , without label of exact locality ; probably Sabaki Valley. 

 The female we received from the Victoria Nyanza. 



88. Tebacolus eoliaceus, sp. n. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 7.) 



$ . Above chalky white, the basal third irrorated with fine grey 

 scales : primaries with a conspicuous spot at the end of the cell ; 

 the apical two-thirds of costa and the apical third of wing to inner 

 margin, as well as a large almost wedge-shaped spot only separated 

 from the latter by a large round white spot near external angle, 

 black, slightly suffused with brown near outer margin ; a series of 

 six sordid white spots in an arched series between costa and the 

 above-mentioned large white spot, the first small, the second 

 large and pyriform, the remainder regularly decreasing in size, 

 the second, third, and fourth spots flecked with magenta ; sub- 

 median vein, base of inner margin, and subcostal vein of second- 

 aries tinted with sulphur : secondaries with a very broad external 

 black border, occupying about one-fourth of the wing, its inner 

 edge strongly dentated on the veins, and an oblique squamose 

 subapical black streak from costa to centre of third median branch : 

 body normal. Primaries below white, the base primrose-yellow, 

 followed in the cell by a transverse greyish nebula ; black spot at 

 end of cell as above ; costa and a broad apical border, tapering to 

 first median branch, buff-yellowish, the latter transversely striated 

 with grey and bounded internally by whitish spots, of which the 

 first three are defined by an inner diffused bordering of argillaceous 

 brown shading into grey -brown, and the remainder hy a series of 

 more or less acutely angulated black spots curving inwards to 

 submedian area, the upper ones also placed on a diffused grey- 

 brown area answering to the inner edge of the black area of the 

 upper surface : secondaries whitish, tinted with pearl-grey and 



1 It has always been a puzzle to me that Lepidopterists, who in one genus 

 allow unlimited variability and extraordinary ranges to the species, in a nearly- 

 allied genus restrict both in an equally remarkable degree. 



