576 db. a. g. butler os lepidoptera [June 19, 



fringe soft rose-colour, but towards external angle the fringe is 

 tipped with white : a large Bubapical patch of deep orange-salmon, 

 blending with the rose-colour at apex : secondaries rose-colour ; a 

 white diffused subapical nebula ; the surface, especially towards 

 the base, spar<rly irrorated and striated with blackish ; a black- 

 dotted orange-salmon spot at end of cell and an imperfect 

 angulated band, as in T. (heogone, of brown : body below white. 

 Expanse of wings 40 millim. 



2 . Rather smaller than the male : in pattern nearly resembling 

 T. procne; but the orange subapical band coloured as in the male, 

 and the base of both wings much more widely and densely dusted 

 with blackish ; the fringe of primaries rosy as in the male : below 

 as in the male, but slightly deeper in colour, especially on the 

 secondaries, where the interrupted band is gravel-red. Expanse 

 of wings 36 millim. 



One slightly damaged pair, at Thagana, in woods beside 

 Ukikuya. 



In the fiery colouring of the under surface this species is quite 

 remarkable. A male variety also occurs which above more nearly 

 approaches T. omphale, and below has the apical border of 

 primaries and ground-colour of secondaries creamy whitish, with 

 the band of secondaries brick-red. 



97. Teracolus zera. 



d 2 • Anthocliaris zera, Lucas, Eevue et Mag. de Zool. iv. p. 423 

 (1852). 



c? , Guaso Laschau ; 5 > Guaso Xacrotia ; 3 , Ndoro, steppes at 

 base of Kenya, 7000 feet. 



The description by M. Lucas probably confounds several 

 different types (species ?) ; the only safe guide in the description 

 seems to be the orange tint which he mentions as pervading the 

 under surface of the secondaries in the male ; he, however, fails to 

 note that on the under surface the veins are dusky ; in the 

 examples above recorded they are black towards anal angle and 

 on the abdominal fold. The absence of the small orange spot 

 attached to the black discocellular dot is not likely to be a constant 

 character. 



98. Teracolus helle. 



Teracolus Jielle, Butler, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 149. n. 75. 



Gopo lal Mavari, Laitsipia ; Guaso Narok ; Guaso Laschau ; 

 Guaso INacrotia ; steppes N.W. of Longari ; Xdoro, steppes at 

 base of Kenya, 7000 feet ; Karati, Konu, Ukikuya, Tana, in dense 

 forest ; sandy steppes on the south bank of the Kiroruma. 



99. Teracolus subvexosus. 



Teracolus suhveaosus, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, 

 vol. xii. p. 105. n. 3 (3883). 



3 $ , Miviruni, Elmeteila Basin, Baringo Valley, Mjaki ; Gopo 



