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SOUTH- AFRICAX BUTTERFLIES. 
the The majority of the South- African <J s have the border about 
as narrow as in the Malagasy type figured by Boisduval ; but, on the 
other hand, there are some examples in which it is much more reduced, 
the extreme of narrowness being reached in a small ^ from the Bashee 
River, and another from Lydenburg in the Transvaal. The $ s vary 
similarly as far as the fore-wing border is concerned, but here the 
extreme of reduction breaks up the hind-marginal portion of the border 
into very nearly separated spots. 
The 9 of this Terias was sent to the South-African Museum by Colonel 
Bowker from Butterworth, Kaffraria Proper, as long ago as 1861, with the note 
that it frequented forest-clad country, while its allies {T. Zoe and Brigitta) 
were found quite in the open. It was not until some years later that ^ s and 
further $ s were received from the same territory ; and in 1 865 I met with both 
sexes when landing for a day at D'Urban, Natal, towards the end of June. In 
1867 I took the butterfly sparingly in the same locality during February and 
March, and also found it near Maritzburg in April. It was taken in Zululand 
during the same year by the late Colonel Tower. The best locality for it near 
D'Urban was the Botanic Garden, whence the late Mr. M'Ken also sent a good 
many specimens. On the wing it can be recognised at once by the narrowness 
of its black bordering. 
Localities of Terias Desjardinsii. 
I. South Africa. 
I). Kaffraria Proper. — Butterworth and Bashee River (/. H. Bowker). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Avoca (/. H. Bowker). 
h. Upper Districts. — Maritzburg. 
F. Zululand. — St. Lucia Bay (the late Colonel H. Tower). 
Iv. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District (71 Ayres). Lydenburg (J.. F. 
Ortlepp). 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
hh. Eastern Islands. — Madagascar {E. L. Layard). 
246. (7.) Terias regularis, Butler. 
9 Terias Desjardinsii?^ , Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 79 (1862). 
(j „ regularis, Butl., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th Ser., vol. xviii. 
p. 486 (1876). 
Allied to T. Desjardinsii, Boisd. 
Uxp., ($) I in. 6-8 lin. ; $ i in. 6-8^ lin. 
J Gamboge-yellow ; fore-wing rather broadly bordered with black, 
hind-iving about half as broadly bordered. Fore-wing : base narrowly 
blackish ; costal nervure as far as first subcostal nervule, and a space 
above and below it, irrorated with black atoms ; black border almost as 
broad along costa as in T. Zoe, not so wide apically, but broader hind- 
marginally, and specially broader at posterior angle, — its inner edge 
rather more irregular superiorly and hollowed about its middle. Hind- 
