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south-africajs^ butterflies. 
labours in this and other most difficult genera merit the thanks of all 
lepidopterists. 
T. Batleri would appear to be a scarce species in South Africa, as the only 
examples that have come under my notice are a few captured by myself on the 
coast of Natal in February and March 1867.^ There was, however, nothing in 
the habits of the butterfly to distinguish it from its congeners, and it is quite 
possible that it may be passed over among the rest in the localities they all 
frequent together. 
Localities of Terias Butleri. 
1. South Africa. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Victoria County. 
245. (6.) Terias Desjardinsii, Boisduval. 
^ Xanihidia Desjardinsii, Boisd., Faune Ent. Madag., &c,, p. 22, pi. 2, 
f. 6 (1833). 
$ Terias Desjardinsii, Boisd., Sp Gen. Lep., i. p. 671, n. 30 (1836). 
^ Terias floricol a, Wallengr., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1857 ; Lep. Rhop. 
Cafir., p. 19. 
^ Terias Desjardinsii, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 78, n. 51 (1862), 
9 ,, „ Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, p. 476, n. 2. 
§ Terias aliena, Butler (^), Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1880, p. 337, n. 20. 
^ 9 Eurema Desjardinsii, Moschler, Verb. Zool.-Bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 
1883, p 281. 
Plate 10, fig. 2 {$). 
Exp al, {$) I in. 5L-8 lin. ; (?) I in. 6-8^ lin. 
J Ganiboge-yelloiu ; fore-wing luith a narrow or very narrow Mack 
horder ; liind-iving hhintly angidated at extremity of second median ner- 
vide, and ivith an extremely narroiu hlach horder, occasionally broken into 
nervular spots. Fore-iuing : on costa not far from base commences a 
thin black edging, gradually widening beyond middle to a border of 
variable width apically, which continues more narrowly along hind- 
margin to posterior angle, where it again slightly widens ; inner edge 
of border irregularly and bluntly dentate superiorly, but emitting 
regular denticulations on median nervules and submedian nervure. 
Hind-vjing : border little more than a slender edging', rather strongly 
dentated on nervules inwardly, diminishing to a point at extremity of 
first median nervule or of submedian nervure ; rarely this border is 
reduced to nervular spots of moderate or even small size ; inner-mar- 
ginal border conspicuously paler, quite sulphur-yellow. Cilia of fore- 
wing greyish-brown mixed with rufous and at posterior angle with 
yellow, — of hind-wing, yellow mixed with rufous. Under side. — 
Sulphur-yellow, loith fale-ferrnginous markings. Fore-iuing : apical 
border rather widely tinged with pale-ferruginous, continued narrowly 
1 A? specimen occurs in a collection made by Mr. A. W. Eriksson during 1884-85, in 
the country between the Transvaal and Gubulewayo, Matabeleland. 
