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cellular mark indistinctly geminate, larger ; subapical patch more or 
less reproducing internal outline of upper side of black border as far as 
third median nervule, but in $ emitting downward from its outer side 
a narrow somewhat incurved projection as far as inter-nervular fold 
between third and second median nervules. Hind-iving : terminal 
disco- cellular mark much enlarged, not geminate, sub-reniform ; discal 
transverse streak very distinct, and usually (more particularly in 
outwardly suffused in its middle portion between first subcostal and 
third median nervules ; hind-marginal nervular spots not lengthened 
laterally as on upper side, and only a little larger than in Floricola. 
I have reluctantly been compelled to re-name this Terias^ because, though 
evidently the same as Senegalensis, Geyer, it is not the form to which the 
name of Senegalends was given by Boisduval in 1836 {Sp. Gen. Lep.^ i. p. 
672). The latter author states expressly that the under side of his species was 
so faint in its markings as at first to appear to have none, whereas the Terias 
now under notice, of which Geyer figures the $ , is remarkable for the great 
development of the under-side pattern, especially in the $ . Boisduval's insect 
is evidently very close to Hecahe, L., and perhaps not separable from it. 
In the above description 2\ JEtMopica is sufficiently distinguished from 
T. flo7'icola, Boisd., but it comes even nearer to the Indian and Australian T. 
Sari, Horsfield (from which the Cingalese T. simulata and T. unifurmis of 
Moore ^ cannot, I think, be separated). The only obvious distinctions of 
u^thiopica are on the upper side the very slight inward inferior prominence 
of the fore-wing border (which in Sari is very pronounced), and the hind- 
marginal marking of the hind-wing being restricted to small separate spots 
(instead of, as in Sari, a narrow continuous blackish border). This latter 
feature is, however, inclined to be unstable, for in one JEthiopica the thin, 
laterally elongated spots almost unite. A hind-wing border of variable width 
is a character of T. Hecahe, and thus Sari is nearer to the latter than jEtJiio- 
pica is. 
I have seen but few examples of this Terias from South Africa. A $ 
was sent by Colonel Bowker from Kaifraria Proper in 1866, and another 
labelled "Natal" was received at the South- African Museum in a collection 
acquired about the same date. In 1867 Colonel Tower gave me a $ captured 
at St. Lucia Bay, and the Museum received a series of the same sex taken in 
Natal by the late Mr. M. J. M'Ken. I did not meet with the insect during my 
collecting excursions in Natal. 
Localities of Terias uEthiopica. 
1. South Africa. 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo River (/. H. Bowker) 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts.— D'Urban {M. J. M'Ken). 
F. Zululand. — St. Lucia Bay {Colonel H. Tower). 
II. Other African Regions. 
B. North Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — " Senegal." — Geyer. 
^ Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 119, pi, 45, flf. 2, 2a, 2b ; and p. 120, pi. 46, ff. 2, 2a, 2b (18S1). 
2 Boisduval [op. cit. p. 670) gives Smn as a ? variety of Hecabe, but he has not been 
followed by Wallace (1867), Butler (1871), or Kirby (1S71). 
