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SOUTH- AERTCAis' BUTTERFLIES. 
265. (1.) Teracolus subfasciatus, Swainson. 
^ Teracolus subfasciatus, Swains., Zool. Illustr., 2nd Ser., iii. pi. nc 
(1833). 
^ Antlio charts suhfasciat a, Boisd., Sp. Gen. Lep., i. p. 567, n. 12 (1836). 
S ? Ptychopteryx Boliemani^ Wallengr., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1857 ) 
Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 18. 
Thespia Bohemaimi^ Wallengr., K. Vet.-Akad. Forh., 1858, p. 77. 
$ 2 A^ithocliaris subfasciata, Trim., Rliop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 58, n. 38 
(1862); and ii. p. 331 (1866). 
Ptychopteryx Bohemani, Butl., Lep. Exot., p. 45 (1870). 
^ Teracolus subfasciatus, Stand., Exot. Scliniett., i. pi. 23 (1884). 
Exp al, ($) 2 in. 1-3^ lin. ; ($) 2 in. 1-4^ Im. 
$ Sulphur-yellow with deeper, someivhat ochre-tinged yelloiv apical 
patch. Fore-iuing : a small, elongate, black disco-cellular spot ; costa 
narrowly black-edged from near base, paling and narrowing into a 
dull-fuscous apical border, which, outwardly bordering ochre-tinged 
patch, extends along hind-margin nearly to end of first median nervule ; 
apical patch small, of the ground-colour, but suffused with greyish- 
ochreous, crossed by four fuscous nervnles, — imuardly bordered by a 
broad black bar from costa, ending abruptly on or a little above third 
median nervule, where a few dusky scales (in some specimens) form 
an indistinct line between it and fuscous border. Hiiid-yjing : paler ; 
a fuscous indistinct spot on costa beyond middle. Under side. — 
Gree7iish-iuhite ; hind-wing and apex of fore-wing hatched closely with 
lines of ochrey-grey. Fore-wing : cellular spot wanting ; bar from 
costa faintly showing. Hind-iuing : sometimes a thin, reddish line 
on edge of costa near base ; hatching denser along costa, forming 
a dusky border ; celhdar fold^ from base to hind-margin, inferiorly 
marked by an ochrey-grey stripe. 
$ Much paler, or sometimes nearly luhite ; apiccd patch brighter or 
duller orange. Fore-wing : cellular spot sometimes ill-defined ; fuscous 
border broader, tinged with ferruginous ; costal edging reddish-grey ; 
bar from costa reduced to a narrower fuscous submacular stripe, within 
which the orange sometimes more or less extends ; along inner margin 
some faint, dusky irroration, very rarely developed into a rather wide 
longitudinal border. Hind-wing as in $. Under side. — Similar ; 
hatchings darker. Fore-wing : apical orange faintly indicated. Hind- 
wing : costal hatching and cellular fold-streak more strongly marked. 
The $ is remarkably constant in colouring and marking, but the 
in addition to the variable features just mentioned, occasionally 
(two examples from Lydenburg District in Transvaal, and one from 
Makloutse River, north of Bamangwato) has the under side of the hind- 
wings and of the apical area of the fore-wings tinged with delicate 
creamy-pinkish. In these three $ s the apical orange of the upper 
side of the fore-wings is brighter than usual, and extends before the 
reduced bar on its inner side. 
On the convex part of the costa of the hind-wings there is (as 
