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SOUTH-AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
268. (4.) Teracolus Bowkeri, Trimen. 
^ Callosune Agoye, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond,, 1870, p. 381. 
$ Teracolus Boivkerij Trim., op. cit.^ 1883, p. 358. 
Plate XL fig. 4 {$)} 
Exp. al, {$) I in. 6-7^ lin. ; ($) i in. 7-7^ lin. 
J White, with yelloio-ochreous apical patch in fore-wing. Fore- 
wing : base and costa sparsely irrorated witli black ; apical patch 
internally irregularly bordered with black, whick is broad in its 
middle part (and sometimes also in its upper part), but attenuated 
and usually ill-defined towards its extremities ; a narrow ray of clear 
yellow-ochreous immediately beyond tke black, but the rest of apical 
patch tinged with greyish. Hind-iuing : base irrorated with black, 
more widely and rather more closely than in fore-wing ; a longitudinal 
ray of black irroration on costa beyond middle, its outer extremity 
sometimes strongly marked; subcostal nervules very rarely thinly 
defined with black ; in some specimens a few black atoms scattered 
about disc. Under side. — Hind-wing and apical area of fore-wing 
very faintly tinged loith yellowish. Hind-wing : costa very narrowly 
edged with chrome-yellow from base to a little beyond middle ; a 
general very fine and very sparse irroration of dusky atoms. 
% Fore-iving : apical patch fascous-hroionish, darker inwardly, tra- 
versed mesially hj a dull yelloiv-ochreous my, which is sometimes 
suffused and ill-defined ; base more widely irrorated than in male. 
Hind-vAng : beyond middle, from costa, a transverse row of three ill- 
defined dull-fuscous spots, the first of which represents the termina- 
tion of the black costal irroration in the male. Under side. — Yellowish 
colouring much more decided than in male. Hind-wing : fine dusky 
irroration closer than in male. 
Variety A. — and Considerably smaller : ex^. al. (3 $ s) 
I in. 3-5 lin.; (2 $ s) i in. 2I-4I lin. 
$ Costal and basal irroration wanting in fore-wing and all but 
absent in hind-wing ; inner black edging of apical patch of fore-wing 
narrower. Under side. — Tinge of yellow more decided. 
^ Basal irroration wanting, as well as faint fuscous spots of hind- 
wing ; apical patch of fore-wing redder, its dusky-brown borders much 
reduced ; the external one almost obsolete. Under side. — Yellowish 
deeper, in one specimen tinged with creamy-pinkish. 
{Hob. — Namaqualand District, Cape Colony.) 
This near ally of T. Jgoye, Wallengr., is, in the distinguishable 
^ This figure is no credit to chromo-lithography, and gives a very incorrect idea of the 
species. Tiie apical patch is much too dull and dusky in tint, and the ground-colour 
generally, instead of being pure white, as in nature, is represented with various yellow 
and greenish shades. On the under side, also, the apical shade is much too dusky, and the 
hind-wing too much stained with yellowish. I write while comparing with the figure the 
actual specimen from which it was drawn. 
