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Speciosus is a remarkably local form, being apparently restricted to the 
coast belt of Natal, and, as far as I am aware, not having hitherto been recorded 
out of D'Urban County. Within these narrow limits it is very numerous, and 
I met with it in abundance about D'Urban at the end of January, all through 
February, and again at the end of March and beginning of April 1867. Colonel 
Bowker has taken it freely in December also. The red-tipped form of $ is 
much less frequently met with than the other. I fell in with three specimens 
only during my visit, and Colonel Bowker has also noted its scarcity as com- 
pared with the black-and-white-tipped $ . 
The lovely is a very active and even rapid flyer, but the $ is much 
slower in her movements. Both sexes are fond of flowers, and I captured the 
finest specimens I obtained on those of Vinca rosea and of Lantana in the 
Botanic Gardens on the Berea Hill. On the ist February I observed and 
netted a ^ and a red-tipped 9 playing together close to the ground. I did 
not meet with the species anywhere away from the neighbourhood of D'Urban. 
Localities of Teracoliis speciosus. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Pinetown (/. //. Bowker). " Lower 
Umkomazi." — J. H. Bowker. 
271. (7.) Teracolus Jobina, Butler. 
$ 2 Eacliloe Johina, Butl, Cist. Ent., i. p, 14, n. 2 (1869). 
$ $ Teracolus Johina, Butl., Lep. Exot., p. 116, pL xliii. f. 3 [(^] (1872), 
9 ^^i^- Gallosune Johina, Stand., Exot. Schmett., i. pi. 23 (1884). 
Exp. al., {$) I in. 10^ lin. — 2 in. I lin. ; (?) I in. 1 1 lin. — 2 in. 
4lin. 
Closely allied to Speciosus^ Wallengr. 
^ White, with shining-violet apical patch of fore-wing comparatively 
larger than in Speciosus ^ and less vMely hlach-edged 07i both sides. Fore- 
iving : apical violet shaped much as in Speciosus^ and divided similarly, but 
wider, and with a minute fifth portion between third and fourth subcostal 
nervules almost always present ; ^ basal grey irroration very limited ; on 
costa sometimes a creamy-reddish tinge from base for a little distance ; 
terminal disco-cellular spot very faint or obsolete altogether, Hind-iuing : 
usually subcostal nervules only black-marked (and those often only to- 
wards their termination) ; rarely the other nervules are black near hind- 
margin, and with an inclination to a spot at the extremity. Cilia in 
fore-wing creamy-reddish, except a white portion near posterior angle ; 
in hind-wing more or less white in apical half, but the rest creamy- 
reddish. Under side. — Hind-wing and ap)ical patch of fore-iving pale 
reddish-creamy with a tinge of p)i'^^^^, — the former generally hut sparsely 
marked with short transverse grey striolm. Fore-iving : costa narrowly 
edged with creamy-reddish ; terminal disco-cellular spot small but dis- 
This minute almost linear bit of violet ia sometimes found in Speciosus. 
