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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
brown, macular, but complete, the spots between third median nervule 
and submedian nervure being represented. j 
Variety A., $ and $ {Buxtoni, Butl.). 
J Apical patch of fore-wing rather larger, its outer border being 
broader, and its inner one {though narrow and diffused) more developed I 
and complete throughout. Fore-wing : terminal disco-cellular spot some- ! 
times present though minute. Under side. — Without black neuration; 
hind-wing and apex of fore-wing with an extremely slight tinge of 
yellowish or reddish, — the former rarely with some scattered brownish- 
grey striolation, chiefly on margins ; terminal disco-cellular spot small 
but distinct in both wings. 
$ Apical patch broader, brighter in tint, the orange radiating in- 
wardly on nervules as far as extremity of discoidal cell, and outivardly 
strongly siffusing its brownish border. Fore-wing : discal spot near pos- I 
terior angle sometimes wanting. Hind-iving : hind-marginal spots very 
much reduced or obsolete. Under side. — Hind-wing and apical area i 
of fore-wing finely striolated with reddish broivn. Hind-wing: area j 
generally from base as far as discal ray (which is much difi'used and ' 
not macular), tinged with pale-brownish. 
Three <J s of this variety, respectively from Damaraland, the Trans- 
vaal, and the Zambesi have the under side and the cilia of fore-wing 
tinted with creamy-pinkish as in Jobina, Butler. i 
{Hab. — Damaraland, Tropical Interior South Africa, Transvaal, I 
Swaziland.) 
Alter examining the types in the British Museum, I could not find 
sufficient grounds for separating as species Buxtoni and Phlegyas. The 
variety (in the $) is nearer than Phlegyas proper to typical lone ; but, 
on the other hand, the black under-side neuration of Phlegyas approxi- 
mates it to the Natalian Variety A. of lone above described. The $ 
of the variety nearly resembles the $ Jobina, Butler, especially on the 
under side, but presents a much more extended field of apical red on 
the upper side. In size Phlegyas (including Buxtoni) is intermediate 
between lone and Jobina. 
The typical Phlegyas inhabits the Soudan (White Nile) and Abyssinia, and 
the variety Buxtojii is known to inhabit the tropical belt from the Zambesi 
southward, and on the eastern side to penetrate as far as the Transvaal and 
Swaziland. I have not seen any but red-tipped $ s referable to this species. 
West wood's figures {op. cit.) are somewhat larger and more strongly marked 
than any specimen I have seen, and indeed than, from his own description, 
would appear to have been among Mr. Oates's examples. The late Mr. E. C. 
Buxton sent me coloured photographs of Swaziland specimens of the butterfly. 
Localities of Teracolus Phlegyas. 
I. South Africa. 
H. Swaziland {E. C. Buxton. — Var.). 
K. Transvaal. — Marico and Limpopo Rivers {F. C. Selous. — Var.). 
Lydenburg District {T. Ayres. — Var.). 
