SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
than tlie two $ pupes, pale-yellow on the back, the dorsal median 
streak purple, and most of the other streaks dull vinous-red. 
After careful comparison of a large number of South- African speci- 
mens, and examination of the types of Mr. Butler's four species above 
named, I have found no characters serving to distinguish the latter 
from one another (except size), or the Southern Antcvippe generally 
from the Senegal one constituting Boisduval's type. This author 
figures the upper side of a ^, showing no trace of any blackish on the 
inner edge of the apical patch, but in which the hind-marginal spots 
of the hind-wing are sufficiently enlarged to form a narrow continuous 
edging. Geyer's figures {op> cit>) of a ^ from the same country repre- 
sent the same total absence of any inner blackish to the patch, but 
differ in the more reduced and almost macular state of the outer black 
edging ; while the hind- wing spots are much smaller and not united, 
and the under side of the hind-wing has a decidedly pinkish-creamy 
tinge. 
In Mr. Butler's series, Ignifer is the largest, and the $ has a 
slight blackish inner edge to the apical patch. It is to his Var. $ " 
of this that are referable the specimens described by me as Antevippe 
(op. cit.) in 1862; in them the inner edging referred to is better 
expressed, and but for the entire want of the longitudinal blackish 
stripe in both wings, they closely resemble the ordinary $ Achine} 
The specimens of ItJionus^ Butl., seemed to me quite inseparable from ' 
Ignifer except by their smaller size in both sexes ; JIipp)ocrene again 
was represented by still smaller examples and a $ with dull pale- 
yellowish upper-side apical marking, and Rarmonicks by the smallest 
of the series (exp, al. i in. 5 lin,).^ 
In October 1885 I received from Colonel Bowker the paired sexes, then 
recently captured by him near D'Urban in Natal. The ^ of this pair has no 
blackish whatever along the inner edge of the apical red ; and the $ has the 
apical orange-red well developed, with the traversing macular blackish ray thin 
and faint, while the discal ray of the hind-wings is almost obsolete. The 
under-side irroration is well developed in both ^ and $ . 
There is nothing special about the habits of this Teracolus, which on the 
wing resembles Achine. It was much scarcer than the latter when I was col- 
lecting in the Knysna district of the Cape Colony, and I only fell in with it 
during the month of November. On the coast of Natal it is evidently abun- 
dant in the dry (winter) season, Colonel Bowker having collected a large 
number, chiefly in the month of August ; ^ of which the $ s exhibit every 
gradation of size, development of upper-side black markings, and tint of apical 
patch. A few specimens were sent from the Trans-Keian territory by Colonel 
Bowker as long ago as 1861-63, and are still in the collection of the South- 
1 Colonel Bowker has sent one example from D'TJrban, Natal, which shows a still nearer 
approach to Achine by possessing a very faint diffused sparse blackish irroration along the 
inner margin of the fore- wings, 
2 Judging from the figure {Exot. Schmett, i. pi. 23, 1S84), Staudinger's Havernickii from 
"Transvaal" is a small S of Antevippc. 
3 One of two 6 s collected at D'Urban by Mr. A. D. Millar is ticketed "17th September 
1S87," and the other " loth February 18SS." 
