SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
fuscous irroration above median nervure ; inner-marginal stripe fainter 
tlian on upper side, but its terminal upward ray well marked, and 
(more faintly) continued to near costa by diffused macular inner border 
of apical patch ; disco-cellular spot well developed ; orange of apical 
patch very faintly indicated. Hind-vjing : only a very faint indication 
of elbowed discal ray. 
Variety A. {$ and 
^ Larger {cxp. al, i in. 7-7-g- lin.), with orange-yellow apical patch 
someiuhat redder tut duller iii tint, and its inner blackish border much 
narroioer and more diffused. Fore-ioing : disco-cellular dot smaller. 
Ilind-unng : hind-marginal nervular spots very small. Under side. — 
Hind-u-ing and apical patch of fore-iuing very imlc reddish-creamy, irro- 
rated more closely than in type-form. 
$ Exp. al., I in. 6-7 lin. Pattern as in type-form ; but apical 
orange-yellow in one example represented only by a few scales, and in 
the other by a diffused ill-defined ray of three spots in the middle of a 
dusky blackish patch. Under side. — Hind-wing and apical patch of 
fore-wing paler and duller than in typical ^. 
{Hab. — Vaal River, Griqualand West.) 
The ^ of this very distinct species has some resemblance to Klug's 
figures of his Ephyia, from Ambukohl {Symb. Fhys., pi. vi. ff. 9, lo), 
but presents a smaller apical patch and an irrorated under side. In 
both these characters it approaches T. Bowkeri, Trim, (see p. 100), but 
differs in the much deeper, warmer colour of its apical patch with its 
narrower and fainter inner blackish border. In this last feature it is 
not unlike Agoye, Wallengr., J, but wants the conspicuous upper-side 
black neuration and irroration of the latter. As regards the Lais is 
altogether different from the two South- African congeners just named, 
that sex having the upper- side pattern and facies partly of Antevippe, 
Boisd., ^, and partly of Antigone, Boisd., whereas the $ s of Agoye 
and Boivkeri are wholly, or almost wholly, devoid of the characteristic 
dark stripes and rays. 
The variety above described co-exists with the type-form on the 
Vaal River, and may possibly be a seasonal form of the latter. 
Very few examples of this butterfly have come under my notice. The type 
(a ) in the British Museum is ticketed " Orange River," and registered as 
collected by " C. H. Pilcher, 1872." A $ from Damaraland was sent to me 
for determination by Mr. Aurivillius in 1881, and a ^ and ? taken on the 
Vaal River were presented to the South- African Museum by Mr. H. L. Feltham 
during the current year (1888). 
Of the Variety A., four examples (two of each sex) were taken by Colonel 
Bowker on the Vaal River in 187 1, but no note accompanied them except the 
general one (since confirmed by Mr. Feltham), that in that tract of country all 
the Teracoli were almost confined to the immediate vicinity of the river. 
