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Ent. Soc. Lond., 3rd Ser., i. p. 522, 1863), from Damaraland, is iden- 
tical — seems entitled to species rank. Only the $ of this butterfly is 
known/ and I have not seen any example except the two on which 
(in ignorance of Wallengren's diagnosis) I proposed the species PJioenon. 
Compared with Celimene, these examples of Pholoe are much smaller 
(exp. 0.1. I in. 6 lin.) ; the apical patch is duller, with less crimson in 
its tint, with all its black borders and neuration, as well as the inter- 
secting streak, duller and narrower ; the disco-cellular dot is distinct 
on the upper side of the fore-wing, while the hind-wing has no black 
border, but merely a thin blackish line on hind-marginal edge as far 
as second subcostal nervule and the extremities of four nervules clouded 
with black (the first median nervule and the submedian nervure being 
unmarked). On the under side the ground-colour is paler, nearly 
white ; the neuration clouding yellower ; in the fore-wings, the basal 
orange-yellow is more extended and deeper ; the disco-cellular dot 
enlarged ; and the red on inner side of apical patch duller, paler, 
without tinge of pink, and very much reduced, being almost obso- 
lete above lower radial nervule ; while in the hind-wings the two sub- 
transverse striae are duller and yellower and less irregular — the outer 
one especially being not nearly so widely disjoined on third median 
nervule. 
As far as at present known, Pholoe may be regarded as the Western repre- 
sentative of the East- African Celimene. 
The latter appears to be by no means frequent in collections. I examined 
a pair from the Zambesi (the types of Amina) in the Hewitson Collection, and 
the British Museum also possesses a $ taken by the late Mr. E. C. Buxton in 
Swaziland, In the North- West Transvaal, on the Limpopo and Marico, the 
butterfly seems to be not very rare, Mr. E. C. Selous having forwarded four $ s 
and a $ from thence, and also a $ from the Makloutze River within the Tropic. 
Mr. T. Ayres' collection contained a $ (now in the South-African Museum), 
captured " between the Limpopo and Zambesi." 
Celimene and Pholoe constitute a singular section of Temcolus^ which, as 
Mr. Butler {loc. cit.) has pointed out, is less isolated than it appeared to be 
since the discovery in Somaliland of the beautiful T. prceclarus, Butl. (loc. cit., 
p. 769, pi. xlvii. f. 7, ^ ). The $ of this species is on the upper side very like 
the $ Celimene, but has the purple-red patch even larger, while the ^ presents 
in the equally large black apical patch a central lake-red macular band and six 
small hind-marginal spots of the same colour. On the under side, however, 
though the pattern of the fore-wings is not widely different from that shown 
by Celimene, in the hind-wings the absence of red neuration and of the striae, 
and the presence of a brownish discal band and of reddish-ochreous colouring 
beyond it, exhibit more resemblance to the splendid T. Zoe, Grandidier, of 
Madagascar. The under-side colouring and pattern in Celimene and Pholoe, 
combine to some extent the features of the very different T. Eulimene, Klug, 
from Dongola, and T. Vesta, Reiche, while the upper side presents no likeness 
to that of either of those species. 
^ Mr. Butler {Proc. Zool. Soc. LoncL, 1885, p. 770) regards the diagnosis of "Wallengren's 
Pholoe as relating to the ? ; but it is clear to me that the description of the apical patch, 
"maculis biseriatis rubris violaceo-micantibus, lineolisque marginalibus flavis," can only 
apply to the 6 . 
