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Show 1894.] FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 573 oval white marginal spot, and below this again the black is externally undulating, leaving three pure white indentations confluent with the white fringe. On the secondaries the black costal border, instead of extending almost to the apex, is cut across transversely and therefore terminates much more abruptly. I have no doubt that both this and T. opalescens constitute constant local races, far more worth}' of specific rank thau many of the species which m y excellent, but, as I think, inconsistent, friend has considered distinctl. The markings in Dr. Gregory's example are less strongly defined than in Felder's figure ; but there cannot be a question as to the identity of the species ; at the same time, I should doubt whether the two males associated in the Hewitson collection under the name of T. agoye are actually one species. 87. TERACOLUS PUNICEUS. (Plate XXXVI. figs. 5, 6.) Teracolus puniceus, Butler, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 72. n. 92. cf, without label of exact locality ; probably Sabaki Valley. The female w e received from the Victoria Nyanza. 88. TERACOLUS FOLIACEUS, sp. n. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 7.) 2 . Above chalky white, the basal third irrorated with fine grey scales: primaries with a conspicuous spot at the end of the cell; the apical two-thirds of costa and the apical third of wing to inner margin, as well as a large almost wedge-shaped spot only separated from the latter by a large round white spot near external angle, black, slightly suffused with brown near outer margin; a series of six sordid white spots in an arched series between costa and the above-mentioned large white spot, the first small, the second large and pyriform, the remainder regularly decreasing in size, the second, third, and fourth spots flecked with magenta; sub-median vein, base of inner margin, and subcostal vein of secondaries tinted with sulphur : secondaries wdth a very broad external black border, occupying about one-fourth of the wing, its inner edge strongly dentated on the veins, and an oblique squamose subapical black streak from costa to centre of third median branch : body normal. Primaries below white, the base primrose-yellow, followed in the cell by a transverse greyish nebula ; black spot at end of cell as above; costa and a broad apical border, tapering to first median branch, buff-yellowish, the latter transversely striated with grey and bounded internally by whitish spots, of which the first three are defined by an inner diffused bordering of argillaceous brown shading into grey-brown, and the remainder by a series of more or less acutely angulated black spots curving inwards to submedian area, the upper ones also placed on a diffused grey-brown area answering to the inner edge of the black area of the upper surface : secondaries whitish, tinted with pearl-grey and 1 It has always been a puzzle to me that Lepidopterists, who in one genus allow unlimited variability and extraordinary ranges to the species, in a nearly-allied genus restrict both in an equally remarkable degree. |