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Show 142 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE GENUS TERACOLUS. [Jan. 18, 48. TERACOLUS FRIGA, n. sp. (Plate VI. fig. 5.) 3, 2 • White above, the female slightly tinted with sulphur-yellow towards the base; base blackish grey ; primaries with the apex orange; costa of the male broadly black in the centre; outer maigin black, dentate-hastate, the apices of the nervures black, male with the usual black spot on the orange, the female with the angulated black streak ; a black internal spot indicating the termination of a greyish streak (dimly visible in the female only) ; secondaries with a marginal series of conical black spots united in the female ; an ill-defined W-shaped marking touching the third marginal spot: primaries below white ; a black dot at end of cell; apex in the male broadly dull reddish, becoming greyish externally and crossed by a scarcely visible angulated grey streak; costa and apex of the female ochreous, irrorated with grey; a subapical angulated brown streak ; base and subcostal area sulphur-yellow ; secondaries of the male sordid white, irrorated with blackish ; the costa deep orange ; two subapical ochreous spots; an orange-bordered black dot at end of cell; secondaries of the female sandy, becoming whitish towards the centre, densely irrorated with purplish brown ; two subapical brown spots; costa orange; a black-and-orange dot at end of cell. Expanse of wings 3 1 inch 5 lines, $ 1 inch 4 lines. N.E. of Natal (E. C. Buxton). Type, B.M. 49. TERACOLUS GALATHINUS, n. sp. 3 . Above like T. interruptus, excepting that there is a submarginal zigzag grey streak from the radial to the internal nervure of secondaries : primaries below white ; a black discocellular point; apical area reddish orange, with a subapical diffused yellow spot; fringe rosy; secondaries rosy, irrorated with brown ; a subapical brown spot, and a discal brown streak across the median branches; costa deep orange ; a black-and-orange dot at end of cell. Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 2 • White, with the subapical and subbasal areas yellow, base grey; primaries with the costa and fringe rosy; a black discocellular spot; a broad blackish internal streak terminating in a black spot: apex broadly black, sometimes crossed by a curved series of cuneiform yellow spots; secondaries with a marginal series of conical black spots; an irregular discal black streak ; apex yellowish: primaries below white, the basal and costal areas sulphur-yellow: a black point at end of cell; apical area clay-coloured, reddish externally, and bounded within by a brown angulated streak bordered with dull reddish orange ; secondaries as in the male, but darker. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. N.E. of Natal (1 3,6 $, E. C. Buxton). Type, B.M. 50. TERACOLUS INTERRUPTUS. 3,2 Teracolus interruptus, Butler, P. Z. S. p. 724 (1871) ; Lep. Exot. p. 115, pl. xliii. figs. 1, 2 (1872).: 3 2, Loanda (coll. R. Meldola) ; 3] Angola (E. C. Buxton). B.M. |
