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Show 1876.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE GENUS TERACOLUS. 131 yellowish towards base ; a well-marked oblique brown streak: apical patch of female above black, spotted with white; base dusky ; apex below sordid yellowish, crossed by black-and-white spots; secondaries sordid yellowish, reticulated with grey ; a black-and-white spot at end of cell; base of costa yellowish ; an oblique brown streak as in the male. 18. TERACOLUS JOBINA. 6 ?, Euchloe jobina, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 14. n. 2 (1869). Callosune jobina, Kirby, Syst. Cat. p. 504. n. 49 (1871). o% Teracolus jobina, Butler, Lep. Exot. pl. xliii. fig. 3 (1872). o* $, Natal (E. C. Buxton). B.M The violet patch contains from five to six divisions: in the type in Mr. Druce's collection there are five, the two upper ones being very minute, and all of them being distinctly separated ; one example of the three males presented by Mr. Buxton has six divisions, separated only by the black nervures, 3f Violet apical patch of the male bordered on both sides with black; internal vein and apical two thirds of remaining veins beyond cell of primaries black; basal area and internal two fifths of secondaries dusted with grey ; internal area of primaries tinted with sulphur yellow; secondaries with black veins, terminating in black marginal spots : below, the apex of primaries and the secondaries tinted with pink, the latter with an oblique dotted line (composed of four to five small brown spots) ; base of costa ochraceous. Female with the apical patch orange, bordered with black and crossed by black spots, or black crossed by five white spots*, secondaries below pinkish grey or yellowish, reticulated with pale brown, crossed by an oblique brown streak, and with brown outer borders; base of costa sometimes ochreous. 19. TERACOLUS JALONE. cS, Euchloe jalone, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 14. n. 1 (1869). Callosune jalone, Kirby, Syn. Cat. p. 500. n. 6 (1871). Teracolus jalone (part.), Butler, Lep. Exot. p. 116 (1872). Anthocaris ione (sic), Lucas, Lep. Exot. pl. 37- fig. 4 (1835). 6* $> Anthocharis ione, Hopffer in Peters's Reise n. Mossamb. Zool. v. p. 357, pl. 21. figs. 1-6 (1862). cS, White Nile, Coll. Druce, E. Africa? B.M. The characters of the females are taken from Hopffer's figures. 3g. Nearly allied to the preceding ; violet apical patch of male much larger, more broadly black-bordered; internal vein and apical half of remaining veins beyond cell of primaries, and all the veins of secondaries, black; basal third of primaries and base of secondaries dusted with black, black marginal spots; apical area of primaries and whole of secondaries below cream-coloured; primaries with black dot at end of cell, a black squamose spot 9* |
