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Show 132 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE GENUS TERACOLUS. [Jan. 18, on the margin of the apical area within the lower discoidal interspace, and two marginal spots terminating the first and second median branches ; secondaries with the base of costa orange; a black discocellar dot; a broad oblique black bar, interrupted by the nervures from costa to third median, a spot on second median interspace, a dot on first median, and a spot on interno-median interspace, all black. Female with the apical patch orange, bordered with black, and crossed by a broad lunulated black band, or black spotted with yellow ; secondaries below either pinkish grey, with a broad, tapering, oblique brown streak, or yellow with a subangulated macular black streak (as in the male) ; with costa orange, and outer border broadly brown. T. imperator. 20. TERACOLUS IMPERATOR. Anthocharis ione, Reiche, in Ferret & Galinier, Voy. Abyss, pl. 30. figs. 1, 2, 5-7 (1849). Callosune ione (part.), Kirby, Syn. Cat. p. 500 (1871). Teracolus jobina (part.), Butler, Lep. Exot. p. 116 (1872). cS, Senegal (E. C. Buxton). Type, B.M. 3 h. Violet apical patch of male very widely bordered with black ; internal vein of primaries white, remaining veins partly black ; base densely dusted with grey ; veins of secondaries frequently black, but not so distinctly as in the two preceding forms, with terminal black spots; apex of primaries and the whole of secondaries below cream-coloured, with veins dusky; nervures terminating in black dots ; black discocellular dots ; secondaries below with a black subcostal spot (not a transverse bar). Female with the apical patch orange, bordered with black and crossed by black spots, or black with three decreasing white spots ; secondaries below lemon-yellow, partially reticulated with brown, crossed by an oblique brown streak, and two brown spots on first median and interno-median interspaces ; discocellular spots well marked. 21. TERACOLUS IONE. Pieris ione, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 140. n. 74 (1819). Anthocharis ione (part.), Boisduval, Sp. Ge'n. Lep.i.p. 515 (1836). Callosune ione (part.), Kirby, Syn. Cat. p. 500. n. 3 (1871). Anthocharis erone, Angas, Kaffirs Illustrated, pl. 30. fig. 3 (1849). Var. Anthopsyche speciosa, Wallengren, Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Akad. Handl. p. 16 (1857). S 2 y Natal (Becker, Argent, Burrows, E. C. Buxton). B.M. A small male, agreeing with Wallengren's description, is amongst the specimens presented by Mr. Buxton. 3 i. Violet patch of the male only represented by two spots ; under surface of secondaries yellow. 22. TERACOLUS EUNOMA. Pieris eunoma, Hopffer, Ber. Verh. Ak. Berl. p. 640. n. 2(1855) |
