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Show 1876.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE GENUS TERACOLUS. 147 marginal dots of secondaries still smaller: primaries below with the apical area sandy reticulated with grey, with pale rosy borders, and an oblique inner transverse grey line composed of three grey spots : secondaries rosy whitish reticulated with grey; a black dot at end of cell; the base of costa orange. Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 2. White above, the base greyish; primaries with the costa greyish, black towards apex; apical area orange; outer border rather broadly black, deeply sinuated internally, extending to first median nervule; a subapical oblique irregular black streak, united to the outer border by black lines on the nervures (thus producing five subapical spots, the second minute) ; a black dot at end of cell; a grey internal streak terminating in a blackish spot: secondaries with the abdominal area greyish ; six decreasing greyish-brown marginal spots, very large at apex ; a dusky subcostal spot towards apex ; a dusky oblique irregular marking on the disk and touching the third and fourth marginal spots. Primaries below white, the base pale yellowish ; a black dot at end of cell; a grey internal line, terminating in a large black spot ; apical area sandy, speckled with brown, becoming orange internally, and crossed by three grey spots : secondaries whity-brown, reticulated with brown ; a black dot at end of cell; costa tinted with orange at base. Expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines. Between Natal and Delagoa Bay (E. C. Buxton). Type, B.M. 68. TERACOLUS HIPPOCRENE, n. sp. 3. Also like T. ithonus above, but the marginal spots of secondaries larger and the base more heavily blackened : primaries below white, the apical area lemon-yellow, becoming paler externally ; a black dot at end of cell: secondaries creamy white; the veins brownish ; abdominal half of the wings speckled with brown ; base of costa bright golden orange ; a black-and-orange dot at end of cell. Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 2 . White, the apical area stramineous, with the black and grey markings as in T. ithonus, excepting that the internal grey streak is narrower: secondaries with basal and abdominal areas greyish ; a marginal series of grey spots; an ill-defined W-shaped marking on the disk, cut by the third median branch. Wings below white : primaries with a black dot at end of cell; apex creamy yellowish speckled with brown, stramineous externally, and crossed obliquely by four brown spots: secondaries creamy, speckled with brown hatchings, which congregate as spots on the costa near apex and upon the centre of the disk ; a black dot at end of cell. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. Between Natal and Delagoa Bay (E. C. Buxton). Type, B.M. 69. TERACOLUS IGNIFER, n. sp. 3. Wings above white, the base blackish: primaries with the apical half of costa and the outer margin to first median branch black, the apical fork of the subcostal, external two fifths of the radials, half the third median, external third of the second median, 10* |