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Show 148 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE GENUS TERACOLUS. [Jan. 18, and apex of the first median nervule black ; apical area broadly orange (almost vermilion), its internal edge bordered indistinctly by black atoms ; a black dot at end of cell: secondaries with the apices of the nervures black, a marginal series of grey spots terminating the nervures. Primaries below white; apical area creamy orange, becoming clear and bright internally, crossed obliquely by a few brown scales, and speckled with brown towards apex: secondaries creamy whitish, with a feeble pink tint, densely reticulated, excepting just beyond the cell, with brown; a black-and-orange dot at end of cell, base of costa orange. Expanse of wings 2 inches. 2 . Very like the female of T. halyattes, but much larger, the apical spots of primaries above larger, the secondaries below with a clear patch beyond end of cell, as in the male. Expanse of wings 1 inch 9 lines. Var. 3 . Apical area of primaries below uniformly pinkish ; the secondaries also much more pink. Female with the internal streak of primaries above expanded into a broad irregular blackish patch. Expanse of wings, 3 1 inch 8 lines to 2 inches, $ 1 inch 9 lines. 3, Zoolu (Sir A. Smith) ; 3 2 > S. Africa (12 specimens, E. C. Buxton). TyPe» B.M. This is probably Trimen's Anthocharis ant evippe, but not Bois-duval's. 70. TERACOLUS CASTUS. 3. Callosune casta, Gerstaecker, Van der Decken's Reisen in Ost- Afrika, 3. Abth. ii. p. 365. n. 6, pl. xv. figs. 1, la (1873). Lake " Jipe," E. Africa. Allied to T. deidamia. 71. TERACOLUS SIMPLEX, n. sp. 3 . Wings above white : primaries with a very oblique triangular orange apical patch, bordered narrowly on its costal and external edges with pale brown ; a minute black dot at end of cell. Primaries below white, with the apical area ochraceous, indistinctly speckled with brown; a black dot at end of cell: secondaries pale rosy whitish, reticulated with reddish brown ; base of costa reddish ; a pale-yellow-and- black dot at end of cell; a few brown atoms congregated below the costa near apex. Expanse of wings 1 inch 10 lines. D'Urban (Capt. Shelley). Type, B.M. This species is readily distinguished by the absence of grey scaling at the base, the indistinctness of the outer border of the primaries, and the very oblique inner edge of the orange apical patch. 72. TERACOLUS DEIDAMIA. Anthopsyche deidamia, Wallengren, Wien. ent. Monatschr. iv. p. 35. n. 7 (1860). Callosune deidamia, Kirby, Syn. Cat. p. 503. n. 41 (1871). o*, 2 examples, Zoolu (Sir A. Smith). B.M. |
