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Show 158 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON T H E GENUS TERACOLUS. [Jan. 18, through the centre of the disk, large and much interrupted in primaries, small, and terminating in the second median interspace in secondaries: primaries with a well-marked black spot at end of cell; apical area and outer border to external angle brown; the inner margin of apical area scarcely extending beyond the angulated upper portion of the discal series of black spots ; a subapical curved series of cream-coloured hastate spots, slightly speckled with scarlet externally, and bounded by the black angulated series : secondaries with a brown border, paler at the internervular folds. Primaries below white, the base broadly sulphur yellow, the apical area pale buff; the four uppermost black spots annular, upon a diffused reddish ground, otherwise as above : secondaries pale buffy whitish ; the discal spots of secondaries cordiform, carmine, varied with pearly whitish and black ; a spot of the same colours at end of cell. Expanse of wings 2 inches 1 line. Scinde. Type, coll. F. Moore. 109. TERACOLUS EBOREOIDES, n. sp. (Plate VII. fig. 12.) 3 . Above very like Cramer's figure of male T. eborea, but blackish at the base; below very like T. danae, but without the reddish tint round the subapical black spots. Expanse of wings 1 inch 11 lines. 2 • Wings above with the basal third brownish grey : primaries with the centre irregularly white; the apical third dark brown, crossed by four triangular orange spots, bounded internally by black spots ; a black spot at the end of the cell; a second constricted spot on interno-median interspace and in the middle of the central white area, and a minute point near the external border; the apical area is deeply bisinuate towards external angle, and decreases in width to the angle : secondaries with a decreasing dark brown border from the apex to the anal angle, slightly intersected with whitish on the internervular folds; the area between the grey part and the outer border white ; five black discal spots, and a spot at the end of the cell: wings below as in the male, but slightly deeper in colour. Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 3 2 , India (W. B. Farr). Coll. F. Moore. The above is a very well-marked species. 110. TERACOLUS SANGUINALIS, n. sp. 3. Much like a small example of T. danae, but the primaries more acuminate, the carmine patch rather brighter; the grey colouring confined to the extreme base and costa, not extending into the secondaries; the marginal spots of secondaries better separated and rather smaller. Apical area of primaries below redder ; the angulated series of spots larger and redder ; the spots upon the margin near external angle small and indistinct : secondaries white, slightly creamy, with the outer border very feebly ochraceous ; the spots, which are arranged as in T. danae, are greyish brown ; the spot at end of cell reddish, with a narrow brown margin. Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. $ . Differs from the female of T. danae in its smaller size, more |