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Show 574 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA [June 19, buff and transversely striated with grey ; base of costal margin saffron-yellow ; a rounded pale buff spot at end of cell upon a triangular greyish testaceous area, partly bounded externally by a well-defined dull copper-brown oblique bar from costa to third median branch; this bar is continued, almost at right angles, by three brown spots on a buff-tinted nebula ; outer border buff; abdominal area creamy whitish : body below white. Expanse of wings 43 millim.1 N o exact locality given ; probably Sabaki Valley. Although evidently belonging to the T. regina group, this female is much more heavily black-bordered than any other species of the group; the striated and clouded under surface give the insect (when its wings are closed) the appearance of a dead and mouldering leaf. 89. TERACOLUS PHLEGYAS. Anthocharis phlegyas, Butler, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 431. n. 3, pi. xxv. figs. 3, 3 a. 3 3, no exact locality recorded ; probably Sabaki Valley. 90. TERACOLUS IMPERATOR. Teracolus imperator, Butler, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 132. n. 20. c? 3 5 no exact locality recorded ; probably Sabaki Valley. 91. TERACOLUS PHCENIUS. 3. Teracolus phcenius, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xviii. p. 488 (1876). 2 . Albino form, Butler, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 74. n. 95. Ngatana ; shores of Lake Baringo ; Njempo; steppes of the Kiroruma; Kavaluki Valley ; Ndangi River. Three of the four females in the above series have crimson tips to the primaries and therefore differ very slightly from females of T. miles. The latter will, I think, have to be considered synonymous with this species. 92. TERACOLUS INCRETUS. 2. Teracolus incretus, Butler, Ent. Month. Mag. xviii. p. 146 (1881). 3. Callosune vulnerata, Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. pi. 23. 3 3 , Steppes of Thika-Shika and Ndangi River. One of the specimens is larger than any previously received. 93. TERACOLUS SYRTINUS. 3. Teracolus syrtinus, Butler, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 163. n. 124. 2 . White, with black markings above almost exactly as in the female of T. phillipsii; the base of the wings more suffused with grey, but less so than in T. xanthevarne, 2 5 apical area pale 1 The under surface of Westwood's reputed female of T. buxtoni somewhat approaches this species. |