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  LYCJENID-i: 
  (aFRICAK).— 
  ALOEIDES. 
  

  

  III.— 
  ALOEIDES' 
  MARS. 
  Figs. 
  5, 
  6. 
  

  

  Zeritis 
  Mars, 
  Trimen, 
  " 
  Transactions 
  Entomological 
  Society, 
  London," 
  

   3rcl 
  Series, 
  Vol. 
  I., 
  p. 
  -285. 
  

  

  Exp. 
  11 
  inches. 
  

  

  Male. 
  Upperside. 
  "Bright 
  orange-yellow, 
  not 
  metallic; 
  with 
  dark 
  

   brown 
  margins. 
  Fore 
  wing 
  : 
  Base 
  fuscous 
  ; 
  yellow 
  on 
  costa 
  paler, 
  mixed 
  with 
  

   grey 
  ; 
  a 
  broad 
  dark 
  brown 
  border 
  commences 
  abruptly 
  on 
  costa 
  a 
  little 
  before 
  

   extremity 
  of 
  discoidal 
  cell 
  (where 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  small, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  distinct, 
  brown 
  

   spot), 
  widens 
  considerably 
  at 
  apex, 
  and 
  continues 
  evenly, 
  though 
  less 
  broadly, 
  

   to 
  anal 
  angle. 
  Hind 
  wing 
  : 
  A 
  small 
  dark 
  dot, 
  often 
  indistinct, 
  closing 
  discoidal 
  

   cell 
  ; 
  another 
  similar 
  spot, 
  often 
  rather 
  larger, 
  near 
  anal 
  angle, 
  just 
  above 
  

   submedian 
  nerviu-e 
  ; 
  a 
  large, 
  dark 
  brown, 
  semicircular, 
  marginal 
  space 
  in 
  apical 
  

   region, 
  very 
  abruptly 
  narrowing 
  into 
  a 
  streak 
  (internally 
  dentate) 
  along 
  hind 
  

   margin 
  ; 
  a 
  short, 
  acute, 
  anal-angular 
  projection 
  of 
  outline 
  at 
  extremity 
  of 
  sub- 
  

   median 
  nervure. 
  Underside. 
  Costa 
  and 
  apex 
  of 
  forewing 
  and 
  whole 
  of 
  hind 
  

   wing 
  greyish-, 
  brownish-, 
  ferruginous-, 
  or 
  sanguineous-ochreous. 
  Fore 
  wing 
  : 
  

   Two 
  black 
  spots 
  in 
  discoidal 
  cell, 
  and 
  one 
  closing 
  it, 
  with 
  brilliant 
  silvery-white 
  

   centres 
  ; 
  an 
  irregular 
  transverse 
  row 
  of 
  similar 
  spots 
  beyond 
  middle 
  ; 
  a 
  marginal, 
  

   blackish, 
  macular 
  band, 
  almost 
  obliterated 
  in 
  its 
  upper 
  half, 
  but 
  broad 
  and 
  well- 
  

   marked 
  towards 
  inner 
  margin. 
  Hind 
  wing 
  : 
  Three 
  sinuate 
  rows 
  of 
  glistening, 
  

   sub-metallic 
  dots 
  across 
  wing— 
  the 
  first, 
  before 
  middle, 
  including 
  a 
  mark 
  closing 
  

   discoidal 
  cell, 
  the 
  third 
  less 
  shining, 
  merged 
  towards 
  costa 
  in 
  a 
  darker 
  shade 
  ; 
  

   two 
  "listeninc 
  dots 
  near 
  base, 
  one 
  below 
  costal 
  nervure, 
  the 
  other 
  in 
  cell." 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Knysna 
  ; 
  Fort 
  Murray 
  and 
  Fort 
  Hare, 
  British 
  Caffraria. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Museuui, 
  aud 
  others. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Trimen 
  in 
  the 
  last 
  edition 
  of 
  "South 
  African 
  Butterflies," 
  1887, 
  and 
  Professor 
  

   Aurivillius 
  place 
  A. 
  Mays 
  as 
  a 
  synonym 
  of 
  A. 
  Aranda, 
  Wallengr., 
  but 
  I 
  have 
  retained 
  it 
  under 
  

   the 
  name 
  in 
  which 
  it 
  stands 
  in 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Museum. 
  I 
  possess 
  a 
  specimen 
  in 
  my 
  

   collection 
  named 
  " 
  Aranda," 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Guy 
  Marshall, 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  orange-yellow 
  ground-colour 
  on 
  

   the 
  npperside 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings 
  broadly 
  extends 
  upwards 
  towards 
  the 
  costa, 
  nearly 
  bisecting 
  

   the 
  dark 
  brown 
  costal 
  band, 
  and 
  the 
  two 
  small 
  dots 
  on 
  the 
  upperside 
  of 
  the 
  posterior 
  wings 
  are 
  

   absent. 
  Mr. 
  Trimen 
  alludes 
  to 
  similar 
  specimens 
  from 
  the 
  Basuto 
  Territory 
  and 
  the 
  Transvaal. 
  

  

  IV.— 
  ALOEIDES 
  TAIKOSAMA. 
  <J. 
  Figs. 
  7, 
  8. 
  $. 
  Fig. 
  9. 
  

   Cifjaritis 
  Taihomma, 
  Wallengr., 
  " 
  Ehop. 
  Kaffr.," 
  p. 
  43 
  (1857). 
  

   I 
  have 
  here 
  figured 
  two 
  specimens 
  of 
  the 
  largest 
  form 
  of 
  this 
  so-called 
  

  

  