264 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS, 



Zenxo, but filled with more glittering silvery, — the whole 

 (except dots of submarginal row) usually metallic-centred, 

 but sometimes only those near costa. Hind-wing : spots 

 small, slightly glistening, arranged as in Zeiixo, but less 

 distinct ; on hind-margin of paler specimens some ferruginous 

 clouding. Anal-angular projection of hind-wing more acute 

 than in Zeuxo. 



This species appears to be much more widely distribu'ed than its near 

 ally, occurring from Cape Town to the Bashee River. It is the most 

 metallic of the group. The few specimens I have met with near Cape Town 

 only occurred on mountain sides, usually at a considerable elevation. The 

 fore-wings of the $ are more prominent at apex, acd those of the ? more 

 convex on hind-margin than in Zeuxo, and they possess no spot in, or just 

 below, cell. 



February (e). April (e). " September, October, March, and June."— 

 W. D'Urban, in litt. 



Cape Town. Muizenberg. Swellendam (L. Taats). — 

 Coll. Tri. 



"Port Elizabeth. Keiskamma River, near Bodiam. 

 King William's Town."— W. D'Urban, in litt. 



Kei and Bashee Rivers, KalFraria (J. H. Bowker). — Coll. 

 S. A. Mus. 



164. Zeritis Pyroeis. 



Zeritis Pyroeis, mihi. N. Sp. 



Exp. 1 in. — 1 in. 4 lin. 



Allied to Z, Zeuxo, Linn. 



Orange-yellow, smooth but not metallic, with black spots ; 

 base of both wings broadly blackish and densely blue-scaled ; 

 hind-wing of $ richly shot with a shifting blue lustre. 

 Fore-wing : costa and hind-margin bordered with black ; 

 costal border broadest near base, where it is powdered with 

 fulvous- ochreous, — hind -marginal border very regular, of 

 even width, very slightly crenelated on inner edge ; just 

 beyond basal clouding a small round spot in discoidal cell, a 

 longer quadrate spot closing cell ; beyond middle an irregular 

 row of six spots, of which the three first form a continuous 

 costal stripe, the fourth is nearer base, the fifth in a line 

 beneath the three first, and the sixth (above submedian 

 nervure) in a line beneath the fourth. Hind-wing: a row of 

 six spots as in fore-wing, except that the three first spots are 

 more separate, — in $ the first spot is almost merged in costal 

 blackish band, which is wider than in ? ; on hind-margin a 

 row of black arches (sharper in ^ ) intersecting the ground- 

 colour between nervules, which carry the orange to edge ; 



