270 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



appear almost continuous of spot closing discoidal cell ; 

 submarginal, metallic-dotted streak rather more strongly 

 marked. Hind-iving : greyisb-ochreous, with a ferruginous 

 hind-marginal tinge ; metallic dark-edged spots arranged 

 much as in Perion ; two in cell, one closing it; row beyond 

 middle more conspicuous, composed of seven spots, arranged 

 in pairs, except the seventh, — which, with the sixth, is large 

 and brilliant; submarginal streak as in fore -wing, but 

 strongly metallic at anal angle. 



Tiie antpiiDse are glistening beneath, but want the conspicuous white bar 

 of Z Perion; and the outline of wings is like that of the $ , but less 

 dentate. 



This little species is curiously like Z. Perion, 9 , but is readily distin- 

 guished from it by its metallic-orange upper-surface, its solitary discoidal 

 spot and broader (comparatively) hind-marginal border of fore-wing; and 

 beneath by different arrangement of spois, which are more steely than 

 golden. The above description is male from a single specimen, apparently 

 a $ . It is the smallest of the Genus that I liave seen. 



"Caught at the edge of a forest, — March." — J. H. Bowker. 



Bashee River, KafFraria(J. H. Bowker). — Coll. S. A. Mus. 



168. Zeritis Alphseus. 



Papilio Alphseus, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 380, f. E, F. 

 Hesperia Alphaeus, Fab., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. SSS, n. 



[265. 

 Polyommatus Alphasus, Godt., Enc. Meth , IX, p. 663. 

 Zeritis Alphaeus, Douhl., Westw., Heioits., Gen. Diurn. 



[Lep., pi. 77, f. 3. 

 Exp. 1 in. 4| lin. — 1 in. 10| lin. 



$ . Glossy -blacky with a broad, discal, submetallic-red 

 band, from fourth subcostal nervule of fore-wing to submedian 

 nervure of hind-wing, near anal angle ; a mixed golden and 

 purplish gloss over basal region ; cilia white, with black 

 spots at ends of nervules. Fore-wing : band exteriorly 

 indented with black on nervules. Hind-wing : a narrow 

 costal blackish border; inner-marginal region hairy, dull-grey; 

 anal angle bluntly produced, marked with a red spot ; on 

 subcostal nervure, at origin of nervules, a small, subovate, 

 glistening space. Under-side. — Hind-wing and border of 

 fore-wing (except inner-margin) hoary-grey, clouded with 

 darker. Fore-wing : bright-orange, paling into dull-yellowish 

 on inner-margin ; at end of cell, two short, ferruginous, 

 blackish-edged, transverse marks, between which is a greyish 

 space ; between them and apex, two longer similar, more 

 widely apart, crenelated streaks from costa, converging as far 



