as orange, where the inner one ends, but the outer is dimly 

 prolonged along external edge of orange. Hind-wing : a broad, 

 central, dark-grey, ferruginous- and black-edged, transverse 

 stripe, on its inner edge deeply pierced upwardly by a streak 

 of ground-colour ; a bright-ferruginous hind-marginal edging 

 and parallel submarginal streak, both obsolete near apex ; on 

 anal angle a black spot. 



? . Wings rounder, especially hind-wing ; fore-wing not 

 apically prominent. Med less metallic and paler, but 

 occupying a larger field, reaching nearer to base ; dark 

 borders narrower, not so black; cilia broader. Under-side. — 

 As in $ . Fore-iving : streaks from costa not convergent. 



Tile central band on underside of liind-wing is sometimes quite divided 

 by t he grey interseci ion on discoidal nervule. 



Hills and mountain-sides; rarely in low grounds, 



July (b) — Oi^toher (e). February (e). April (m). 



This splendid Zerifis is very distinct from ail its congeners, tbe under-side 

 being quiie void df the ordinarv spots. It is also the most bulky, though 

 not attaining the expanse of wings shown by some ? s of ^. Thero. The 

 best localiy 'iox Alpliceus is the loug hill lying between Wynberg and Protea; 

 on one occasion I found it rather common near the highest block-house on 

 the Devil's Mountain. Mr. J. L. Fry gave rae a specimen taken by him oa 

 the Fiats, and the single example I saw at Knysna (the only locality besides 

 Cape Town known to me as a habitat of this species) was also on a little 

 mound in the dry marshes, yilplueus is exceedingly rapid on the wing, but 

 settles very frrquc(jtly, and keeps constantly about one spot. It appears to 

 settle most frequently on the leaves of young Proteacea and of Watsonia ; 

 I Lave only twice noticed it on flowers, and never on the ground. The ? 

 is singularly scarce, even in the spots most frequented by ^s; I cannot 

 remember having seen more than five specimens in as many years' obserration. 



Cape Town. — Coll. Tri. Knysna (seen). 

 South Africa.— Coll. Brit. Mus. 



169. Zeritis Malagrida. 



Cygaritis malagrida, Wallgr., Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 43. 

 Var. — Zeritis Aglaspis, Trimen, Tr. Ent. Soc, 3rd Ser., 



[I, p. 286. 

 ? Polyommatus Evadrus (var. 3), Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, 



[p. 672. 

 Exp. 11 lin. — 1 in. 9 lin. 



$ . DuU-orange, bordered with black : bases more or less 

 tinged with pale-fuscous ; cilia conspicuously white, sharply 

 interrupted with black at ends of nervules. Fore-iving : 

 border moderately wide on costa (which is clouded with 

 greyish-ochreous from base to middle), very broad at apex 

 and at anal angle ; a pale-ochrcous spot, indenting costal 

 border, marks end of cell. Hind-wing : border wanting on 



