median neiTule and aual-augular prominence. I have not seen tlic ? of 

 the typic.d form. 



Ilill-sidcs and summits. 



December. February (b) — March (e). 



lias quite the habits of its nearest congeners, flying rapidly, but for very 

 short disiancps, after the manuc-r of the lleiiperidce, and alniost always 

 settling on the griiuud. It may easily be taken wiili the finf^ers, if the 

 colleclor gradually and cautiously approaches it. A most b^aiitiful species. 



Cape Town. Stellenbosch. Svvellendam (L. Taats). — 

 Coll. Tri. 



" Kairiaria (Wahlberg)."— Wallgr. 



170. Zeritis Thyra. 



Papilio Thyra, Linn., Sijat. Nat., II, p. 789, n. 227. 



„ ,, ,, Mus.Lud. Ulr. Rec/., p. 32S,n. \iu. 



„ Nycetus, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. '243, f. E, F. 

 Hesperia Thyra, Fab., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 314, n. 188. 

 Polvommatus Evadrus (var. 2), Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, 



[p. 672. 

 ? ? Polyonimatus Thyra, Godt., op cit., p. GQS, n. 156. 

 Zeritis Thyra, DouhL, JFestiu., Heivits., Gen. D. Lep., 



[pi. 76, f. 9. 

 Exp. 1 in. 1 lin. — 1 in. 6 lin. 



$ . Orange-red, with blackish borders. Fore-wing : border 

 rather narrow at base (where it is suffused with greyish- 

 ochreous, which sometimes narrowly edges costa to apex), 

 but widening greatly to apex, whence, abruptly narrowing 

 on first median nervule, it is moderately broad along hind- 

 margin to anal angle, where it usually widens again ; base 

 blackish mixed with ochreous. IFmd-wing : border usually 

 nearly obsolete on costa, but commencing more or less 

 broadly about apex, narrowed abruptly on first median 

 nervule, and thence only a dentate edging to anal angle. 

 Under-side. — Hind-wing and border of fore-iving greyish- 

 or broivnish-ochreous, or often purplish-lake, the former with 

 irregular ivhitish streaks and spots. Fore-wing : orange 

 usually paler, especially towards inner-margin ; two black 

 spots in cell, one closing it, an inwardly-oblique transverse 

 row of five or six beyond it, and a suffused submarginal 

 row, — all spots above median nervure and its first branch 

 white-centred, those of cell very conspicuously ; below cell 

 two blackish markings (one basal, one just beyond) usually 

 confluent. Hind-iving : two small spots at base, one on 

 costa, one in cell ; a transverse row of four before n)iddle 

 (one in cell) ; a long streak closing cell, usually confluent 



