LYCJEmDJE. i6i 



and beyond middle towards lower part of liiud-margin, where tliere is 

 a clouding of brownisli-fuscous ; anal-angular fulvous-oclireoas spot 

 smaller than on upper side, and edged inferiorly with black. 



This curious little species appears to constitute a passage between tlie 

 genera Apluiceus and Zeritis ; the upper side of the wings, with a blue gloss 

 and fulvous anal-angular spot (but without the usual yellow-ochreous mark- 

 ings), resembling that prevalent in the former genus, while the metallic- 

 centred spots of the under side are so similar in aiTangement and appearance 

 to the characteristic spotting of Zeritis (and particularly to that of the little 

 Z. Phosphor, mihi) that, until I detected the remains of a second tail on each 

 hind-wing, I was strongly disposed to place the butterfly in the latter genus. 



I am indebted to Miss Fanny Bowker, of Pembroke, near King William's 

 Town, for the first specimen that I have seen ; it was taken by her on a low 

 shrub (a species of Eudea), on the border of a wood at Tharfield, in the 

 Division of Bathurst.^ 



A second example occurred in a collection formed by Mr. J. M. Hutchin- 

 son, shown to me in the year 1881 ; he informed me that he captured it on 

 the Bushman River in Natal 



Localities of Aphncvus pseudo-zeritis. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



h. Eastern Districts. — Tharfield, Bathurst District [Miss F. 

 Boivher). 

 E. Natal. 



b. Upper Districts. — Bushman River (/. M. Hutchinson). 



Genus CHRYSORYCHIA. 



Chrfjsorychia, Wallengr., KongL Svensk. Vetensk.-Akad. llaudl., 1S57,— 



Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 44. 

 Axiocerses, Hiibn., Verz. Bek. Schmett., p, 71 (18 16). 

 Zeritis [part], Trim., Rhop, Afr. Aust,, ii. p. 261 (1866). 



Imago. — ITead rather small, rather roughly hairy in front ; eyes 

 smooth ; j;rt/2-^i short, — second joint rather roughly hirsute and scaly, 

 especially towards extremity, — terminal joint short, scaly, moderately 

 slender, acuminate, obliquely ascendant ; antennce rather long, mode- 

 rately thick, with an elongated, cylindrical, but very pronounced club. 



Thorax robust, clothed above frontally, laterally, and posteriorly, 

 with close silky hair, and beneath with dense woolly hair. Fore- 

 loings rather produced apically and elbowed hind-marginally, espe- 

 cially in ^ ; costa slightly hollowed about middle ; costal nervure 

 ending about middle ; subcostal nervure with only three nervules, — 

 the iirst arising midway between base and extremity of discoidal 

 cell, — the second about midway between the first and extremity of 

 cell, — the third at a little beyond extremity of cell (having a com- 



^ About the same bush were several Zeritis CJiri/saor, Trimen ; and ^Ira. Barber informs 

 me that Ehenacecv, of the genus Eudea, are the plants most frequented by the sj^ccies of 

 Zeritis in the eastern districts of the Colony. 



