LYC.EXID.E. 163 



(J $ Zeritis Croesus, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3rd Ser., i. p. 283 



(1862). 

 (J $ Chrysopliamis Perion, Ilopff., Peters' Reisen. Mossamb., — Ins., p. 403, 



pi. xxvi. ff. 1-3 (1862). 

 $ $ Zeritis Perion, Trim, [part], Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 267, n. 166 



(1866). 



Exii. al, ($) I in. — i iu 3 lin. ; ($) I in. 2-3 lin. 



^ Bed, inclining to orange, not hrilliant ; ivith shining hrown- 

 hlackish horders. Forc-iring : base suffused with brown-blackish ; bor- 

 der wide along costa and hind-margin, and very broad in apical 

 region (almost reaching extremity of discoidal cell) ; two spots in cell, 

 and a quadrate one closing it, all touching costal border, and dark- 

 brown ; two similar spots between second and first median nervules, 

 one just beneath extremity of cell, the other more or less incorporate 

 with hind-marginal border (a spot above, and rarely another below, this 

 latter spot, touching it, sometimes separable from border) ; cilia narrow, 

 white, interrupted with brown. Hind-iving : costa from base widely, 

 hind-margin very narrowly, bordered ; a fuscous streak closing cell ; a 

 sub-marginal row of blackish lunular marks, more or less distinct ;^ 

 anal angle 2^^'O'niincntlg lohcd, ferruginous-red, marked with a gilded 

 dot, hearing a sJiort, slightly twisted, acute tail of the same hue, white- 

 tipped, on submedian nervure. Cilia mingled greyish and ferruginous. 

 Undek side. — Fore-wing : dull orange-yellow, very pale on inner 

 margin ; border varying from cinereous to ferruginous-brown ; spots 

 in and bordering discoidal cell, transverse row of spots beyond middle, 

 and row of four dots on costa, all with large, brilliant, greenish-golden 

 centres ; below median nervure, a large, dull-black, whitish-centred, 

 often gold-dotted spot ; a whitish, gold-dusted streak along bend of 

 costal edge at base ; a sub-marginal row of golden dots, sometimes 

 indistinct. Hind-iving : varies in tint like border of fore-wing ; three 

 transverse rows of small golden spots, some of which ai*e indistinct, the 

 middle row including a golden streak closing cell ; a dark-brown trans- 

 verse shade near hind-margin, ending on inner margin with a golden 

 streak, and often mai'ked externally with some indistinct golden dots ; 

 a pale hind-marginal edging becomes golden near anal angle. 



^ Dull orange-yellow ; Irown borders paler, narrower. Fore- wing : 

 base more widely suffused with brown, mingled with ochreous ; apical 

 border not half as wide as in $ ; spots in and about cell larger ; 

 beyond middle, a zigzag row of small, quadrate, blackish spots across 

 wing. Hind-wing : base dark-brown to extremity of discoidal cell ; 

 costa broadly bordered ; hind-margin edged with a brown line ; sub- 

 margilnal lunular row well marked, the lunules contiguous ; a more or 

 less incomplete row of small spots a little beyond middle, like that iu 

 fore-wing. Under side. — Quite like that of ^ ; rather paler ; spots 

 larger, the gilding slightly paler but not less brilliant. 



^ In three Natalian sijecimeiis this marking i.s altogether wanting. 



