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mentioned ariived from Colonel Bowker, and during the same and the follow- 

 ing months I had the pleasure of capturing numerous examples in the neigli- 

 bourliood of Grahamstown. It is a very obscure little species, and would 

 readily be passed over for one of the duller species of Lycsena. The first individual 

 I noticed Avas sitting on a flower of Acacia Iwrrida, but numerous others were 

 taken flitting about near the ground, among herbage and low shrubs. Colonel 

 Eowker's 'specimen was noted by him as taken " on the stony ground among 

 short grass and flowers, 14th December 1869." 



Localities of Zcritis Lcroma. 



I. South Africa. 



B, Cape Colony. 



b. Eastern Districts. — Grahamstown. 



c. Griqualand West. — Klipdrift, Vaal River (/. H . Bowker). Kim- 



berley (H. G. Smith ). 

 cl. Basutoland. — Vogel Vley, Jamnierberg {J. H. Bowl-er). 

 E. Xatal 



a. Coast Districts. — Pinetown (JF. Morant). D'Urban {the late M. 



J. M'Ken). 

 h. U])per Districts. — Estcourt, (/. M. Hidcldnson). Colenso (TF. 

 Morant). Valley of Mooi and Tugela Rivers {J. II. Bowker). 

 K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District {T. Ayres). 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical 



a. Western Coast. — " Daniaraland {De Vylder)." — Auriviilius. 



203. (2.) Zeritis Zeuxo, (Linnasus). 



Papilio Zeuxo, Linn., Mus. Lud. Ulr. Reg., p. 331, n. 149 (1764); and 



Syst. Xat., i. 2, p. 789, n. 231 (1767). 

 ^ 9 Zeritis Zeuxo, Trim., Rhojx Afr. Aust., ii. p. 262, n. 162, pi. 5, f. 2 

 [c?](i866). 



Uxp. al., I in. — i in. 2 lin. 



$ Metallic golihm-orange, xoitli a slight basal fuscous siiffusion, and 

 spotted with Hack ; a hind-marginal blackish border, broad and even in 

 fore-v:ing, narrow and dentated in hind-icing. Forc-iving : a small 

 spot in cell ; an elongate spot closing cell, with a small costal spot 

 a little above and beyond it ; an irregular discal transverse row of 

 seven spots, of which the first three are usually confluent, and the two 

 last (just above submedian nervure) rarely so ; costa slightly fuscous- 

 clouded ; usually a dot before middle below cell. Hind-wing : spots 

 similarly arranged, but none in cell or just below it; a submarginal 

 row of lunular spots, near costa confluent with hind-marginal border ; 

 costa and inner margin fuscous-clouded. Under side. — Hind-iving 

 and border of fore-wing (except inner margin) brownish-grey. Fore- 

 wing : yellowish-orange, not metallic ; an additional dot on costa before 

 middle, and another in cell at base ; all spots above median nervure 

 and its third branch centred with glistening-steely ; spot below cell 



