172 SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



large ; a very faint sulDinarginal row of spots, the two about its middle 

 dimly steely-scaled. Hind-wing : spots indistinct, but little paler than 

 ground-colour, indicated by their dark edges ; a row of three before 

 middle ; a discal row of eight sub-lunulate spots ; two indistinct lunu- 

 lar submarginal streaks, of which the outer one is more strongly 

 marked and interrupted. 



$ Like the ^, but paler and not quite so metallic ; basal fuscous 

 suffusion rather wider. 



Three specimens which I took at Blaauwberg in the Cape District in 

 October 1878 are smaller and duller than tliose found in the more immediate 

 vicinity of Cape Town, and have a costal blackish border in the fore-wing, 

 besides a broader basal suffusion and hind-marginal border in both wings. 



The fore-wings of this bright little species are both in colouring and 

 pattern very like those of the abundant European Ghryso2:)lianus Phlceas, the 

 "Small Copper" of English collectors. Its range seems to be extremely 

 limited, and I am not aware of its occurrence beyond the Cape District. It 

 is, moreover, very local, liaunting almost exclusively the leaves and flowers of 

 a tall, slu'ubby, thick-leaved Scnecio, which flourishes about the rough broken 

 slopes and rocky "kopjes" near Cape Town, but grows in rather detached 

 groups in certain spots only. I feel pretty sure that the larva must feed on 

 this plant, but mucli searching has not resulted in its discovery. The butter- 

 fly is usually numerous where it occurs, and easily captured. October and 

 November are its favourite montiis, but I have met with it from September to 

 January. 



Localities of Zcritis Zcuxo. 



I. South Africa, 



B. Cape Colony. — Cape Town. Blaauwberg, Cape District. 



204. (3.) Zeritis Chrysaor, Trimen. 



Plate IX. fig. 2 {$). 



Zeritis Chrysaor, Trim., Trans. Ent. See. Loud., 3rd Ser., ii. p. 177 (1864) ; 

 and Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 263, n. 163 (1866). 



Uxp. al., 10 lin. — i in. 2 lin. 



Glittering golden-orange ; s2)ots arranged much as in ZcuxOjhut visually 

 smaller and more distinct (the submarginal row of hind-wing wholly 

 wanting) ; hind-marginal harder much narroirer (in fore-wing widest at 

 apex, in hind-iving macular or nearly so, being sharply indented 

 interiorly on nervules). Ilind-wing : a dot or short linear mark 

 at end of cell ; no costal clouding. Under side. — Hind-unng, and 

 costa at base unth ajncal area of fore-wing, varying from pale creamy- 

 ockreous to pale ferruginons-ochreous. Fore-ioing : spots arranged as in 

 Zeuxo, but filled with more glittering silvery, the whole (except dots 

 of submarginal row) usually metallic- centred, but sometimes only those 

 near costa. Hind-iving : spots small, slightly glistening, arranged as 

 in Zeiixo, but less distinct ; on hind-margin of paler specimens (usually 

 $ s) some ferruginous clouding ; anal-angular projection more acute 

 than in Zcuxo. 



