174 SOUTII-AFRICAX EUTTEEFLIES. 



205. (i.) Zeritis Lyncurium, Trimen. 



Tlate IX. figs. 3(c?), 3a(?)- 

 (J $ Zeritis Lyncurinni, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., iS6S, p. 86. 



Exp. al, ($) I ill.- — I in. ol liu- ; (?) i in. l-i lin. 



^ Metallic golden-red, with narrow hind-marginal hlach borders. 

 Fore-unng : base slightly blackish ; costa narrowly black to beyond 

 middle, where the edging widens to join hind-marginal black border, 

 which is broadest at apex, and the inner edge of which is irregularly 

 dentated with the ground-colour on median nervules ; a narrow black 

 spot at extremity of discoidal cell ; sometimes an indistinct sm,aller 

 spot in cell, usually from one to four spots representing a discal trans- 

 verse row. Hind-iring : base and costa broadly or very broadly 

 clouded with blackish ; in some specimens a faint, narrow, blackish 

 mark at extremity of discoidal cell ; hind-marginal border very 

 sharply indented on its inner edge with the ground-colour on ner- 

 vules. Under side. — Hind-wing and a narrow costal and apical 

 border of fore-wing pale creamy-ferruginous. Fore-ioing : discal row 

 of spots irregular, interrupted, — the sixth (lowest) spot situated, as in 

 ^thon, Trim., not beyond the fifth ; a submarginal row of five or six 

 small spots ; below median nerviire a short basal blackish suffusion, 

 succeeded by a black spot ; the following spots more or less marked 

 with glittering steely scales, viz., two in discoidal cell, one at extremity 

 of cell, two minute costal ones, first of discal row, and first three of sub- 

 marginal row. Hind-iving : the following inconspicuous darker mark- 

 ings, here and there edged interiorly by dull metallic scales, viz., a thin 

 terminal disco-cellular striola ; a spot in cell ; two spots between costal 

 and subcostal nervures, one before, the other about middle ; and an 

 irregular, interrupted discal macular row ; some red sufiusion along hind- 

 margin, varied by a very indistinct submarginal row of paler lunulate 

 marks. Cilia dull-grey, with nervular blackish interruptions. 



? Feder, less metedlic. Hind-u'lng : costal clouding considerably 

 narrower and paler ; red indentations of border more numerous and 

 deeper, almost reaching hind-marginal edge. Under side. — Hind- 

 wing and costal-apical border of fore-wing paler, yellower. Fore-umig : 

 steely scaling much duller and fainter, and in submarginal row of 

 spots wanting entirely. Ilind-wing : markings generally more distinct. 



From both Chnj.saor, Trim., and yEtlion, Trin:., this butterfly is distin- 

 guished by its smaller size, rather deeper red, comparatively broader hind- 

 marginal border, great imperfection of discal row of spots in the fore-wing, and 

 entire absence of that of hind-wing, and particularly by the hroad costal Hack 

 or blacJiish cIo7iding in hind-wing, of which latter no trace is found in either of 

 the species mentioned. On the under side, Lyncurium is decidedly nearer to 

 jEtlion than to Chrysaor, especially as regards the position of the lowest spot of 

 the discal row in the fore-wing, the extent of red and the slight development 

 of the metallic scaling in the same wing, and the nature and position of the 

 markincrs of the hind-wing. 



