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Tins species "was discovered l)y Colonel Eowker near the River Tsomo in 

 December 1864. In that month and in the following Januarj' he captured a 

 good many specimens, but only in two spots, " flitting about stunted bushes 

 growing between rocks x:pon a lofty hill ridge." No other examples have 

 come under my notice. 



Locality of Zerltis Lyncurium. 



I. South Africa. 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo River (./. //. Boiclier). 



206, (5.) Zeritis Lycegenes, Trimen. 



$ C?). Zerltis Lycegenes, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1S74, p. 337, pi. ii. 

 f. 7. 



Ex}}. al., I i^ lin. 



^ (?). Br'ujlit suh-mdallic orange-red, Mnd-marginaUy edged loith 

 llach ; fore-icing only tcith black sjwts. Foor-iving : an elongate, sub- 

 ovate spot at extremity of discoidal cell ; an indistinct smaller spot 

 below cell, close to origin of first median nervule ; beyond middle a 

 row of sis spots, of which the first three (between costa and third 

 median nervule) are farther from the base than the other three (be- 

 tween third median nervule and submedian nervure) ; costa narrowly 

 edged with blackish, widening at apex ; hind -marginal edging narrow, 

 with slight projections between the nervules. Hind-wing : no spots or 

 other markings, except the hind-marginal edging, which emits promi- 

 nent inter- nervular projections. Cilia long, dull brownish-grey, very 

 slightly mixed with whitish. Under side. — Hind-wing and basal, 

 costal and apical border of fore-wing, pale greyish-ochreous. Fore-iving : 

 besides markings of upper side (of which the spot below cell is con- 

 spicuous), there are two cellular spots, of which that nearer base is 

 minute ; two costal dots above and beyond the spot closing cell ; and 

 a submarginal row of four small sub-lunulate spots between lower 

 radial nervule and submedian nervure (traces of two spots commencing 

 this row are just visible in the apical ochreous). Hind-wing: five 

 small indistinct round brown spots in basal region, viz., two close to 

 costa (one near base, the other about middle), one in discoidal cell, one 

 (elongate) closiug cell, and one between first median nervule and sub- 

 median nervure ; a little beyond middle, a transverse, irregular, sub- 

 macular brown streak, not parallel to hind-margin, extending from near 

 apex to submedian nervure ; a submarginal, very indistinct, deeply- 

 festooned, brownish streak, touching the submacular streak on sub- 

 costal nervules. 



This little Zeritis is in character intermediate between Z. Chrysaor, 

 Trim., and Z. Lyncurium, Trim. From the former it is separable 

 by its smaller size, less metallic upper side, different arrangement of 

 the discal row of spots in the fore-wings, and total n-ant of spots in 



