176 SOUTII-AFRICAX EUTTERFLIES. 



the liincl-wiugs, while on the under side the brilliant metallic spots of 

 CJiri/saor nxe scarcely iiidicated in the fore-wings, and the duller ones 

 of the hind-wings wanting. From Z. Lyncurium it differs on the upper 

 side in its paler colouring, well-marked discal row of spots, and narrower 

 liind-marginal border iu the fore-wings, and entire want of the broad 

 hasal, and espcciaUy costal, fuscous elouding in the liind-uAngs ; but on 

 the under side is very similar, differing chiefly in the discal row of 

 spots in the fore-wings beiug much more regular.'^ 



The above description is made from the only example that I have seen, 

 which Avas taken by Mr. Walter Morant near the ]\Iooi Eiver, in Natal, on the 

 15th September 1870. 



I believe it to be a $ , but cannot decide, the first pair of legs being absent. 



Locality of Zcritis Lyccgeiics. 



I. South Africa. 

 E. Natal. 



b. Upper Districts.— Mooi River (IT^. Morant). 



207. (6.) Zeritis -ffithon, sjy. nov. 

 Plate IX. fig. 4 ( ? )• 



Rvj). al, Q) I in. 2 lin. ; ($) i in. 3 lin. 



$ Metallic golden-red, deeper than in Chrgsaor, spotted and narrowly 

 bordered with hlack Fore-wing : hind-marginal border rather broader 

 than in Chrysaor, its inner edge more regularly and deeply indented 

 with the ground-colour on nervules ; terminal disco-cellular spot and 

 spots of discal row larger and much broader ; the latter arranged as in 

 Chrysaor, with the exception of the sixth (lowest) spot, which is minute 

 and immediately helow, not beyond, the fifth. Hind-wing : hind-marginal 

 border rather broader ; discal row of spots very differently arranged, — 

 the first (upper-most) spot being isolated from the others and considerably 

 nearer orioin of first subcostal nervule than in Chrysaor, — the second 

 much nearer termination of that nervule, and with the third and fourth 

 forming a nearly straight transverse row as far as third median nervule, 

 — the fifth and seventh wanting, and the sixth minute but occupying the 

 same position (between first and second median nervules) as in Clirysaor. 

 Under side. — Hind-wing and narrow apiccd horder of fore-wing ixde 

 creaviy-ferruginous. Forc-uing : — Pale orange-yellow almost to costal 

 edge (which has an almost linear border of pale creamy-ferruginous), 

 and quite to hind-margin below second median nervule ; a slender dark- 

 red line on extreme edge of hind-margin ; all the spots very much 

 thinner than above ; two spots in cell reduced to mere dots, and spot 

 beneath cell very small ; an incomplete submarginal row of very small 



1 In this latter feature, L}jccfjcncs differs from both the species named as well as from th 

 allied Z. ^-Ethon, Trim., the three lower spots being almost in a straight line. 



