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marginal border broadest near costa, its inner edge irregularly but 

 deeply dentated with ground-colour on nervules. Under SIDE. — Hind- 

 loing, and costal edge and narrow apical and hind-marginal horder of 

 fore-iuing, pale-grey varied tcith tvhitish ; in both loings some glittering 

 pale-golden spots. Fore-iving : orange fading into pale-yellowish on 

 inner margin ; a submarginal row of six small black spots, of which 

 the upper three are more or less filled with golden scaling ; first spot 

 of discal row, two small costal spots before it, terminal disco-cellular 

 spot, and two additional spots in discoidal cell, all filled with pale- 

 golden scaling ; below median nervure a blackish spot ; a hind-mar- 

 ginal row of indistinct whitish lunules, commencing with that at apex. 

 Hind-toing : the following pale-golden brownish- edged spots, viz., three 

 in discoidal cell — first (minute) at base, second (larger) midway, third 

 (large) at extremity ; two near base — one just below costal, the other 

 just below m.edian nervure ; nine forming a regular submarginal row — 

 the third and fourth conspicuously clouded with dark-brown ; a rather 

 irregular discal row of nine whitish-grey spots, of which the first, 

 second, eighth, and ninth are more or less marked with pale-golden 

 scales \ several whitish subquadrate marks interspersed between the 

 golden spots ; hind-marginal lunules as in fore-wing, that next anal 

 angle largest, interiorly edged with dark-brown. Dark part of cilia 

 mixed with grey. 



This very distinct species appears on the whole to be nearer to Z. Pijroeis, 

 Trim., than to any otlier member of the genus, resembhng it in the absence of 

 metallic lustre in the orange of the upper side, the shape of the wings, and the 

 arrangement of the under-side markings ; but also diifering conspicuously in 

 its total want of any basal blue on the upper side, and possession of golden 

 spots on the under side of the hind-Avings, and of cilia black and white instead 

 of almost uniform greyish. The defective or obsolete condition of the discal 

 spots on the upper side of the hind-wings reminds one of Z. Lyncurium, Trim., 

 but it is not at all like the latter in other respects. 



I have seen only two exam})les— both $ — of this beautiful little Zeritis. 

 The first (on which I founded the species in 1868) was found at Murra3'sburg 

 in the Cape Colony by Dr. and Mrs. Muskett, avIio sent it to me in July 1864, 

 Tlie other I had the good fortune to capture on August 20, 1873, at the very 

 distant locality of Oograbies, in Little Namaqualand. It was very active and 

 wary, settling sometimes on tlie ground, and sometimes on a shrubby Mesem- 

 hrganthemum, with small white flowers, at the opening of a dry ravine. It for 

 a long time eluded my pursuit, as I lost sight of it altogether for more than an 

 hour, much to my disappointment at the time, as I liad at the first glance 

 recognised it as the hitherto unique Ghrysajitas. This Namaqualand example 

 is a little smaller than the Murraysburg one, and has the under-side markings 

 all less distinct, but presents an imperfect discal row of spots on the upper side 

 of the hind-wings. 



Localities of Zeritis Chrijsantas. 



I. South Africa. 

 13. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Oograbies, Namaqualand. 

 h. Eastern Districts. — Murraysburg {Mrs. Musliett). 



