i8o SOUTH-AFRICAX BUTTERFLIES. 



Localities of Zcritis I'hosphor. 



1. South Africa. 



T). Kaffraria Proper. Tsomo and Basliee Rivers (/. //, Bowlier). 



210. (9.) Zeritis Pyroeis, Trimeu. 



$ 9 Zeritis Pyroeis, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3rd Ser., ii. p. 178 

 (1864); and Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 264, n. 164, pi. 5, f. i [ cj ] 

 {1866). 



Exp. (iL, Q) I in. — I in. 3 lin. ; ($) i in. 3-4^ lin. 



Orange-yelloio, not metallic, ivith hlacJc spots; base of hath wings 

 'broadly blackisli and densely blue-seeded; hind-ioiny of ^ riehly shot 

 with a shifting bhie lustre. Fore-wing : costa and hind-margin bordered 

 with black ; costal border broadest near base, where it is powdered 

 with fulvous-ochreous, but usually much narrowed beyond middle ; hind- 

 marginal border very regular, of even width, very slightly crenelated 

 on inner edge ; just beyond basal clouding a small round spot in dis- 

 coidal cell, a longer quadrate spot closing cell ; beyond middle an 

 irregular row of six spots, of which the three first form a continuous 

 costal stripe, the fourth is nearer base, the fifth in a line beneath the 

 three first, and the sixth (above submedian nervure) in a line beneath 

 the fourth. Hind-iving : a row of six spots as in fore-wing, except 

 that the three first spots are more separate, — in 1^ the first spot is 

 almost merged in costal blackish band, which is wider than in ^ ; on 

 hind-margin a row of black arches (sharper in ^) intersecting the 

 ground-colour between nervules, which carry the orange to edge ; 

 closing cell is a black streak usually merged with basal clouding. 

 Cilia fuscous mixed with white ; in hind- wing mingled with red. 

 Under side. — Costet and apex of fore-iving and whole of hind-iving pah 

 creamy-ferruginous. Fore-wing : two cellular spots and first spot of 

 transverse row silver- centred ; a third black dot near base in cell, 

 and another (silver-centred) on costa beyond cell ; beneath central 

 spot of cell a good-sized rounded spot below submedian nervure ; close 

 and parallel to hind-margin a row of fuscous spots, indistinct near 

 costa. Hind-wing : often almost spotless ; a pale glistening line clos- 

 ing cell ; near it, towards inner margin, a pale dot ; a submarginal 

 row of pale dots, sometimes replaced by a faint reddish line ; transverse 

 discal row sometimes represented by spots barely distinguishable from 

 ground-colour except by their fusco-ferruginous outlines. 



Erom its allied congeners, Z. Zeuxo and Z. Clirysaor, milii, this species is 

 at once distinguished by its blue-glistening basal patches, while its entire out- 

 line of Avings and plainly-tinted luider surface preclude its being mistaken 

 for the angulated Z. Tliyshe, Linn. In the two species first named, also, the 

 ground-colour is metallic, strikingly so in Chri/saor. The width and evenness 

 of the hind-marginal border of the fore-wings resemble the corresponding features 

 in Zeuxo, Linn. 



