1 86 SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



Localities of Zeritis ralmus. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Cape Town. Eerste River, iSToord Hoek, and 

 Simon's Town, Cape District. Paarl. Robertson. Swellendam 

 (L. Taats). Kn3^sna. Plattenberg Bay. 

 h. Eastern Districts. — Burghersdorp {D. R. Kannemeyer). 

 d. Basutoland. — Maseru (/. H. Bowlier). 



214. (13.) Zeritis Thero, (Linnasus). 



'^\Papilio Tliero, Linn., Mus. Lud. Ulr. Reg., p. 32S, n. 146 (1764); and 



Syst. Nat., i. 2, \x 787, n. 219 (1767). 

 Papilio Rumina, Dru., 111. Nat. Hist., i. pi. ii. fF. i, i (1770). 



$ Papilio Salmoneus, Cram., Pap. Exot., iv. pi. cccxli. if. v, e (1782). 

 Papilio Erosine, Fab., Mant. Ins., ii. p. 51, n. 506 (1787). 

 Papilio Pulshis, Herbst., Nat. Bek. Ins., — Sclimett., vi. pi. 156, fF. 6, 7 



(1793)- 

 $ 9 Polyommatus Thero, Godt., Enc. Metli., ix. p. 662, n. 154 (1819). 

 Zerytliis Thero, Clienu, Enc. d'Hist. Nat., Pap., i. f. 351 {1852). 

 c? ? Zeritis Thero, Trim., Rbop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 276, n. 172 (1866). 



Exp. al., ($) I in. 4I-8 liu. ; ($) i in. 8 lin. — 2 in. 



$ Dark-hrovm., tvith orange-red sjwts ; bases rather widely scaled 

 with orange-ochreons ; hind-wing with two tails, a rather long acute 

 one on submedian nervure, and a shorter one on first median nervule ; 

 cilia whitish, with wide brown interruptions at ends of nervules. Fo7'e- 

 loing : spots subquadrate ; one in cell, and another just beyond it; a 

 discal row of five parallel to hind-margin (of which the first three are 

 smaller and sometimes indistinct) between fourth subcostal and third 

 median nervules ; below first median, rather before middle, the largest 

 spot in wing. Hind-wing : a submarginal row of four broad lunular 

 spots between discoidal nervule and submedian nervure (the first, and 

 sometimes the second, and even the third also, occasionally obsolete), 

 of which the last, as well as anal-angular lobe, is marked with a pale 

 greyish- edged black spot. Under side. — Hind-wing and horders of 

 fore-wing, soft-grey clouded vnth Irown. Fore-wmig : orange-red; two 

 silvery-white centred black spots in cell, and a third, larger, closing it ; 

 spots of discal row more or less confluent, the first four (there being 

 an additional costal one) dimly white-centred ; a spot on either side 

 of origin of first median nervule ; midway between discal row and hind- 

 margin, a parallel submacular suffused fuscous stripe, outwardly mixed 

 with ferruginous. Hind-'wing : central area brown ; the following 

 silvery-white markings, sometimes with ferruginous edges, viz., a small 

 "spot near base, just below costal nervure; a transverse row of four 

 before middle, of which the second (in cell) is large and elongate ; 

 closing cell, a large irregular marking, emitting a broad rag along dis- 



