192 SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



217. (16.) Zeritis Wallengrenii, sj). nov. i 



^ 9 Zcritk Malaqrida (part), Trim., Rliop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 272, pi. 5, 

 f. z[$], 1SS6. 



Exp. ciL, Q) I in. 2-6 lin. ; ($) i in. 5^-8^ lin. 



$ Fuscous-ljlach, with a large dull-orange hasi-discal jMtch in each 

 wing ; bases rather tvidely tinged ivith fuscous-grey ; cilia fuscous-hlack, 

 with small hut conspicuous inter-nervular white interruptions. Forc- 

 iving : costa edged narrowly with greyish yellow-ochreous, wider near 

 base ; orange patch commencing near base, occupying lower part of 

 discoidal cell, covering median nervure and basal halves of its three 

 nervules, and extending narrowly to inner margin about middle; 'ex- 

 tremity of discoidal cell marked by a pale ochreous-yellow narrow spot 

 indenting the black above. Jlijid-wing : orange patch occupying 

 costa to about middle, and crossing to inner margin, near which, 

 beyond middle, it is usually confluent with a partly oblique sub- 

 marginal orange band commencing on third median nervule and end- 

 ing at anal angle ; projection at extremity of first median nervule short, 

 rather blunt, — that at anal angle much longer, slightly curved, rather 

 broad, rounded at tip, ochrey-yellow tinged with lake. Under side. — 

 Hind-wing and apiecd area and hind-marginal border of fore-ioing 

 yellow- or rinous-ochrcous, clouded with brownish between ncrvurcs,and ivith 

 numerous slender, mostly arrow-shaped, bright-silvery, very thinly blaclc- 

 cdgcd marl's. Fore-wing : costa narrowly bordered with ochreous, and 

 near base edged with whitish ; orange extends from base over whole of 

 cell and almost to hind-margin, fading into whitish all along inner 

 margin ; two small round black-edged silvery spots in discoidal 

 cell ; a larger one externally angulated at extremity of cell ; spots 

 of apical area arranged as in Argyrasjns, but the four spots 

 along hind-marginal portion sagittiform ; the lowest spot of these 

 four interiorly touches a round one which is the first of an oblique 

 row of three reaching to first median nervule (occasionally a fourth, 

 nearer base, very faintly indicated beneath that nervule) ; outwardly 

 bordering orange, between third median nervule and submedian ner- 

 vure, a row of three large suffused fuscous sub-sagittiform spots, with 

 silvery points externally. Hind-wing : neuration and a submarginal 

 ray paler than rest of area ; the following silvery markings, viz., a 

 narrow spot close to costa and base ; two opposedly sub-sagittiform 

 marks between costal and subcostal nervures ; two small I'ound spots 

 in discoidal cell ; a large superiorly-acuminate spot at extremity of 

 cell ; three or four small spots below cell ; a discal irregular row of 

 eight or nine variously shaped marks, of which the two respectively 

 between subcostal nervules and second and first median nervules are 

 opposedly sagittiform ; and a hind-marginal row, interrupted near 

 costa and near anal angle, of shai'ply- sagittiform marks resembling 



