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acuter inferiorly, edged interiorly with red and preceded by a wliitish 

 streak. Cilia greyish or vinous-greyisli, with white inter-nervular inter- 

 ruptions. 



$ Duller and paler. Fore-wing : basal area more decidedly tinged 

 with ochrey-yellow ; a rather suffused macular orange ray from sub- 

 costal nei"vure near apex joining discal orange on third median nervule. 

 Hincl-icing : basal and inner-marginal area much suffused with ochrey- 

 yellow ; orange band less macular, more continuous, not so dentated by 

 nervules, suffused on its inner edge. Under side. — As in $. Hind- 

 iving : discal macular silvery streak more completely interrupted on 

 first and second subcostal nervules. 



A $ sent to me from the Transvaal by Mr. David Arnot is considerably 

 larger than usual, expanding 2 in. 7 lin. ; the orange of the fore-wing, and to 

 a rather less extent that of the hind-wing, is extended basewards and mingled 

 imperceptibly with the ochrey-yellow suffusion, and the silvery markings of 

 the under side are much enlarged and conspicuously whiter than usual. 



The fore-wing in Malarjrida has scarcely any trace of hind-marginal sub- 

 apical prominence in the $ , and none at all in the $ . This, together with 

 its smaller size, very restricted field of orange in both wings, and the continuous 

 and comparatively regular course of the discal silvery streak on the under side 

 of the hind-wings, readily distinguish it from its allies WaUengrenii and Argij- 

 raspis, Trim. It is also very noticeable that the anal-angular projection of 

 the hind-wing is very short, and that on first iiiedian nervule scarcely per- 

 ceptible. 



I first met with this sjDecies in March 1S60 on the Lion's Hill at Cape 

 Town, mistaking the first example for a brightly-marked Thijra, Linn., as it 

 pitched on the ground or on stones. It is extremely local, but numerous about 

 its special haunts. Though tolerably swift on the wing, it is not easily roused, 

 and never flies for more than a few yards at a time ; it almost always settles 

 on the ground, and I have taken several examples with my fingers. It seems 

 to be strictly a late summer butterfly, as I have not met with it before the 

 beginning of February or after the end of March. 



Localities of Zeritis Malagrida. 



I. South Africa. 



B. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Cape Town. 

 K. Transvaal. — Locality not noted {D. Arnot). 



219. (18.) Zeritis Thyra, (Linna3us). 

 Plate IX. fig. 5(9). 



S Pap)iUo Thyra, Liiui., Mas. Lud. Ulr, Reg., p. 329, n. 147 (1764); 



and Syst. Xat., i. 2, p. 789, n. 227 (1767). 

 cj Papilio Nycetus, Cram., Pap. Exot., iv. pi. ccclxxx, if. P, g. 

 Papilio Evadrus, Fab.,'Mant. Ins., p. 89, n. 806 (1787); and {Ilesperia 



Evadrus) Ent. Syst., iii. i, p. 343, n. 306 (1793). 

 $ Aloeides TJtyra, Hiibn., Samml. Exot. Schmett., ii. pi. 2>Z (? 1S06). 



