200 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



ruary 1867 I took a ^ specimen of tlie Natal variation on a hillside near 

 Verulam, and Colonel Bowker has lately (1884-85) sent several examples of 

 both sexes found near Pinetown. The only Cape Town specimen I have seen 

 was taken by myself on 30th November 1862, 



Localities of Zcritis Aranda. 

 I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Cape Town. Knysna. 



b. Eastern Districts.— Fort Murray and Fort Hare, British Kaffraria 



(IF. >S'. M. n Urban), 

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



D. Kaffraria Proper.— Bashee River (/. H. Boiclier). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — Pinetown (/. H. Bowlcer). Yerulam. 

 ^ b. Upper Districts. — Riet Spruit, near Upper Umgeni ( W. Morant). 

 K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom and Lydenburg Districts {T. Aiji 



iret 



221. (20.) Zeritis Almeida, (Felder). 



(? Nats Almeida, Fekl., " Verb.' Zool.-Bot. GeselL Wien., xii. i, p. 478 

 (1862);" and Reise d. Novara, Lep., ii. p. 264, pi. xxxii. ff. 25, 26 

 (1865). 



S ? Zeritis Pierus,''^Tnm. [part], Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 274, n. 171 

 (1866). 



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



$ Barh orange-red, with very broad blackish-brown borders; bases 

 widely suffused ivith mixed ochrey -yellow and fuscous-grey ; cilia greyish 

 mixed with fuscous, at posterior angle of fore-wing slightly whitish. 

 Fore-iving : orange-red very restricted, commencing at about origin 

 of first median nervule, scarcely extending below submedian nervure 

 or above median nervure and its third nervule (except, rarely, at its 

 outer superior extremity, where a narrow projection sometimes reaches 

 subcostal nervure), and much narrowed inferiorly by broadening in- 

 ward of hind-marginal border from near posterior angle. Hind-uAng : 

 basal suffusion extending more or less along inner margin beyond 

 middle ; costal-apical patch very large, extending to base of third 

 (and sometimes of second) median nervule ; hind-marginal border very 

 narrow, sharply and regularly dentating orange between nervules ; 

 orange-red just enters extremity of discoidal cell. Under side. — 

 Hind-iving a7id border of fore-ivmg greyish or ferruginous-brou'ii {rarely 

 ]jU7'plish-laJce), the former with transverse roics of indistinct dark-edged 

 shining-grey or sub-metallic spots, and usucdly vjith more or less whitish 

 suffusion on disc. Fore-wing : costa near base thinly edged with white ; 

 ordinary black spots arranged as in Aranda, Wallengr., but very rarely 

 any silvery white-centred ones below median nervure ; last blackish 

 spot of submarginal row usually much suffused interiorly ; posterior 

 angle whitish ; an additional hind-marginal row of rather indistinct 

 elongate dark spots. Hind-wing : spots arranged as in Aranda, but 



