LYC^NID.35. 203 



This is by far, the commonest Zeritis about Cape Town, usually making 

 its appearance early in October, and remaining out till the end of April. In 

 1870 I saw a specimen on the wing as early as the 9th September. It is to 

 be noticed everywhere on dry open spots, especially frequenting pathways, and 

 sitting so close as almost to be trodden on by the passing foot. Both sexes 

 present rather a dull appearance when taking their very short flight, but the male 

 looks particularly dingy. The under-side colouring so resembles the soil as to 

 be an excellent protective disguise when the butterfly is at rest. The only 

 specimen I took at Knysna is a (^ with a larger orange patch than usual on 

 the upper side of both wings, and with the brown borders of the spots on the 

 under side of the hind- wing unusually broad. ^ 



Localities of Zrritis Pieriis. 



I. South Africa. 



B. Cape Colony. 



a. "Western Districts. — Cape Town. Wellington. Stellenbosch. 

 Vogel Yley, Tulbagh District. Eobertson. Swellingdam {A. 

 C. Harrison). 

 h. Eastern Districts. — Port Elizabeth. Uitenhage (/. //. BoivJcer 

 and S. D. Bairstoio). Between Zwartkops and Coega Eivers, 

 Uitenhage District (/, H. BoivJcer). King "William's Town (1}' 

 S. M. U Urban). Between Somerset East and Murraysburg 

 (/. //. Boidcer). 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — Bashee River {J. H. BoicJier). 



223. (22.) Zeritis Taikosama, (Wallengren). 



? Ci/r/arit is TaiJcosama, Wallengx.jK. Sv. Yet.-Akad, Handl, 1S57, — Lep. 



Rhop. Caffr., p. 43. 

 ^ ? Zeritis Pienis, Var. B. [part], Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 275 



(1866) ; and Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1870, p. 372, 



Uxj?. al., ($) II lin. — i in. i^- lin. ; ($) i in. — i in. 4 lin. 



Very closely allied to Piei'us, Cram. 



^ Brownish-grey, paler, and with a faint glistening-yelloiu suffusion 

 over hasal area ; a narroiv discal, macidar, pale, dtdl orange-yellow streak 

 in fore-wing, and a similar larger hind-marginal marhing in hind-wing ; 

 cilia greyish, indistinctly interrupted with fuscous on nervules. Fore-%ving : 

 pale, dull, orange-yellow streak narrow, submacular, lying between sub- 

 costal nervure and first median nervule, paler and less distinct in its 

 superior portion, sometimes wholly very indistinct, and rarely quite obso- 

 lete. Hind-u-ing : hind-marginal pale, dull, orange-yellow markings, 

 almost as variable in extent of development as the streak of fore-wing, 

 sometimes all but obsolete, but when fullest developed forming a mode- 

 rately broad band between radial nervule and anal angle, rather sharply 

 indented with fuscous exteriorly between nervules. Under side. — Hind- 

 iving and hordcr of fore-wing greyish or rcddish-hrown, the former with 



1 In a series of examples taken by Colonel Bowker between Somerset East and Murrays- 

 burg, there are gradations of the S in which the orange of the fore-wing on the upper side 

 varies from a few scales only to a patch almost as large as in Almeida <S . 



