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C. Orange Free State. — Special locality not noted (TT'. Movant). 

 H. Delagoa Bay. — Lourenfo Marques {Mrs. Monteiro. — Var. A.) 

 K. Transvaal. — Special locality not noted {W. Movant). 



225. (24.) Zeritis Orthrus, Trimen. 



(J Zeritis Orthvus, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 1874, p. 340, pi. ii. 

 f. 10. 



Exp. al., {$) I i-^ lin. — i in. 2^ lin. ; ($) i iu. 1-5 lin. 



^ Fuscous-grey, with pale-grey sttbmarginal ma^'ldngs. Fore-wing : 

 costa narrowly clouded with pale-grey from base to near apex ; a trans- 

 verse submarginul stripe, ill-defined and somewhat dentated on its 

 edges, extending from costa to first median nervule ; usually a thin 

 terminal pale disco-cellular lunule. Hind-ioing : between radial ner- 

 vule and anal angle a narroiu, sharply-dcntated streak, of which the 

 outward dentations reach the hind-marginal edge upon the extremities 

 of the nervules. Cilia of the ground-colour irregularly varied with 

 pale-grey, chiefly between nervules. Under side. — Hind-wing and 

 costal, apical, and hind-7narginal border of fore-wing very pale creamy- 

 grey, with sub-metallic spots ; the markings generally almost identical loith 

 those of Z. Taikosama, Wallgrn. Fore-iving : the two spots before middle, 

 below median nervure and its first nervule, smaller and much more 

 indistinct than in Taikosama, the white centre often wanting in one or 

 the other of these spots ; the outer of the two submarginal rows of 

 spots better marked than in Ta'ikosama. Hind-wing : the third row of 

 spots {beyond middle) obsolete, only represented by some scarcely trace- 

 able darker clouding, mixed with a few sub-metallic scales ; a rather 

 well-marked hind-marginal row of pale fuscous sjDots ending with a 

 black spot at anal angle ; a little before the last-mentioned spot a 

 black dot. 



$ Like the $, but tvith the pale-grey stripe in fore-iving suffused and 

 indistinctly radiating along nervules to hind-margin ; or considerably 

 darker and browner, with the stripe in both wings ochre-yellow, tisually 

 more or less radiating in fore-wing. Fore-^ving : stripe varying much 

 in length, width, and distinctness, — in. one example grey superiorly and 

 ochre-yellow inferiorly, usually emitting more or less prolonged projec- 

 tions on nervules towards hind-margin ; terminal disco-cellular lunule 

 usually indistinct or obsolete. Hind-iving : hind-marginal stripe always 

 narrow, usually commencing on second, but sometimes on first, sub- 

 costal nervule ; the deep dark inter-nervular indentations along its outer 

 edge sometimes (as in Taikosama) forming distinct spots. Under 

 SIDE. — Always rather darker than in ^, and often more or less tinged 

 with ferruginous in hind-wing and along border of fore-wing. Hind- 

 wing : spots generally more distinct and shining, especially those of 

 third transverse row, which are more or less arrowhead-shaped and 

 form a pretty even series quite across wing ; preceding (median) row 



