2o8 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



more constantly complete than in ^, where some of the middle spots 

 are often wanting. 



There is a sliglit approach in several examples (of both sexes) to 

 caudation of the hind-wing on first median nei'vule and submedian 

 nervure, and in specimens from Delagoa Bay (two ^ s, three $ s) this 

 tendency is more pronounced. 



Tliis near ally of Tdikosama is distinguished by its darker, more ashy 

 ground-colour of the upper side, with (in the $ constantly and in the $ occa- 

 sionally) 2XiHe-grey submarginal marking, which is always restricted (whether 

 grey or yellow) in the hind-wing to a narrow hind-marginal stripe ; by the 

 absence or slight development of any basal suftusion ; and on the under side 

 by the larger and brighter spots of the hind-wing, and the larger silvery-white 

 centres of the spots of the fore-wing. The under-side colouring is also 

 (especially in the $ ) much paler, and the spots of the third transverse row (all 

 but obsolete in the (J ) of the hind-wing are distinctly sagittiform instead of 

 rounded or sublunulate. The females in which the stripes are grey come from 

 Delagoa Bay, as well as one in which that of the fore- wing is half grey and 

 half yellow. 



Mr. Walter Morant was the first to bring this form to my notice, in the 

 year 1872 ; the two males he sent having been taken in the upper districts 

 of Natal in September 1870. Mr. J. M. Hutchinson and Colonel Bowker 

 have subsequently forwarded examples of both sexes from the same region ; 

 and I have received others from the Transvaal, collected by Mr. T. Ayres, and 

 from Delagoa Bay, taken by Mrs. Monteiro. 



Localities of Zcritis Orthnts. 



I. South Africa. 



E. Natal. 



h. Upper Districts. — Estcourt (/. M. Hutchinsoji). Bushman's River 

 and Colenso (TF. Morant). Between Tugela and Mooi Rivers 

 (/. H. Boivker). 



F. Zululand. — Napoleon Valley (J. H. Bowlier). 



H. Delagoa Bay. — Louren90 Marques [Mrs. Monteiro). 

 K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District (T. Ayres). 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



hi. Interior. — Tauwani River, near Bamangwato {F. C. Selous). 



226. (25.) Zeritis Barklyi, Trimen. 



(J $ Zeritis Barldyi, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud., 1874, p. 33S, pi. ii. 

 ff. 8, 9. 



Uxp. al., {$) I in. 4-4I lin. ; ($) i in. 4-5i lin. 



$ Pale silvery-grey, spotless. Fore-v.nng : an ill-defined, dull- 

 fuscous, macular or snbmacnlar, hind-marginal border, forming 

 rather a broad apical mark, but narrowing lower down, and usually 

 more or less interrupted by the ground-colour on nervules. Hind- 

 wing : an elongate, ill-defined, apical, fuscous marking lying between 

 first subcostal and radial nervules. Under side. — Hind-icing and 



