230 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



235. (2.) Arrugia brachycera, Trimen. 



Plate IX. fig. 7 (<$). 



Zeritis Protunmns, Trim, [part], Rhop. Afi-. Aust., ii. p. 279 obs. (1866). 

 Arrugia hracltycera, Trim., Trans, Ent. Soc. Loud., 1883, p. 353. 



Exp. al, (^) I in. 4-6 lin. ; ($) i in. 7-9 lin. 



$ Dull fuscous-grey tvith a slight ochraceous tinge ; in both wings a 

 blackish terminal disco-cellular spot and row of cliscal spots (indistinct in 

 hind-wing). Fore-wing : hind-marginal area beyond discal spots darker 

 than basal area ; disco-cellular spot rather small, ill-defined inwardly ; 

 between it and discal spots a dull suffused space of pale dingy-grey 

 tinged with ochraceous, radiating on the basal portion of the three 

 median nervules ; spots of discal row ill- defined, the first four con- 

 fluent and forming a moderately broad costal bar as far as third 

 median nervule, — the other four small, indistinct, separate, in a row 

 incliuing inwardly, between third median nervule and submedian 

 nervure. Hind-wing : disco-cellular lunule, and median discal curved 

 row of three or four spots indistinct or almost obsolete. Cilia dull- 

 white, with rather narrow fuscous interruptions at extremities of ner- 

 vules. Under side. — Hind-wing and apex of fore-wiru] dull hoary- 

 grey. Fore-uiing : basal area whitish-grey, scarcely separable from 

 discal suffused space, which is dingy-whitish and much more ex- 

 tensive than on upper side, forming a band beyond the discal row 

 of spots ; this row and the disco-cellular spot are very distinctly 

 defined on the pale ground-colour ; near base, two less distinct small 

 fuscous spots, one in cell, the other below it ; outwardly edging discal 

 dingy-whitish band, a row of somewhat ill- defined fuscous sagittate 

 marks ; hind-marginal border pale-brownish from a little below apex. 

 Hind-wing: disco-cellular spot (irregularly reniform), and chain-like, 

 almost regular discal row of spots, very pale brownish, with a thin 

 dark -brown edging line (stronger on inner edge of row), relieved ex- 

 ternally by a thin white line ; in basal area, the traces of two highly 

 irregular transverse rows of broken-up pale-brownish spots, of which 

 the first and last spots of the outer row are least indistinct ; parallel 

 to and not far from hind-margin an almost obsolete row of minute 

 black sub-sagittiform spots ; hind-marginal border clouded with pale- 

 brownish. 



$ Rather paler and slightly more ochraceous. Fore-wing : discal 

 pale space less obscure, not radiating on median nervules, but extend- 

 ing more or less distinctly beyond discal row of spots. Hhid-ioing : 

 spots not quite so indistinct. Under side. — Hind-wing and apex of 

 fore- wing less hoary, more brownish-grey. Hind-wing : spots of basal 

 area (except first and last of outer row) altogether obsolete; sagitti- 

 form spots of submarginal row much larger and more distinct. 



Variety $. — Fxp. al. i in. 2-3-|- lin. 



Darker than type-form. Fore-ioing : no paler discal space ; blackish 



