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Family LYCENID^. 

 Genus Zeritis. 



Zeritis FcUhami, n. sp. (Plate XIX, figs. 2, 2a.) 



Exp. al. ((?) lOi— 13^ lin. ; ( ? ) 12^—13^ lin. 



Nearly allied to Z. zeuxo (Lian.) and Z. chrysaor (Trim.). ^. 

 Suh-inetallic reddish-orange, tvith a common disced series of black spots ; 

 fore-iviny with a tnoderatehj-hroad hind-margined black border, con- 

 taining externalhj a series of more or less developed spots of the ground- 

 colour; hind-unng with an almost hind-marginal series of completely- 

 separated black spots. Fore-wing : a rather large elongate-sub- 

 quadrate terminal disco-cellular black spot ; in 8 out of 15 specimens, 

 a much smaller black spot, variable in size and shape, just below 

 second subcostal nervule ; sometimes (in .5 specimens) a small 

 black spot, variable in size and distinctness, before middle, below 

 and near origin of first median nervule ; spots of discal series 

 five, somewhat rounded, of moderate size, the upper three con- 

 tiguous and forming a short curved irregular sub-apical narrow bar, 

 and the fourth and fifth separate, placed obliquely (the fifth beyond 

 the fourth) above and below second median nervule respectively ; in 

 five examples also an inferior smaller sixth discal spot, very variable 

 in size and distinctness, situated before the fifth spot and below first 

 median nervule ; base very narrowly blackish except for a slight 

 extension on inner-margin ; hind-marginal black border wider apic- 

 ally, where it emits inwardly a black costal streak (more or less 

 mixed with the orange ground-colour) touching first spot of discal 

 series and sometimes the small spot preceding it ; the border very 

 rarely quite reaching posterior angle, becoming obsolete, or attenu- 

 ated to a jjoint, above submedian nervure, its inner edge rather 

 irregular and usually emitting inwardly very short linear nervular 

 streaks ; the spots of the ground-colour in external series are seven, 

 close to hind-margin, inter-nervular, thin, variable in develop- 

 ment (first and second sometimes indistinct), being occasionally so 

 enlarged as to form a sub-macular streak crossed only by black 

 nervular lines, — the last spot incompletely separated from orange 

 ground-colour. Hind-icing : base more widely blackish than in 

 fore-wing ; blackish suffusion prolonged somewhat widely along 

 inner-margin to considerably beyond middle, where it narrows to a 

 point ; a terminal disco-cellular linear or sub-linear black streak, 

 very variable in development — wanting in four examples ; seven 

 spots (very variable in size, and the 5th and 7th frequently 

 and the 1st sometimes wanting) in discal series, of which the 

 upper four form a nearly straight row between costa and third 



