238 Mr. R. Trimen on some neio or imperfectly- 



in the form of two short series of spots crossing the sub- 

 apical black area. 



Zeritis molomo, Trim. (Plate XIX, figs. 4, 4«.) 



Zeritis ^nolomo, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1870, p. 873, 

 pi. vi, f 9 (?) ; and S.-Afr. Butt, ii, p. 205 (1887). 



There are two corrections to be made in my published 

 accounts of this butterfly. In the first place the dubious 

 "^," noted in the first account and described in the second, 

 proved, on comparison with subsequent accessions, to be 

 actually an unusually small $ ; this error, however, fortun- 

 ately extended to the description of the upper-side 

 only, there being scarcely any difference in the scars as 

 regards the under-side. In the second place — also on the 

 study of fuller material — I now consider that the " Variety 

 A " described {op. cit. p. 206) should not be considered as a 

 form of Z. molomo, but as a variation of the allied Z. 

 damarensis, Trim. (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1891, p. 90, n. 

 76, pi. ix, f. 17 ($)). I therefore give here a new descrip- 

 tion of Z. molomo, chiefly from a series of eight examples of 

 each sex collected at Johannesburg, Transvaal, by Mr. 

 Feltham ; and below a description of the variation of Z. 

 damarensis previously treated as " Variety A " of ^. molomo, 

 from examples taken in northern and north-eastern Cape 

 Colony by Mr. Feltham, the late Colonel Bowker, Mr. 

 R. M. Lightfoot, and myself. 



Zeritis molomo, Trim. 



Exp. al. {$) 13—15 Im. ; (?) 13—17 Im. 



$ . Orange-yellow, with a very broad costal-apical and broad hind- 

 marginal fuscous border in fore-tving, and a moderately -broad costal- 

 apical fuscous patch and narrow hind-marginal fuscous edging in 

 hind-iving. Fore-wing : fuscous border beginning abruptly on costa 

 a good deal before middle, rapidly widening over all apical area, 

 and crossed, about midway between extremity of cell and apex, 

 by a transverse series of three more or less indistinct spots of the 

 ground-colour lying between subcostal nervure and third median 

 nervule ; hind-marginal border of about even breadth from 3rd 

 median nervule to posterior angle, but rather irregular on its in- 

 terior edge where there are usually slight nervular projections ; 

 orange-yellow paler on costal margin from base to beginning 

 of fuscous border. Hind-tving : costal-apical fuscous patch com- 

 mencing only a little before apex, confluent with hind-marginal 



