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narrow fuscous edging as far as radial nervule, but thence separate, 

 suddenly narrowing, and becoming macular and indistinct to its 

 termination below first median nervule. Gilia broad, oclirey-yellow- 

 ish at origin and whitish externally, with rather wide fuscous inter- 

 ruptions on nervules. Under-side. — Hind-wing and costal, apical, 

 and hind-marginal border of fore-mi uj pale creamy-broivnish ; hind- 

 wing with 4 transverse series of moderate-sized dull-silvery fuscous- 

 edged spots, and clouded over basal and inner-marginal area, and 

 hetuieen third and fourth series of spots, with ptirplish-broron Fore- 

 wing : the following silvery-white-centred black spots, rid. : — three 

 disco-cellular (one terminal), one below middle cellular spot (some- 

 times indistinct), six or seven in an irregular discal transverse 

 series, and six or seven (more faintly marked with silvery-white) 

 in a regular submarginal series ; close to hind-margin a regular 

 series of seven minute black spots very slightly edged with 

 orange ; inner-marginal border dull creamy, without marking. 

 Hind-wing : a sub-basal series of three spots, the middle one in 

 discoidal cell ; a pre-median series of three, the middle one 

 in cell ; an elongate double terminal disco-cellular spot ; two 

 discal irregular and not parallel series, rather close together and 

 almost meeting mesially, of idne spots each; immediately beyond 

 these follows a submarginal whitish suffusion; a hind-marginal series 

 of eight minute black spots, fainter than those in fore-wing. 



§ . Similar to ^ , paler in basal areas, especially on costa of fore- 

 wing ; three orange-yellow spots of transverse sub-apical series in 

 fore-wing much enlarged and conspicuous, forming a short curved 

 submacular narrow stripe united to orange-yellow field on 3rd 

 median nervule, and except for a very narrow junction on costa 

 dividing broad costal from apical part of fuscous border. Hind- 

 wing : fuscous markings less developed, the costal-apical patch 

 being confluent with thin hind-mai*ginal edging as far as 2nd sub- 

 costal nervule, and the edging itself below that nervule being broken 

 up into five small completely-separated inter- nervular spots. Under- 

 side. — As in (^, but usually rather paler and a little more yellowish 

 in tint. 



The position of this species in the Thyo'a-group of Zeritis, 

 its resemblance on the upper-side to Z. aranda, Wallgrn., 

 but its nearer alliance to Z. ta'iJcosama, Wallgrn., and Z. 

 orthrus, Trim., as indicated by the under-side markings, 

 were noted in " South- African Butterflies," ii, p. 206. The 

 few examples then known to me were from KafFraria, 

 Basutoland, the Orange Free State, and Transvaal ; but I 

 have since received — besides those from Johannesburg 



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