240 Mr. H. Trimen on some neio or imperfectly- 



above mentioned — two ticketed Kimberley in the collection 

 of Mr. C. N. Barker, and a good series taken at Dordrecht 

 in N.E. Cape Colony by Mr. Francis Graham. The latter 

 examjjles were noted by Mr. Graham as occurring almost 

 exclusively on "kopjes "and elevated spots, and with quite 

 the habits and flight of the allied species. During three 

 years' observation, the insect was found to be really numer- 

 ous only in the month of October, but occasional specimens 

 were noticed during the later summer months. Mr. 

 Feltham's examples were also taken in October (1901 and 

 1902) in a hollow on the Witwatersrand hills lying along 

 the north side of Johannesburg ; and he writes that the 

 insect in that locality was apparently restricted to a very 

 limited area — possibly that of some special food-plant — and 

 in its short and zigzag flight close to the ground and 

 frequent settling on the bare earth or on stones quite 

 resembled its congeners Z. aranda and Z. almeida, Feld. 



Zeritis damarensis, Trim. (Plate XIX, figs. 5, oa, 5h.) 

 Zeritis damarensis, Trim., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1891, p. 



90, n. 76, pi. ix, f. 17 {$). 

 Variety. — Zeritis molomo, Trim., " Variety A (^ and $)," 

 S.-Afr. Butt., ii, p. 206 (1887). 



In my description of this butterfly m 1891 (/. f.) I had 

 only three examples of the $ before me and no $. The 

 main features distinguishing it from Z. molomo, Trim., were 

 noted as (1st) much larger size ; (2nd) paler and more 

 restricted orange-yellow of upper-side, the basal areas being 

 widely-obscured with ochreous-fuscous; and (on under-side) 

 (3rd) a whitish suffusion on costa of fore-wing, and over 

 base and upper median area of hind-wing ; (4th) sub- 

 metallic spots of hind-wing whiter but not so bright ; and 

 (5th) the outer discal series of spots in hind-wing more 

 remote from the inner one and more regular. To those 

 features characteristic of the under-side of the hind-wing 

 should be added the absence of the purplish-brown clouding 

 in the basal and inner-marginal areas and between the two 

 discal series of spots, so conspicuous in Z. molomo ; as well 

 as the absence of the first spot in the pre-median series ; 

 while as regards the upper-side of the hind-wing, there is 

 a remarkabk; difference in the shajse and position of the 

 costal-apical fuscous patch, which is prolonged not inferiorly 

 and submarginally as in Molomo, but towards centre of 

 wing, ending abruptly just at extremity of discoidal cell. 



