370 Mr. Roland Trimeu on 



Chryso2)hanus Lara. 



Papilio Lara, Lin. S. N. ii. 791. 



The specimens of both sexes sent from Koro-Koro and 

 Maseru, are of the oi-dinary blunt outline of ^ving•s, but 

 are rather darker than usual, and with the underside 

 markings strongly defined. In two examples ( c? find J) 

 the ocelli of both wings are on the upperside ill-defined, 

 the white rings being very imperfect ; and in one of 

 them (the c?) the upper ocellus in the fore-wings is 

 wanting. I met with this species in ]S^atal,near D'Urban, 

 Maritzburg, and about the Great Noodsberg, but in no 

 place found it numerous. The single examj^le taken on 

 the coast belonged to the variety Gorgias, Stoll (Suppl. 

 Cram. Pap. Exot. p. 150, pi. xxxiii. f. 5, 5d) . Mr. A. G. 

 Butler, following the doubtful reference of Doubleday, 

 has lately (Cat. Di. Lep. descr. by Fabr. in Coll. Brit. 

 Mus. p. 178) located Lara in the genus Zeritis, with 

 ZeuxQ, Thyshe, and their allies ; but with none of these, 

 and still less with Boisduval's type of the genus, Z. 

 Neriene (judging from that author's figure in pi. xxii. 

 f. 6c, of the Species General) does it at all agree in 

 structure, its short slender palpi, and thin abruptly- 

 clavate antennas, being completely different from those 

 of Zeritis, and altogether like those of Clirysophanus. 



Genus Zeritis, Boisduval. 



Zeritis Chrysaor. 



Trimen, Tr. Ent. Soc, 3 ser., ii. 177 (1864); Rhop. Afr. 

 austr. ii. 263. 



Several specimens have reached me from Koro-Koro 

 and Maseru, where Mr. Bowker notes the species as 

 occurring on hill-tops among small shrubs. These ex- 

 amples arc rather larger than the generality of specimens, 

 one S expanding as much as 1 in. 1^ lin., and one ? 

 not less than 1 in. 2 lin. Several of the males are 

 remarkable for the smallnoss of their black spots (in the 

 hind-'w'ings of one they are mere dots); and both sexes 



