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fourth transverse row of spots; and on the underside of 

 the fore-wings in having the spots of the inner of the 

 two submarginal rows more or less distinctly marked 

 interiorly with silvery- white. 



The description given by Fabricius (Ent. Syst. iii. 

 320) of his H. Seutonius, agrees so well with Cramer's 

 figure E in the character '^posticse margine postico 

 nigro punctate," that it is right to give Seutonius, Fab., 

 as a synonym of the type-form, instead of treating it as 

 a variety, which latter coui'se was followed in Rhop. Afr. 

 aust., p. 275. 



Zeritis Aranda, 

 Wallengren, Svensk. Akad. Handl. 1857, p. 43. 



A J and $ sent from Maseru do not differ from the 

 Colonial specimens, excepting that the small black spot 

 on the upperside of the hind-wings, near the anal angle, 

 is almost obsolete in the ? , and quite so in the ^ . 



This was treated as a variety (A) of Z. Pierus, in Rhop. 

 Afr. austr. p. 275 ; but its total want of the outer of the 

 two submarginal rows of black spots on the underside of 

 the fore-wings, seems a sufficiently important difference 

 to warrant its being held a distinct species. 



Wallengren rightly notes that, although Aranda seems 

 nearly related to Nycetus, Cramer (Pap. Ex. pi. ccclxxx. 

 f. F. G.) in the colouring of the upperside, yet the under- 

 side is widely diflerent. I entertain no doulDt that Nycetus 

 is the Thyra of Linn^us, so well does the description 

 in Mus. Lud. Ulr. Reg. (p. 329) apply to it, especially 

 as regards the markings of the underside of the hind- 

 wings, " maculae et lituroe variae, sparsae, albo-subargen- 

 tese', quarutn msdim majores magis confluentes ; posticce 

 vera strigam refei'unt." 



Zeritis Molomo, n. sp. (PI VI. fig, 9.) 



? . Exp. 1 in. 4 lin. 



Allied to Z. Pierus. 



Bright fulvous-orange : upperside as in Pierus $ , but 

 the grayish-ochreous of the basal region in both ivings re- 

 placed by the fulvous-orange, which extends (even more 

 completely than in Z. Aranda) over the basal half of 



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