354 Mr. W. C. Hewitson's descriptions 



Zeritis Zaraces. 



Upperside. Male. — Grey-brown. Anterior wing with 

 a black spot at the end of the cell and a second beyond it, 

 the space between them white ; a black spot near the 

 middle of the inner margin, its centre pale ; crossed be- 

 yond these, parallel to the outer margin, by a hexafid 

 band of pale yellow. Posterior wing with a central pale 

 yellow spot, bordered above and below with black. 



Underside grey-brown, undulated tlu-oughout with 

 darker brown. Anterior wing mth the centre yellow, 

 marked as above by the spot at the end of the cell, the 

 black spot beyond (which is divided into two), and by a 

 band of fom* black spots. Posterior wing with four or five 

 sub-basal spots and a transverse band beyond the middle of 

 rufous-brown. 



Female Avhite. Both wings with the base and margins 

 broadly brown ; both with a black spot at the end of the 

 cell and a short band of the same colour beyond it. Anterior 

 wing with a large, triangular black spot in the middle. 

 Underside like the male. 



Exp. 1| inch. 



Hub. — South Africa. 



The male of this species is very closely allied to Z. Pro- 

 tumnus, but has a very different female. 



Zeritis Zorites. 



Upperside. Male. — Rufous-brown. 



Underside pale rufous-grey. Anterior wing with two 

 white spots within and one at the end of the cell, bordered 

 with black and irrorated with gold, an angular, hexafid 

 band of white beyond the middle, bordered with black 

 and irrorated with gold ; a band of white near the outer 

 margin, marked on both sides with minute brown spots, 

 the spots on the inner side irrorated with silver. Posterior 

 wing with some white spots near the base, bordered with 

 black ; crossed beyond the middle by two white bands, 

 bordered on both sides by brown spots, the spots on the 

 inner side of these bands irrorated with silver. 



Exp. $ T^o, ? H inch. 



South Africa (Buxton). 



Mr. Buxton has very kindly given me specimens of this 

 species, taken by himself. It is very unlike other brilliant 

 species of the same genus. 



