270 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



appear almost continuous of spot closing discoidal cell ; 

 submarginal, metallic-dotted streak rather more strongly 

 marked. Hind-wing : greyish-ochreous, with a ferruginous 

 hind-marginal tinge ; metallic dark-edged spots arranged 

 much as in Perion; two in cell, one closing it; row beyond 

 middle more conspicuous, composed of seven spots, arranged 

 in pairs, except the seventh, which, with the sixth, is large 

 and brilliant; submarginal streak as in fore -wing, but 

 strongly metallic at anal angle. 



The antennae are glistening beneath, but want the conspicuous white bar 

 of Z. Perion ; and the outline of wings is like that of the $ , but less 

 dentate. 



This little species is curiously like Z. Perion, ? , but is readily distin- 

 guished from it by its metallic-orange upper-surface, its solitary discoidal 

 spot and broader (comparatively) hind-marginal border of fore- wing ; and 

 beneath by different arrangement of spots, which are more steely than 

 golden. The above description is ma^e from a single specimen, apparently 

 a $ . It is the smallest of the Genus that I have seen. 



" Caught at the edge of a forest, March." J. H. Bowker. 



Bashee River, Kaffraria (J. H. Bowker). Coll. S. A. Mus. 



168. Zeritis Alphseus. 



Papilio Alphaeus, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 380, f. E, F. 

 Hesperia Alphaeus, Fab., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 333, n. 



[265. 



Polyommatus Alphseus, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 663. 

 Zeiitis Alphseus, DoubL, Westw., Hewits., Gen. Diurn. 



[Lep., pi. 77, f. 3. 

 Exp. 1 in. 4J lin. 1 in. 10J lin. 



. Glossy-black* with a broad, discal, submetallic-red 

 band, from fourth subcostal nervule of fore-wing to submedian 

 nervure of hind-wing, near anal angle ; a mixed golden and 

 purplish gloss over basal region ; cilia white, with black 

 spots at ends of nervules. Fore-wing : band exteriorly 

 indented with black on nervules. Hind-wing : a narrow 

 costal blackish border; inner-marginal region hairy, dull-grey; 

 anal angle bluntly produced, marked with a red spot ; on 

 subcostal nervure, at origin of nervules, a small, subovate, 

 glistening space. UNDER-SIDE. Hind-wing and border of 

 fore-wing (except inner-margin) hoary-grey, clouded with 

 darker. Fore-wing : bright-orange, paling into dull-yellowish 

 on inner-margin ; at end of cell, two short, ferruginous, 

 blackish-edged, transverse marks, between which is a greyish 

 space ; between them and apex, two longer similar, more 

 widely apart, crenelated streaks from costa, converging as far 



