as orange, where the inner one ends, but the outer is dimly 

 prolonged along external edge of orange. Hind-wing: a broad, 

 central, dark-grey, ferruginous- and black-edged, transverse 

 stripe, on its inner edge deeply pierced upwardly by a streak 

 of ground-colour; a bright-ferruginous hind-marginal edging 

 and parallel submarginai streak, both obsolete near apex ; on- 

 anal angle a black spot. 



$ . Wings rounder, especially hind-wing ; fore-wing not 

 apically prominent. Red less metallic and paler, but 

 occupying a larger field, reaching nearer to base ; dark 

 borders narrower, not so black; cilia broader. UNDER-SIDE. 

 As in $ . Fore-wing : streaks from costa not convergent. 



The central band on under-side of hind-wing is sometimes quite divided 

 by the grey intersect ion on discoidal nervule. 



Hills and mountain-sides; rarely in low grounds. 



July (b) October (e). February (e). April (m). 



This splendid Zeritis is very distinct from all its congeners, the under-side 

 being quite void of the ordinary spots. It is also the most bulky, though 

 not attaining the expanse of wins;s shown by some $ s of Z. Thero. The 

 best locality for Aljdueus is theloug hill lying between Wynberg and Protea; 

 on one occasion I found it rather common near the highest block-house on 

 the Devil's Mountain. Mr. J. L. Fry gave me a specimen taken by him on 

 the Flats, and the single example I saw at Knysna (the only locality besides 

 Cape Town known to me as a habitat of this species) was also on a little 

 mound in the dry marshes. Alphceus is exceedingly rapid on the wing, but 

 settles very frequently, and keeps constantly about one spot. It appears to 

 settle most frequently on the leaves of young Proteacea and of Watsonia ; 

 I have only twice noticed it on flowers, and never on the ground. The $ 

 is singularly scarce, even in the spots most frequented by s; I cannofc 

 remember having seen more than five specimens in as many years' observation. 



Cape Town. Coll. Tri. Knysna (seen). 

 South Africa. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



169. Zeritis Malagrida. 



Cygaritis malagrida, Wallgr., Lep. Rliop. Caffr., p. 43. 

 Var. Zeritis Aglaspis, Trimen, Tr. Ent. Soc., 3rd Ser., 



[I, p. 286. 



? Polyommatus Evadrus (var. 3), Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, 



[p. 672. 

 Exp. 11 lin. 1 in. 9 lin. 



$ . Dull-orange, bordered with Hack : bases more or less 

 tinged with pale-fuscous ; cilia conspicuously white, sharply 

 interrupted with black at ends of nervules. Fore-wing : 

 border moderately wide on costa (which is clouded with 

 greyish-ochreous from base to middle), very broad at apex 

 and at anal angle ; a pale-ochreous spot, indenting costal 

 border, marks end of cell. Hind-wing : border wanting on 



