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median nervule and anal-angular prominence. I have not seen the $ of 

 the typical form. 



Hill-sides and summits. 



December. February (b) March (e). 



Has quite the habits of its nearest congeners, flying rapidly, but for very 

 short distances, after the manner of the Hespericlte, and almost always 

 settling on the ground. It may easily be taken with the fingers, if the 

 collector gradually and cautiously approaches it. A most beautiful species. 



Cape Town. Stellenbosch. Swellendam (L. Taats). 

 Coll. Tri. 



" Kaffraria (Wahlberg)." Wallgr. 



170. Zeritis Thyra. 



Papilio Thyra, Linn., Syst. Nat., II, p. 789, n. 227. 



Mus. Lud. Ulr. Reg., p. 328, n. 147. 

 Nycetus, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. '243, f. E, F. 

 Hesperia Thyra, Fab., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 314, n. 188. 

 Polvommatus Evadrus (var. 2), Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, 



[p. 672. 



? ? Polyommatus Thyra, Godt., op cit., p. 663, n. 156. 

 Zeritis Thyra, DoubL, Westw., Hewits., Gen. D. Lep. t 



[pi. 76, f. 9. 

 Exp. 1 in. 1 lin. 1 in. 6 lin. 



$ . Orange-red, with blackish borders. Fore-wing : border 

 rather narrow at base (where it is suffused with greyish- 

 ozhreous, which sometimes narrowly edges costa to apex), 

 but widening greatly to apex, whence, abruptly narrowing 

 on first median nervule, it is moderately broad along hind- 

 margin to anal angle, where it usually widens again ; base 

 blackish mixed with ochreous. Hind-wing ; border usually 

 nearly obsolete on costa, but commencing more or less 

 broadly about apex, narrowed abruptly on first median 

 nervule, and thence only a dentate edging to anal angle. 

 UNDER-SIDE. Hind-wing and border of fore- wing greyish- 

 or brownish-ochreous, or often purplish-lake, the former with 

 irregular whitish streaks and spots. Fore-wing : orange 

 usually paler, especially towards inner-margin ; two black 

 spots in cell, one closing it, an inwardly-oblique transverse 

 row of five or six beyond it, and a suffused submarginal 

 row, all spots above median nervure and its first branch 

 white-centred, those of cell very conspicuously ; below cell 

 two blackish markings (one basal, one just beyond) usually 

 confluent. Hind-wing: two small spots at base, one on 

 costa, one in cell ; a transverse row of four before middle 

 (one in cell) ; a long streak closing cell, usually confluent 



