278 HHOPAL6CERA AFRICJE AXISTRALIS. 



A g ih my collection has the spot in cell on under-side of fore-wing 

 united to the marking closing cell. 



Waste, sandy places. 



September. October. 



Has the same habits as most of the Genus. The bright markings of 

 under-side of hind-wing render it conspicuous when at rest. It was not 

 uncommon on the sand-hills at Mossel Bay on the 20th September, 1858. I 

 took a $ at Stellenbosch flying about a rose-hedge at the side of a road. 

 This fine insect attains a wider expanse of wings than any of the South 

 African Lycanida. 



Stellenbosch. Mossel Bay. Paarl. Worcesrer. Swel- 

 lendam (L. Taats). Coll. Tri. 

 Cape Colony. Coll. S. A. Mus. 

 South Africa. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



173. Zeritis? Protumnus. 



Papilio Protumnus, Linn., Mus. Lud. Ulr. Reg., p. 340. 



Petalus, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 243, f. C, D. 

 Polyommatus Petalus, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 672, 



[n. 171. 



Var. Zerythis ? Basuta, Wallgr., Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 46. 

 Exp. 1 in. 2 lin. 1 in. 9 lin. 



. Dull fuscous - ochreous, with black spots, and dull- 

 blackish borders. Fore-wing : a large, more or less defined, 

 elongate spot at end of, and running into, cell ; beyond it, 

 from costa, a row of confluent spots, angulated inwardly on 

 first median nervule and extending to middle of submedian 

 nervure (the whole of the row below first median is often 

 wanting or very faintly marked) ; costa rather narrowly 

 bordered with greyish ; hind-marginal blackish border broad, 

 nearly even throughout ; a smooth greyish space covers median 

 nervules at their origin. Hind-wing : the broad blackish 

 border leaves only an inner-marginal and discal ochreous 

 space, not extending above discoidal nervule ; crossing 

 ochreous nearly to submedian an ill-defined macular stripe. 

 UNDER-SIDE. Hind-wing and borders of fore-wing hoary- 

 grey, the former crossed by two rows of faint-brownish 

 confluent spots. Fore-wing : pale yellow -ochreous ; spots as 

 above, but smaller and more distinct, that closing cell 

 divided into two ; below the inner of these two, outside cell, 

 a small round spot ; hind-marginal border faint-fuscous 

 towards anal angle, sometimes marked interiorly by a row of 

 very indistinct, small, dark spots. Hind-wing : markings 

 variable and often very indistinct ; macular row before middle 

 very irregular and sometimes very much broken up, a 



