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The type of Aloeides is A. pierus (Cramer), another South 

 African Butterfly, dotted with grey or yellowish grey at the 

 base of the wings, and with a red patch near the anal angle 

 of the hind-wings, and in the female, also on the fore-wings. 

 The under side is brown, with slightly metallic spots, and the 

 fore-wings are fulvous in the centre, spotted with black and sil- 

 very. The Butterfly has rounded wings, and expands rather 

 less than an inch and a half. 



The type of Zeritis is Z. neriene (Boisduval), a Gaboon 

 Butterfly, expanding about an inch and a half across the wings. 

 The upper side is unfigured ; the under side is tessellated with 

 square yellow and red spots, forming irregular alternate 

 bands, and partly separated by black lines, much in the fashion 

 of a Melitcea. A black zig-zag line runs near the hind-margins, 

 enclosing white spots on the fore-wings. The hind-wings are 

 rounded, not dentated or tailed. 



The type of Cigar it is is C. zohra, Donzel, a North African 

 species very like Lyc&naphkeas. It expands an inch and a quar- 

 ter across the wings; the hind wings are sub-caudate in the 

 male, and have longer tails in the female. The fore-wings are 

 bright coppery-red, with a black hind-margin, two short black 

 bands in the cell, and a sub-marginal black band beyond. The 

 hind- wings are black, with two or three coppery bands, imper- 

 fectly separated, towards the hind-margin. The under side of 

 the hind-wings is dull yellowish-green, with irregular white 

 markings. These are not all the well-marked forms of this 

 heterogeneous African group, but will sufficiently serve to 

 illustrate it. 



GENUS APHN^US. 



Aphnaus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett, p. 81 (1816); He wit- 

 son, Illustr. Diurn. Lepid. p. 60 (1865); Trimen, S. 

 African Butterflies, ii. p. 146(1887); Schatz Rober, 

 Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 171 (1892). 



