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sinuate row of ocelli beyond middle, a whitish-edged fuscous 

 streak closing discoidal cell, a distinct ocellus in cell (sometimes 

 an indistinct ocellus below it), and two rows of pale-fuscous, 

 indistinctly whitish-edged, lunular spots along hind-margin. Hind- 

 wing : 3 minute ocelli near base, forming with that in discoidal 

 cell a short row across wing ; base blackish-dusted. 



? . Shining greyish-brown ; inner-marginal area of both wings 

 more or less dusted with violet-blue from base. Fore-wing: a 

 fuscous line closing discoidal cell. Underside. — Quite similar to 

 that of ^, but all the spots more cons])icuous, especially the mar- 

 ginal lunular rows. Fore-wing : spot below that in discoidal cell 

 always present, often distinct. 



A specimen of the ? (taken in copula) in my collection is 

 darker on upperside than usual, with faint-bluish marking, and 

 with two or three faint-fuscous, outwardly whitish-edged spots 

 near anal angle : the underside much darker and browner ; the 

 spots larger, blacker, conspicuously white-edged, as are also the 

 rows of marginal lunules ; hind-wing with an additional ocellus 

 at base, a longitudinal, conspicuous, whitish dash from disco- 

 cellular streak to inner row of lunules, of which row the three 

 next anal angle are black. Mr. W. S. M. D'Urban has met with 

 precisely similar specimens in very distant localities, so that it 

 would seem to be a permanent variety of the species. 

 . This species is allied to L. Acca, Westw., but both sexes are 

 readily distinguished from it by the paler and more conspicuously 

 spotted underside and whiter cilia ; and the $ by its more violet 

 upperside, with dark margins, four times as broad as those of the 

 $ Acca. The orange lunule inwardly bordering a black spot near 

 anal angle of hind-wing, often so conspicuous in both sexes of 

 L. Acca, is never found in Knysna. The $ bears considerable 

 resemblance above to the $ L. yEgon, W, V. 



Not uncommon at Knysna and Plettenberg Bay ; local, haunting 

 waste ground, especially stubble-fields. 



Hab. Cape Town, Knysna, Plettenberg Bay ; Coll. mihi. — 

 King William's Town, Graham's Town, Keiskamma River, near 

 Bodiam, Port Elizabeth ; Coll. W. S. M. D'Urban. 



Genus Zeritis, Boisd. 



Zeritis Croesus, 



Exp. 1 in. — 1 in. 3 lin. 



$. Red, inclining to orange, not brilliant; with shining dark- 

 brown margins. Fore-wing : base suffused with dark-brown ; 



