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with its upper-surface spots and under-surface gilding, render it a 

 beautiful link between tlie unspotted, ungilded Alphceus and the 

 angulate-winged Z. Palmus, Cram., and Thysbe, Linn., which 

 possess both spotting and gilding in an eminent degree. 



Haf). Natal (Guienzius) ; Coll. Brit. Mus. — Natal (Dohne) ; 

 Coll. South Afr. Mus. — King William's Town ("very abundant"); 

 Coll. W. S. M. D'Urban. 



Zeritis Mars. 



Exp. 11 lin.— 1 in. 3 lin. 



Bright orange-yellow, not metallic ; with dark-brown margins. 



$. Fore-wing: base fuscous; yellow on costa paler, mixed 

 with grey ; a broad dark-brown border commences abruptly on 

 costa a little before extremity of discoidal cell (where there is a 

 small, more or less distinct, brown spot), widens considerably at 

 apex, and continues evenly, though less broadly, to anal angle. 

 Hind-wing : a small dark dot, often indistinct, closing discoidal 

 cell ; another similar spot, often rather larger, near anal angle, 

 just above sub-median nervure ; a large, dark-brown, semi-cir- 

 cular, marginal space in apical region, very abruptly narrowing 

 into a streak (internally dentate) along hind-margin ; a short, 

 acute, anal-angular projection of outline at extremity of sub- 

 median nervure. Underside. — Costa and apex of fore-wing, and 

 whole of hind-wing, greyish-, brownish-, ferruginous-, or san- 

 guineous-ochreous. Fore-wing: two black spots in discoidal cell, 

 and one closing it, with brilliant silvery-white centres ; an irre- 

 gular transverse row of similar spots beyond middle ; a marginal, 

 blackish, macular band, almost obliterated in its upper half, but 

 broad and well-marked towards inner margin. Hind-wing: three 

 sinuate rows of glistening, sub-metallic dots across wing, — the 

 first, before middle, including a mark closing discoidal cell, the 

 third less shining, merged towards costa in a darker shade ; two 

 glistening dots near base, one below costal nervure, the other in 

 cell. 



$ . Very similar. Fore-wing : basal suffusion much paler, 

 mingled with ground-colour ; dark border on costa more deeply 

 excavating ground-colour immediately beyond discoidal cell. 

 Hind-wing : spot near anal angle sometimes wanting ; anal-angular 

 projection blunted, rounder than in $. Underside. — Colouring 

 more vivid than in $, similarly variable, spots more conspicuous. 

 Cilia in both sexes glistening-greyish, in hind-wing varied with 

 ferruginous or sanguineous. 



A 5 specimen in my collection has the brown border of fore- 



