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wing so widened as to occupy the outer two-thirds of the whole 

 area, with the exception of an indistinct orange spot on disc \ 

 while the brown marginal space in hind-wing is much larger than 

 usual, as well as the spot near anal angle. 



Zeritis Mars is closely allied to Z. Pierus, Cram., but is 

 distinguished by its brighter, paler ground-colour, occupying a 

 larger area ; its sharper anal-angular projection on hind-wing ; 

 want of the row of, spots on hind-margins of underside ; generally 

 smaller size, &c. The undersides of the two species are, how- 

 ever, very similar, and equally subject to variation in hue. Z. Mars 

 was not uncommon at Knysna, though almost confined to the 

 hills, haunting bare sandy spots. 



Hab. Knysna; Coll. mihi. — Fort Murray and Fort Hare, 

 British KafFraria; Coll. W. S. M. D'Urban. 



Zeritis Aglaspis. 



Exp. 11 lin. — 1 in. 4 lin. 



$ . Blackish-brown, with a dull-orange space in each wing ; 

 cilia broad, conspicuously white and black chequered. Fore-wing: 

 paler near base ; orange longitudinal marking covers the three 

 median nervules from their origins, but ends abruptly before 

 hind-margins ; an elongate yellowish spot, touching orange space, 

 closes discoidal cell ; sometimes a faint, suffused orange dot near 

 apex. Hind-wing : close to hind-margin, from discoidal nervule 

 to sub-median nervure, ah orange band, crossed by dark nervules 

 which dentate it both internally and externally ; base and inner 

 margin paler. Underside. — Apex of fore-wing and whole of 

 hind-wing cinereous or reddish-cinereous, varied with brown, and 

 marked with glistening whitish-silvery spots. Fore-wing : orange- 

 yellow ; inner-margin very much paler, white at anal angle ; two 

 black-ringed whitish-silvery spots in discoidal cell, and another 

 closing it ; two similar dots close to costa beyond middle ; a con- 

 spicuous, oblique, silvery streak from apex commences a bi-angu- 

 late row of silvery dots extending to Srd median nervule ; a 

 macular stripe close to margin, silvery-white in its upper, fuscous 

 in its lower half. Hind-wing: nervures pale cinereous ; whitish- 

 silvery marks thinly black-edged ; a dot at base ; two in cell, and 

 a large triangular spot closing it ; two streaks from costal con- 

 verge to sub-costal nervure ; beyond middle, a transverse, zigzag, 

 macular stripe from costa to inner margin ; a row of very acute, 

 contiguous lunules along hind-margin, sometimes bordered in- 

 wardly with a rosy-ferruginous streak. Cilia white chequered 

 ochreous-brown in both wings. 



