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H. STEMPFFER 



from them in the following particulars : — in Z. sorhageni the lobes of the uncus are 

 quadrangular, the subunci bear two small apophyses instead of one large one, and 

 the two branches of the lower fultura are much stouter, though still asymmetrical. 

 In fontainei the lobes of the uncus are rounded, there is only one small apophysis on 

 the lower margin of the subunci, the protuberance on the margin of the tegumen is 

 rounded and very large, and the branches of the inferior fultura are as in sorhageni. 

 In the shape of the uncus, tegumen and subunci, the species of Zeritis are more 

 closely allied to species of Axiocerses than to those of Chloroselas and Desmolycaena. 



List of Species of Zeritis 



Zeritis aurivillii Schultze, 1908. Fig. Aurivillius in Seitz, 1924. 

 * Zeritis fontainei Stempffer, 1956 : 35, fig. 

 *Zeritis neriene neriene Boisduval, 1836. 



Zeritis neriene f. muzizii Bethune Baker, 1924, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (9) 14 : 



134- 

 Zeritis neriene amine (Butler), 1874. 

 * Zeritis pulcherrima Aurivillius, 1916. Fig. Aurivillius in Seitz, 1924. 

 *Zeritis sorhageni (Dewitz), 1879. 



Genus DESMOLYCAENA Trimen 



, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1898 : 7 ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 334 ; 1924 : 

 169. Type-species : Desmolycaena mazoensis Trimen, by original 



Desmolycaena Trimen, 18 

 419 ; Swanepoel, 1953 

 designation. 



Eyes glabrous ; palpi long, ascending beyond the irons, second segment long, flattened 

 laterally, clothed below with long, erect scales, third segment very short, slender, cylindrical, 

 with obtuse apex, clothed with adpressed scales ; antennae three-fifths of length of costa, 

 rather slender with a well differentiated, fusiform club ; thorax clothed below with long white 



Fig. 146. Zeritis neriene neriene Boisduval, ^ genitalia. 



