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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
I first met with this species under a thorn-tree (known as the " One 
Tree," in a wide expanse of country) a few miles from Annenous, on the line 
of railway laid down by the Cape Copper Mining Company, and afterwards 
on the road between Elboogfontein and Kockfontein ; near the Komaggas 
Mission Station ; and at Oograbies ; but it was numerous at the latter place 
only. It has the short active flight of its congeners, but is less wary when 
settled. It usually rests on the bare twigs of some low shrub, with its head 
downward, and when disturbed will sometimes return to the same perch. 
The ^ has a very dark, almost black appearance on the wing ; but the only $ 
I met with had in flight more the look of A. Natalensis, Westw. 
Localities of Aphnmis Namaqims. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Annenous, Oograbies, &c.. District of 
Namaqualand. Carries, Spectakel, Ookiep, and Klipfonteiu, 
District of Namaqualand (Z. Perinrjuey), 
199. (7.) Aphnseus pseudo-zeritis, Trimen. 
^ A^linoeus "pseudo-zeritis, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1873, p. 113, 
pi. i. f. 6. 
Exp. cel., 1 1 lin. 
$ Fuscous J glossed with metallic Uiie. Fore-iving : blue forms a 
patch on inner margin, rising only very little above first median [ 
nervule, and not entering discoidal cell or extending much beyond 
middle. Hind-iving : blue occupies greater part of wing from base 
to hind-margin, leaving a broad costal and narrower inner-marginal 
fuscous border ; a good-sized fulvous-ochreous spot at anal angle, 
marked exteriorly by two black dots, and interiorly by a few minute 
brassy scales. Under side. — Dull, pale greyish-ochreousj with stti- 
quadrate, darker spots centred with glittering brassy scales. Fore-wing: 
five spots in discoidal cell, irregularly placed, the elongate one at 
extremity and the spot nearest to it being considerably larger than the 
other three ; a row of three minute brassy dots along costal edge near ^ 
base ; beyond the latter, four small elongate spots form a curved row, 
near costal edge, from second cellular spot to a little beyond middle ; 
an irregular transverse row of about six spots beyond middle, of which 
the first three are distinct and well-separated, but the lower ones con- 
fluent, larger, and indistinct ; two parallel rows of six spots each along 
hind-margin, the outer row on hind-marginal edge, and consisting of I 
smaller spots than those of the inner row ; a short, oblique, apical 
streak is formed by the confluence of the first spots of the two rows ; 
cellular region and costa adjacent suffused with fulvous-yellow from I 
base ; between median nervure and inner margin an irregular, elongate, 
fascous marking. Hind-iviiig : spots arranged similarly to those in 1 
fore-wing, but more suff*used and indistinct, especially in basal region I 
