LYC^NID^. 
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and beyond middle towards lower part of liind-margin, wliere tliere is 
a clouding of brownisli-fuscous ; anal-angular falvous-oclireous spot 
smaller than on upper side, and edged inferior ly with black. 
This curious little species appears to constitute a passage between the 
genera Aphnceus and Zeritis ; the upper side of the wings, with a blue gloss 
and fulvous anal-angular spot (but without the usual yellow-ochreous mark- 
ings), resembling that prevalent in the former genus, while the metallic- 
centred spots of the under side are so similar in arrangement and appearance 
to the characteristic spotting of Zeritis (and particularly to that of the little 
Z. PJiOsphor, mihi) that, until I detected the remains of a second tail on each 
hind-wing, I was strongly disposed to place the butterfly in the latter genus. 
I am indebted to Miss Fanny Bowker, of Pembroke, near King William's 
Town, for the first specimen that I have seen ; it was taken by her on a low 
shrub (a species of Eudea), on the border of a wood at Tharfield, in the 
Division of Bathurst.^ 
A second example occurred in a collection formed by Mr. J. M. Hutchin- 
son, shown to me in the year 1881 ; he informed me that he captured it on 
the Bushman River in Natal. 
Localities of AjjJmceus pseudo-zeritis. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
b. Eastern Districts. — Tharfield, Bathurst District (ATlss F. 
Bowker). 
E. Natal. 
b. Upper Districts. — Bushman Biver (J. M. Hutchinson). 
Genus CHEYSORYCHIA. 
Chrysorychia, Wallengr,, Kongl. Svensk. Vetensk.-Akad. Handl., 1857, — 
Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 44. 
Axiocerses, Hiibn., Yerz. Bek. Schmett., p. 71 (1816). 
Zeritis [part], Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 261 (1866). 
Imago. — Head rather small, rather roughly hairy in front ; eyes 
smooth ; palpi short, — second joint rather roughly hirsute and scaly, 
especially towards extremity, — terminal joint short, scaly, moderately 
slender, acuminate, obliquely ascendant ; antennm rather long, mode- 
rately thick, with an elongated, cylindrical, but very pronounced club. 
Thorax robust, clothed above frontally, laterally, and posteriorly, 
with close silky hair, and beneath with dense woolly hair. Fore- 
wings rather produced apically and elbowed hind-marginally, espe- 
cially in $ ; costa slightly hollowed about middle ; costal nervure 
ending about middle ; subcostal nervure with only three nervules, — 
the first arising midway between base and extremity of discoidal 
cell, — the second about midway between the first and extremity of 
cell, — the third at a little beyond extremity of cell (having a com- 
^ About the same bush were several Zeritis Clirysaor, Trimen ; and Mrs. Barber informs 
me that Ehenacece, of the genus Euclea, are the plants most frequented by the species of 
Zeritis in the eastern districts of the Colony. 
