LYC^NIDiE. 
oclireous-brown, ferruginous, or vinaceous, varied with sub-metallic 
white or greyish spots. 
This is an eminently South- African genus, only three of the 
twenty-eight species known being peculiar to other parts of Africa. 
The two North- African species (^Sypliax, Lucas, and Zohra, Donzel) 
belong to the Zeuxo group, which includes eight South- African species. 
The Thysbe group contains three, the Thero group four, and the Thyra 
group nine natives of South Africa. It is very noteworthy that out of 
the twenty-five recorded South- African species only two (Ta'ikosama, 
Wallengr., and Orthrus, Trim.) have been found within the Southern 
Tropic, and not one elsewhere in the Ethiopian Region. Z. Leroma 
and the Zeuxo and Thysbe groups have much the same habits as 
Chryso'phamis, actively flitting about bushes and flowering shrubs, but 
several of them are at the same time fond of settling on the ground, 
a practice which prevails also in the Thero group (though not in the 
case of Thero itself), and becomes quite constant in the Thyra group. 
Many inhabit the most arid and desolate tracts of country, and seem to 
delight in the intense heat of the parched sandy soil under the noon- 
day sunshine, seldom visiting flowers or seeming to need liquid nourish- 
ment of any kind. The under surface colouring of the Thyra group is 
generally highly protective, closely resembling the tints of the ground 
frequented by these butterflies. The flight of the ground-frequenting 
species is rapid but very short ; and I have noticed a great difference 
among them in wariness and alacrity in evading attack. Thus, while 
it is easy to capture Wallengrcnii and Aglasjns with finger and thumb, 
Thyra and Barklyi are extremely shy of the collector's advances, — the 
latter (except when settled on flowers) being on this account by no 
means easily taken. 
Zeritis is very generally distributed over South Africa, fourteen 
species being found alike in the Western and Eastern districts ; four 
others appearing to be limited to the former, and seven to the latter, 
but mostly possessing a considerable range towards the Interior. 
202. (1.) Zeritis Leroma, (Wallengren). 
$ Arliopala? Leroma, Wallengr., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1857, Lep. 
Ehop. CafFr., p. 42. 
Amblypodia? Leroma, Trim., Khop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 231, n. 134 
(1886). 
$ $ Zeritis Leroma, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1870, p. 375, pi. vi. 
f. 10 (c^). 
$ Zeritis Zorites, Hewits., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 354. 
LJxp. aL, {$) 9 J lin. — i in. ij lin. ; ($) i in. 1-4 lin. 
$ Pale hroiunish-grey, with a silky or suh- metallic lustre ; a linear 
hind-marginal fuscous edging ; cilia ivhitish luith a shining -greyish gloss. 
Hind-iving : a short black linear tail, slightly tipped with whitish, on 
submedian nervure ; just below it, an anal-angular small indistinct 
