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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
large ; a very faint submarginal row of spots, the two about its middle 
dimly steely-scaled. Hind-wing : spots indistinct, but little paler than 
ground-colour, indicated by their dark edges ; a row of three before 
middle ; a discal row of eight sub-lunulate spots ; two indistinct lunu- 
lar submarginal streaks, of which the outer one is more strongly 
marked and interrupted. 
$ Like the ^, but paler and not quite so metallic ; basal fuscous 
suffusion rather wider. 
Three specimens which I took at Blaauwberg in the Cape District in 
October 1878 are smaller and duller than those found in the more immediate 
vicinity of Cape Town, and have a costal blackish border in the fore-wing, 
besides a broader basal suffusion and hind-marginal border in both wings. 
The fore-wings of this bright little species are both in colouring and 
pattern very like those of the abundant European Chrysojjhcmus Phlceas, the 
"Small Copper" of English collectors. Its range seems to be extremely 
limited, and I am not aware of its occurrence beyond the Cape District. It 
is, moreover, very local, haunting almost exclusively the leaves and flowers of 
a tall, shrubby, thick-leaved Senecio, which flourishes about the rough broken 
slopes and rocky "kopjes" near Cape Town, but grows in rather detached 
groups in certain spots only. I feel pretty sure that the larva must feed on 
this plant, but much searching has not resulted in its discovery. The butter- 
fly is usually numerous where it occurs, and easily captured. October and 
November are its favourite months, but I have met with it from September to 
January. 
Localities of Zeritis Zeuxo. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. — Cape Town. Blaauwberg, Cape District. 
204. (3.) Zeritis Chrysaor, Trimen. 
Plate IX. fig. 2 ( ). 
Zeritis Chrysaor, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3rd Ser., ii. p. 177 (1864); 
and Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 263, n. 163 (1866). 
Uxp. al., 10 lin. — i in. 2 lin. 
Glittering golden-orange ; spots arranged much as in Zeuxo, but usually 
smaller and more distinct (the submarginal row of hind-wing wholly 
wanting) ; hind-marginal border much oiarrower (in fore-wing widest at 
apex, in hind-ioing macular or nearly so, being sharply indented 
interiorl}^ on nervules). Hind-ioing : a dot or short linear mark 
at end of cell ; no costal clouding. Under side. — Hind-ioing, and 
costa at base with apical area of fore-iving, varying from pale creamy- 
ochreous to pale ferruginous-ochreous. Fore-iving : spots arranged as in 
Zeuxo, but filled with more glittering silvery, the whole (except dots 
of submarginal row) usually metallic- centred, but sometimes only those 
near costa. Hind-wing : spots small, slightly glistening, arranged as 
in Zeuxo, but less distinct ; on hind-margin of paler specimens (usually 
^ s) some ferruginous clouding ; anal-angular projection more acute 
than in Zeuxo. 
