174 SOUTII-ArRTCAj\^ BUTTERFLIES. 
205. (4.) Zeritis Lyncurium, Trimen. 
PlateIX. figs. 3 (c^), 3a (?). 
^ 9 Z^^'it^s Lyncurium, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., i868, p. 86. 
Exp. al, ($) I in. — i in. oj lin. ; ($) i in. i_i lin. 
$ Metallic golclen-red, with nccrrow hind-marginal hlacJc borders. 
Fore-wing : base sliglitly blackish ; costa narrowly black to beyond 
middle, where the edging widens to join hind-marginal black border, 
which is broadest at apex, and the inner edge of which is irregularly 
dentated with the ground-colour on median nervules ; a narrow black 
spot at extremity of discoidal cell ; sometimes an indistinct sm.aller 
spot in cell, usually from one to four spots representing a discal trans- 
verse row. Hind-wing : base and costa broadly or very broadly 
clouded with blackish ; in some specimens a faint, narrow, blackish 
mark at extremity of discoidal cell ; hind-marginal border very 
sharply indented on its inner edge with the ground-colour on ner- 
vules. Under side. — Hind-wing and a narrow costal and apical 
border of fore-wing pale creamy-ferruginous. Fore-wing : discal row 
of spots irregular, interrupted, — the sixth (lowest) spot situated, as in 
yFthon, Trim., not beyond the fifth ; a submarginal row of five or six 
small spots ; below median nervure a short basal blackish suffusion, 
succeeded by a black spot ; the following spots more or less marked 
with glittering steely scales, viz., two in discoidal cell, one at extremity 
of cell, two minute costal ones, first of discal row, and first three of sub- 
marginal row. Ilind-tuing : the following inconspicuous darker mark- 
ings, here and there edged interiorly by dull metallic scales, viz., a thin 
terminal disco-cellular striola ; a spot in cell ; two spots between costal 
and subcostal nervures, one before, the other about middle ; and an 
irregular, interrupted discal macular row ; some red suffusion along hind- 
margin, varied by a very indistinct submarginal row of paler lunulate 
marks. Cilia dull-grey, with nervular blackish interruptions. | 
$ Paler ^ less metallic. Hind-ioing : costal clouding considerably 
narrower and paler; red indentations of border more numerous and 
deeper, almost reaching hind-marginal edge. Under side. — Hind- 
wing and costal-apical border of fore-wing paler, yellower. Fore-wing : 
steely scaling much duller and fainter, and in submarginal row of 
spots wanting entirely. Hind-wing : markings generally more distinct. 
From both CTirysaor, Trim., and yEtho7i, Trim., this butterfly is distin- 
guished by its smaller size, rather deeper red, comparatively broader hind- 
marginal border, great imperfection of discal row of spots in the fore-wing, and 
entire absence of that of hind- wing, and particularly by the b7vad costal Uack 
or blackish clouding in Mnd-iving, of which latter no trace is found in either of 
the species mentioned. On the under side, Lyncurium is decidedly nearer to 
jEthon than to Chrysaor, especially as regards the position of the lowest spot of 
the discal row in the fore-wing, the extent of red and the shght development 
of the metallic scaling in the same wing, and the nature and position of the 
markings of the hind-wing. 
