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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
Localities of Zeritis Talmits. 
1. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Cape Town. Eerste River, Noord Hoek, and 
Simon's Town, Cape District. Paarl. Robertson. Swellendam 
{L. Taats). Knysna. Plattenberg Bay. 
h. Eastern Districts. — Burghersdorp {D. R. Kannemeyer). 
d. Basutoland. — Maseru (/. H. Bowlier). 
214. (13.) Zeritis Thero, (LinnEens). ; 
^\Paj)ilio Thero, Linn., Mus. Lud. Ulr. Reg., p. 328, n. 146 (1764); and 
Syst. Nat., i. 2, p. 787, n. 219 (1767). 
Papilio Rumina, Dru., 111. Nat. Hist., i. pi. ii. ff. i, i (1770). 
5 Papilio Sahnoneus, Cram., Pap. Exot., iv. pi. cccxli. fF. d, e (1782). 
Rapilio Erosine, Fab., Mant. Ins., ii. p. 51, n. 506 (1787). 
Papilio Pulsius, Herbst., Nat. Bek. Ins., — Schmett., vi. pi. 156, IF. 6, 7 
(1793). 
^ 9 Polyommatus Tliero, Godt., Enc. Metli., ix. p. 662, n. 154 (1819). 
Zerythis Thero, Clienu, Enc. d'Hist. Nat., Pap., i. f. 351 (1852). 
^ $ Zeritis Thero, Trim., Rliop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 276, n. 172 (1866). 
Exp. al.^ {$) I in. 4^-8 lin. ; (g) i in. 8 lin. — 2 in. 
$ Darh-hroivn^ with orange-red spots; bases rather widely scaled 
with orange-oclireous ; hind-wing with two tails, a rather long acute 
one on submedian nervure, and a shorter one on first median nervule ; 
cilia whitish, with wide brown interruptions at ends of nervules. Eore- 
wing : spots subquadrate ; one in cell, and another just beyond it; a 
discal row of five parallel to hind-margin (of which the first three are 
smaller and sometimes indistinct) between fourth subcostal and third 
median nervules ; below first median, rather before middle, the largest 
spot in wing. Hind-wing : a submarginal row of four broad lunular 
spots between discoidal nervule and submedian nervure (the first, and 
sometimes the second, and even the third also, occasionally obsolete), 
of which the last, as well as anal-angular lobe, is marked with a pale 
greyish- edged black spot. Under side. — Hind-ioing and horders of 
fore-iuing, soft-grey clouded with Iroivn. Fore-wing : orange-red ; two 
silvery-white centred black spots in cell, and a third, larger, closing it ; 
spots of discal row more or less confluent, the first four (there being 
an additional costal one) dimly white-centred ; a spot on either side 
of origin of first median nervule ; midway between discal row and hind- 
margin, a parallel submacular suffused fuscous stripe, outwardly mixed 
with ferruginous. Hind-wing : central area brown ; the following 
silvery-white markings, sometimes with ferruginous edges, viz., a small 
spot near base, just below costal nervure ; a transverse row of four 
before middle, of which the second (in cell) is large and elongate ; 
closing cell, a large irregidar marking, emitting a Iroad ray along dis- 
