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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
ruary 1867 I took a ^ specimen of the Natal Yariation on a liillside near 
Verulam, and Colonel Bowker lias lately (1884-85) sent several examples of 
both sexes found near Pinetown. The only Cape Town specimen I have seen 
was taken by myself on 30th November 1862. 
Localities of Zcritis Aranda. 
1. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. AVestern Districts. — Cape Town. Knysna. 
b. Eastern Districts. — Fort Murray and Fort Hare, British Kaffraria 
(TF. S. M. U Urban), 
d. Basutoland. — Maseru (/. //. Bowher). 
D. Kalfraria Proper. — Bashee River (/. H. Bowker). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — Pinetown {J. H. Bowker). Verulam. 
b. Upper Districts. — Riet Spruit, near Upper Umgeni (TF. Morant). 
K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom and Lydenburg Districts (2". Ay res). ^ 
221. (20.) Zeritis Almeida, (Felder). 
$ Nais Almeida, Feld., "Verb. Zool.-Bot. Gesell. Wien., xii. i, p. 478 
(1862);" and Reise d. Novara, Dep., ii. p. 264, pi. xxxii. ff. 25, 26 
(1865) . 
^ 2 Zeritis Pierus, . Tiim. [part], Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 274, n. 171 
(1866) . I 
UxjJ. aL, ($) 11^ lin. — I in. 2^ lin. ; ($) i in. 2-4 lin. 
$ Dark oTange-red, luith very broad blackish-brown borders; bases 
ividely suffused with mixed ochrey -yellow and fuscous-grey ; cilia greyish 
mixed with fuscous, at posterior angle of fore-wing slightly whitish. 
Fore-wing : orange-red very restricted, commencing at about origin 
of first median nervule, scarcely extending below submedian nervure 
or above median nervure and its third nervule (except, rarely, at its 
outer superior extremity, where a narrow projection sometimes reaches , 
subcostal nervure), and much narrowed inferiorly by broadening in- | 
ward of hind-marginal border from near posterior angle. Hind-wing : 
basal suffusion extending more or less along inner margin beyond 
middle ; costal-apical patch very large, extending to base of third 
(and sometimes of second) median nervule ; hind-marginal border very 
narrow, sharply and regularly dentating orange between nervules; 
orange-red just enters extremity of discoidal cell. Under side. — 
Hind-wing and border of fore-wing greyish or ferruginous-brown {rarely j 
]jurplish-lake)j the former luith transverse rows of indistinct dark- edged 1 
shining -grey or sub-metcdlic spots, and usucdly ivith more or less luhitish 
suffusion on disc. Fore-iving : costa near base thinly edged with white ; 
ordinary black spots arranged as in Arcmda, Wallengr., but very rarely 
any silvery white-centred ones below median nervure ; last blackish 
spot of submarginal row usually much suffused interiorly ; posterior 
angle whitish ; an additional hind-marginal row of rather indistinct 
elongate dark spots. Hind-iving : spots arranged as in Aranda, but | 
