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SOUTII-AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
222. (21.) Zeritis Pierus, (Cramer). 
Plate IX. fig. 6 ( ). 
$ Papilio Pierus, Cram., Pap. Exot., iii. p. 84, pi. ccxliii. fF. e, f (1782). 
Hesperia Suetonius, Pab., Eiit. Syst., iii. i, p. 320, n. 213 (1793). 
^ $ Zeriiis Pierus, Var. B., Trim., Rliop. Afr. Ausfc,, ii. p. 275 (1866). 
Exp. ciL, ($) I in. 2-4I lin. ; ($) i in. 2-5 lin. 
^ Greyish-hroum, with a wide hasal suffusio7i of rather glistening 
hoary-grey ; a small orange marking in each wing, sometimes ohsolete, 
or nearly so, in fore-iving. Fore-wing : orange limited to two or three 
short central rays about the median nervules, and often only repre- 
sented by two small indistinct spots or a few scales, — occasionally 
altogether wanting. Fliiid-iving : hoary-grey suffusion extends along 
inner-marginal area ; orange forming a small patch of two or three 
rays near hind-margin between third median nervule and submedian 
nervure, sometimes much obscured and indistinct. Cilia greyish-white 
(becoming white about posterior angle of fore-wing) interrupted with 
greyish-brown on nervules. Under side. — Varying from ivhitish to 
greyish and ferruginous hrown, with paler glistening dark-edged spots 
in hind-wing. Fore-iving : orange ; silvery- white- centred, black disco- 
cellular, and other spots, quite as in Aranda, Wall en gr. ; additional hind- 
marginal row of spots as in Almeida, Feld., but more distinct. Hind- 
wing : spots arranged for the most part as in Almeida, but considerably 
larger, paler, and with their dark edges much more strongly marked, 
especially exteriorly, — those of discal row elongated and contiguous, 
forming a macular streak interrupted only on third median nervule and 
submedian nervure ; row of submarginal spots obsolete ; hind- marginal 
row almost so, except the two spots next anal angle, which are blackish, 
immediately preceded by a paler mark. 
$ Basal grey suffusion wider, mioced luith dull-yellowish; orange 
paler, more developed in hath wings. Fore-ioing : orange interiorly blend- 
ing insensibly with basal suffusion, reaching narrowly as far as sub- 
median nervure, and from its upper outer extremity on third median 
nervule emitting (as in Almeida, &c.) a ray as far as subcostal nervure. 
Flind-iuing : orange largely developed over hind-marginal area (as in 
Almeida, &c.) ; dentated hind-marginal edging sometimes reduced to 
inter-nervular fuscous spots. Under side. — Usually rather paler than 
in ^, and luith the spots of the hind-iviiig and the marginal ones of both 
wings more distinct. 
This is a very close ally of Almeida, Feld., but distinguishable by the much 
paler brown of the upper side in both sexes, the remarkable limitation of tlie 
orange on the upper side of the ^ , and the disposition and development of the \ 
spots on the under side of the hind-wings, which are so strongly bordered with J 
brown, and in the discal row form an almost continuous streak. It is the I 
exaggeration of this last feature in Cramer's figure above cited which convinced ! 
me that this was the actual butterfly intended to be delineated by that very 
rough representation, which in its darker colouring rather more resembles the 
5 Almeida. 
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