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ZERITIS. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
neriene. 
amine. 
aurivilHi. 
piilcherri- 
ma. 
p. Both wings also in the basal half of a bright orange with small black spots or clots. Z. aurivillii. 
**. Both wings beneath monotonously bright orange with separate black streaks or small spots. 
Z. 'pulcherrima. 
B. Wings without dark submarginal dots in the yellow marginal band. Wings above far beyond the middle 
blackish-brown with or without small reddish-yellow discal spots; before the fine black marginal line with 
a reddish-yellow marginal band consisting of quadrangular spots only separated by the black veins. 
Z. sorhageni. 
Z. neriene Bsd. (70 a) was never described and only figured from beneath by Boisduval. But on 
inserting the species in my work ,,Rhopalocera Aethiopica“ I had before me also a figure of the only typical 
specimen from above, which was most kindly communicated to me by Mr. Charles Oberthur in Rennes who 
owns Boisduval’s collection, and was reproduced here. The small tails of the hindwing are absent. I do not, 
however, dare to decide whether they are in fact absent in neriene. Instead of a description made according 
to the figure it suffices to refer to the figure. The extent of the black markings above seems to be somewhat 
variable. Guinea, Rhodesia. —- amine Btlr. (69 h) I have formerly considered as a synonym of neriene. But 
as both Bittler (An. Mag. Nat. Hist. [7] 8 p. 58, 1901) and Druce (Trans. Ent. Soc. London 1905, p. 252) 
assert, though without mentioning differences, that neriene and amine are different, I shall for the present 
regard amine as a separate form. But that amine is very closely allied with neriene and can hardly be more 
than a form of it, seems to me to follow from the entirely homogeneous scheme of markings in both. If we 
take no account of the small tails, amine seems only to deviate by the greater extent of the black mar¬ 
kings above and of the reddish-yellow ones beneath; this difference cannot be very essential, particularly 
since also in neriene , as was mentioned above, this extent is not invariable. Ashanti, Dahomey and Niger. 
Z. aurivilHi Schultze (70a) is not before me; Schultze describes it as follows: ,,Above: ground¬ 
colouring of a bright orange as in neriene, but the black markings much scantier than in neriene. Black are 
only: on the forewing two indistinct dots next to each other in the discal cell, the median band, composed of 
rectangular spots (in 1 a, 2 and at the end of the discal cell), the discal band consisting of quite similar 
spots (in 1 b to 5), minute submarginal dots in 1 b to 6, and a very fine black marginal line. On the hind¬ 
wing are only black: a blurred transverse spot at the end of the discal cell, rudiments of the discal band in area 
5 and indistinct submarginal dots in areas 1 e to 7, and likewise a fine black marginal line. Beneath: ground¬ 
colour of a lustrous reddish Isabel-colour. Basal dots, median band and discal band complete; the submarginal 
dots of the forewing are expanded into small (proximally open) crescents, those of the hindwing at least more 
distinct than above. In neriene the bands are darker than the ground-colour, whereby at least the hindwings 
appear like a chess-board; in cCurivillii, however, the spots are for the greatest part not differently coloured 
from the ground-colour, so that only the transverse streaks distally and proximally bordering on the spots 
stand out in bold relief, whereby the under surface looks striated. Transverse streaks and submarginal dots 
are orange with black and for the greatest part also dense silvery scaling. Spots of a similar colouring are 
on the forewing in areas 8 to 10. The small tails (as far as they are present) are black, the fringes grey.“ 
The only specimen, a was captured by Schultze himself near Demssa in Adamaua, when it was flying around 
blossoming acacias; later on also met with in South Cameroon. 
Z. pulcherrima Auriv. (69 h?; without small tails!). Frons whitish with some black dots and bristles. 
Palpi white; the last joint above black; chest, legs, and ventrum whitish; dorsum blackish with a rust-coloured 
yellow collar; abdomen above and laterally reddish-yellow with a black dorsal line. Antennae black with fine 
white ringlets. Wings above of a bright reddish-yellow with black markings which are confluent at the base 
and at the costal margin of the hindwing as in neriene. Forewing above in the basal part as far as the apex 
of the discal cell black with a reddish-yellow spot in the discal cell near its apex; the black colour also covers 
the innermost base of the areas 2 to 5; costal margin as far as vein 10 black, at the base broadly scaled reddish- 
yellow; right behind the middle there is an irregular transverse row of large, angular, black discal spots 
in 1 b to 6; the discal spots 1 b to 3 are more or less united with the black basal part and thereby separate 
three reddish-yellow spots of the ground-colour; the discal spots 4 and 6 are situate more towards the 
margin than the others; a small black discal spot in area 7; then follows between the costal margin and vein 1 
an almost straight black transverse line distally united with black submarginal dots or streaks of the areas 2 
to 5 (to 6); a fine black marginal line thickened at the veins; fringes blackish-grey. Hindwing above at the 
base as far as the end of the discal cell and at the costal margin almost as far as the apex and vein 6 
black; discal spots 1 to 6 oblong, sometimes narrow and separate, sometimes larger and united with each other, 
