NOTES OX A COLLECTIOX OF BUTTERFLIES RECENTLY BROUGHT 

 FROM CAPE COAST, WEST AFRICA, WITH DESCRIPTION OF A 

 NEW SPECIES FROM NATAL. 



]}r A. Vr. butlp:k, f.l.s. 



My friend Charles liartou, Esq., of Maueliester, recently wrote 

 to uie, advising me of the arrival of a rather fine collection of West 

 African buttei'llies, from which the following species, formerly desi- 

 derata to the cabinets of the British Museum, have been selected : 



CUAKAXES EpHYRA, Godt. ? . 



The female of this species differs from that of C. Ethdion in the 

 straighter costa of jnnmaries, the white band of which is not clouded 

 with blue, and is of the form of the pale tawny. ochreous band of 

 C. Viola ; the basal ai"ea is also richly shot with purple: this insect is 

 very interesting,' as proving the entire distinctness in both sexes of 

 C. Ethalion and C. Ephyra. 



ItuMALEOSOMA SAUCOPTEKA, Butl. ^. 



A line male of this rare species, differing in no respect from 

 the type. 



PSEUDACR.EA STRIATA, Butl. $ . 



The mule was also in the collection and is now in Mr. Druce's 

 hands. 



PsEUDACR^A BorSDUVALTI, Uoubl. ^, ?. 



The male of this species is exceedingly rare ; Mr. Trimen speaks 

 (if having seen a specimen fron^ Old Cahibar in Mr. Hewitson's col- 

 lection ; he, moreover, figures the Natal species (both sexes) as a 

 \ariety of the same — influenced, no doubt, by a curious, apparently 

 intermediate, aberration of the latter in the South African ^Museum : 

 as I now have an opportunity of comparing Ihc two males, and as I 

 find that they mimic respectively two entirely distinct species of Acrcca 

 (referable to two of Doublcday's sections of the genus), I describe 

 the Natal species as follows : 



PsEUDACKj'A Trim EN 1 1, //. Hp. 



PfDwpra Tioisf/itralii, r(rr.,Tr']m('U,Ti';\]ii<. Linn. Sue, wvi. pi. xxvi, 

 figs. S, 9 (ISC,9). 



(J. A\nngs above reddish-tawny (possibly crimson in fresh 

 specimens), primaries spotted and streaked as in P. iio/W/zi-rt///, apical 

 half of wiuirs tran.-^lucent-brnwn, crot-sed bv a broad salmon-coloured 



