338 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



area) ; six liind-marginal white spots, much smaller than those in fore- 

 wing, especially the upper four ; a more or less developed longitudinal 

 black streak running from the lowest of the median row of spots to the 

 base. Cilia dull-grey, except about anal angle of hind-wing, where it 

 is pure white, and much longer than elsewhere. Undek side. — Fore- 

 iving with white marldngs almost wholly confluent, only the neuration 

 and a hind-marginal line hcing Uach ; hind-iving much as cthove, hut 

 Mnd-marginal honlcr without any inward hlacJcish diffusion ; both wings 

 %oith a pcde-red costal edging. Fore-wing : at posterior angle the lowest 

 (bisected) spot of hind-marginal series distinct, black-edged inwardly ; 

 some faint greyish traces of the boundaries of the principal markings ; 

 costal red edge bright at base and extending faintly to apex. Hind- 

 wing : a conspicuous red edging all along inner margin ; costal red 

 edging paler ; and usually some red of the same paler tint immediately 

 preceding sharply-defined black hind-marginal border, and also extending 

 over the space between median nervure with its first nervule and sub- 

 median nervure ; all the black spots very sharply defined ; white hind- 

 marginal spots larger and better defined than on upper side. 



Head : above black, with three white spots in front, one between 

 antenna), and two (very conspicuous) just behind antennas ; eyes 

 externally edged with Avhite ; ^ja//)i black above, with a white spot at 

 end of middle joint, ochre-yellow beneath, — short terminal joint black, 

 with a yellow median streak beneath ; antenna) black, the club ochre- 

 yellow beneath. Thorax above black ; the collar ochre-yellow, the 

 pterygodes edged with white, and with an external white spot supe- 

 riorly ; beneath black, with white spots frontally and larger ones and 

 tufts of white hair laterally and posteriorly ; legs ochre-yellow, the 

 femora half-black basally. Ahdomcn above black, with distinct white 

 incision half-rings, and an ochre-yellow anal tuft ; beneath white. 



$ (Figured by Hopffer, op. cit.) Like $, but with blunter, more 

 rounded wings ; some brownish-yellow suffusion about bases and margins 

 of both wings ; hind-wing without submarginal black spots and blackish 

 suffusion. Under side as in $, but submarginal series of spots in 

 hind-wing only represented by the two lowest, which are reduced in 

 size. 



Of this very distinct and exceedingly rare species I have seen only three 

 exam])les of the $ . Ilopffer fouuded the species and genus on a single $ 

 brought by the Peters Expedition from the Zambesi. Two examples from 

 Angola are recorded by ]\Ir. W. F. Kirby in his Catalogue of the late Mr. 

 Hewitson's Collection. The spotting and the under-side tinting of the hind- 

 wings are very peculiar, strongly recalling the aspect of some of the smaller 

 species of Acrcea. 



Colonel Bowker took the three $& above mentioned in November 1S71 

 at Klipilrift (now Barkly), on the Vaal River, in Griqualand West ; they were 

 flying about rapidly on a hill-top, in company with their snow-Avhitc congener, 

 A. Levuhu (Wallengr.). 



