APPENDIX I. 



ADDITIONAL SPECIES, RECENTLY ASCERTAINED 

 TO BE SOUTH-AFRICAN. 



VOL. I. 



Family NYMPHALID^. 

 Sub-Family ACR^IN^. 

 Genus ACR^A. 



379. (3a.) Acrsea Machequena, H. G. Smith. 



Acroea Macheque7ia, H. G. Smith, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 5th Ser., xix. 

 p. 62 (1887). 



UX2J. al., ($) I in. 9 lin. — 2 in.; ($) 2 in. 2-3 lin. 



^ Pale yellowish-red, semi-trans2xirent ; fore-iving with hroad apical 

 area transparent grey ; hhid-wing ivith basal, discal, and suhmarginal 

 black spots. Fore-wing : spotless ; yellowish red bounded by costa as 

 far as extremity of discoidal cell, inner margin to posterior angle, and 

 disco-cellular nervules, — below discoidal cell it extends more towards 

 hind-margin, presenting a somewhat convex outer edge as far as poste- 

 rior angle. Hind-wing : base narrowly blackish ; in discoidal cell two 

 spots, of which one (close to base) is smaller than the other (about 

 middle) ; a minute terminal disco-cellular spot ; three spots below cell, 

 near base, of which the two lower ones (close to inner margin) are 

 smaller than the upper one ; about middle, a sinuated discal series of 

 eight rather small spots (of which the third and fourth are sometimes 

 obsolescent, and the sixth is nearer base than the rest) ; hind-margin 

 itself narrowly edged with fuscous-grey, which is immediately preceded 

 by a series of six good-sized internervular hastate black spots, each of 

 which is bounded outwardly by a smaller spot of the ground-colour 

 interrupting the fuscous-grey edging. Under side. — Reddish areas 



