38o SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



considerably wider; hind-marginal border broader, emitting nervular 

 rays inwardly. Under side. — Fore-iving : border as in ^ ; basal fus- 

 cous suffusion and yellowish area beyond both paler than on upper 

 side. Hind-u-ing : whiter than in ^, without reddish tinge ; black 

 spots larger ; hind-marginal border broader, but its internervular sub- 

 marginal dark marks less defined. 



Abdomen with larger white spots. 



This Acrceci has at the first glance much the appearance of a dwarf 

 Horta, but the blackish border of the fore-wings and broad unspotted 

 black border of the hind-wings readily distinguish it. The $ seems 

 most nearly related to A. Fcnckos, Ward,^ from Cameroons and Old 

 Calabar, but has much shorter and blunter fore-wings, with a very large 

 red area in place of only two longitudinal red streaks on the inner 

 margin near the posterior angle ; and in the hind-wings has the inferior 

 discal spots differently shaped and arranged. The $ comes very close 

 to a Madagascar Acrcea described and figured by Saalmiiller ^ as A. 

 Fose(B, but differs in its heavy basal blackish suffusion of both fore and 

 hind wings, and the form and disposition of the black spots of the 

 hind-wings. In the last-mentioned character the $ Igola agrees much 

 better with the $ Masamha, Ward,^ which is, however, a much larger 

 insect, without basal black suffusion, and with very hyaline fore-wings, 

 which bear a dusky spot in the discoidal cell. The $ Masamha has a 

 small field of red in the fore-wings, only filling basal half of cell and 

 not rising above first median nervule, and the discal black spots of the 

 hind-wing are very much larger, especially that next to costa ; more- 

 over the fore-wings are as much elongated apically as in the $ Fendcos. 



Major H. D'Aguilar discovered this butterfly in Zululand during 

 May 1886, and communicated to me through Colonel Bowker the two 

 specimens (^ and $) from which the above description is made. He 

 wrote that the $ s appeared about the middle of May, flying over a 

 yellow-flowered climbing plant in thick forest near Etshowe ; they kept 

 usually about twenty-five feet from the ground, and were not scarce. 

 The only $ observed sat low down and was easily captured ; this 

 example occurred near the end of May, when Major D'Aguilar left the 

 neighbourhood ; but the wings of a second $ were found by him in 

 the same spot. 



Locality of Acrcea Igola. 



I. South Africa. 



F. Zululand. — Etshowe {Major H. UAgidlar). 



^ Ent. 31. Mag., viii, p. 60 (1871); and African Lepidoptera, 1. p. 7, pi. vi. ff. 3, 4 

 (1873), [^1- 



- Lep. Madag., i. p. 76, pi. i. f. 3, [ ? ]. 



^ Ent. M. Mag., ix. p. 3. (1872) ; and African Lepidoptera, ii. p. 10, pi. 7, flf. 3, 4 (1874). 

 See also Saalmuller, op. cit., p. 75, pi. 3, f. 32, for a dull-reddish tinted 9 of this Mada- 

 gascar species. 



