382 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



on the strength of several examples from Delagoa Bay which I saw in 

 Mr. H. Grose Smith's collection in 1886. Its nearest described allies 

 appear to be A. Caldarena, Hewits., and A. Stenohea, Wallengr., but it 

 differs greatly from both these congeners by its deep-red upper side 

 (in the $ sex), and want of basal dusky suffusion and subapical oblique 

 series of spots in the fore-wings, as well as by the disposition of the 

 discal spots, and the existence of large spots of the ground-colour in 

 the hind-marginal border on the upper side, in the hind-wings. The 

 wide unbroken ochre-yellow apical area of the fore-wings in the $ 

 recalls the still larger space in A. Anemosa, Hewits., — a congener in 

 other respects so totally different in marking.-^ 



This species is very rare in collections, and would appear to be so, 

 or possibly extremely local, in nature. Mr. Hewitson's types (a ^ and 

 a $) were from the Zambesi," and the only specimen (a very fine $) 

 sent me by Mr. Selous was taken in Mashunaland, an elevated region 

 not far to the south of that river. Tlie six Delagoa Bay specimens 

 (three $ s, three ^ s) above mentioned were, I believe, captured by 

 Mrs. Monteiro. A solitary example is recorded by M. C. Oberthiir 

 {Etudes cVEntomologie, iii. p. 24, 1878) as having been taken by ]\I. 

 Eaffray in Zanguebar. 



Localities of Acrcca Acrita. 

 I, South Africa. 



H. Delagoa Bay. — Loureufo Marques {Mrs. Monteiro ?). 

 II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



h. Eastern Coast. — "Zanguebar: Tchouacka (i?a/Va//)."— Oberthiir 



"Zanzibar." — Kirby. Cat. Coll. Hewitson. 

 hi. Eastern Interior. — Zambesi, — Coll. Hewitson. Mashunaland (i^. 

 G. Selous). 



Sub-Family NYMPH ALIN^. 

 Genus HARMA. 

 382. (2.) Harma Ooranus, H. G. Smith. 



$ $ Cymothoe Coranus, H. G. Smith, Ann, and Mag. Nat. Hist., Feb. 

 1889, p. 133. 



Ex2J. al, {$) 2 in. 5-6 lin.; (^) 2 in. 6 liu. 



$ Cream-colour; a suhnarginal sharply-dentated black streak of 

 uneqiial thickness, and a hind-marginal narroiv fuscous border ; common 



1 A much closer ally of Acrita, but exhibiting one or two more features of alliance with 

 Caldarena, has lately (1888) been sent to me by Mr. A. W. Eriksson from Tropical South- 

 western Africa. This species presents, however, in the fore-wings, besides the very broad 

 apical black of Caldarena, a subapical loliite patch. 



- In Kirby's Catalogue of the Hewitson Collection, p. 51, Zanzibar is given as the 

 locality of Acrita (of which five examples are recorded) ; but Zambesi was the locality 

 given me by the late Mr. Hewitson for his two type specimens, and is that noted in his 

 published description above cited, \ 



