ACR^ID/E. 03 



Papilio Horta, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 298, f. F. G. 



„ „ Herhst, Bek. Ins. — Schmett., V, pi. 83, 



[f. 1, 2. 

 Fah., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 159, n. 491. 

 Telchinia Horta, Iliibn., Ferz. Bek. Schmett. , p. 27. 

 Acraea Horta, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 231, n. 1. 

 ,, ,, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 591. 



Expands 2 in. — 2 in. 8 lin. 



$ . Semi-transparent ; brick-red, with black spots. Fore- 

 wing : base suffused with black ; the red colouring ceasing 

 abruptly a little beyond extremity of discoidal cell ; the 

 apical portion of the wing being of a transparent ashy-grey ; 

 an irregular black streak at extremity of discoidal cell ; in 

 some specimens, a more or less distinct black spot in cell, 

 near its extremity ; occasionally a small blackish spot beneath 

 cell, between second and third median nervules ; more rarely 

 a further small spot nearer base, a little below median ner- 

 vure ; along hind-margin, between nervules, a row of more 

 or less conspicuous brick-red, somewhat triangular spots. 

 Hind-wing : wholly brick-red ; from twelve to fifteen rounded 

 black spots, variable in size, scattered irregularly over the 

 surface to beyond middle ; hind-margin black, intersected 

 with spots between the nervules, which are sometimes pale- 

 yellowish, but often very slightly paler than the ground- 

 colour — (many of them are united to the ground-colour, the 

 line of black bordering them inwardly being generally more 

 or less obliterated in one or more places). Under-side. — 

 Fore-wing : similar, but much paler in tints. Hind-wing : 

 pale creamy-yellowish ; the black spots very conspicuous, 

 those near base more separate than on upper-side, owing to 

 the absence of the black suffusion ; a brick-red patch at base, 

 close to costa ; and a margin of the same colour running 

 round wing from apex to anal angle, and thence to base ; 

 hind-marginal band more perfect than on upper-side, the 

 yellowish spots in it round and conspicuous. 



? . Faint ochrey-reddish, sometimes dingy pale-ochreous. 

 Fore-wing : markings similar, but in the paler specimens 

 almost bereft of colour, and very transparent. Hind-wing : 

 black spots similarly arranged ; in the redder specimens often 

 a blackish suffusion beyond the extremity of discoidal cell, 

 but not reaching hind-marginal band ; in the latter the spots 

 are usually conspicuous from their pale-yellowish tint. Un- 

 der-side. — Quite similar to that of ^ , \)Mt paler. 



Larva. — About \\ in. long ; with strong branched spines. 

 Dull brownish-ochreoiis, closely striped ivith black transverse 

 streaks : the incisions of segments and a line down the back 



