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58. Acraea Dice. 



Papilio Dice, Drury, Illustr. Nat. Hist., Ill, pi. 18, f. 3, 4. 

 „ ,, Herbst., Bek. Ins. — *S'c/iW(?//.,V, pl.83, f.3,4. 



„ „ Fab., Eat. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 159, n. 492. 



Acraea Quirina, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. ^31, n. 2. 



Expands 1 in. 4 lin. — 2 in. 1 lin. 



$ . Transparent ashy-grey : hind-wing brick-red with 

 black spots. Fore-iving : base blackish ; a brick-red stripe 

 from base, along inner-margin, all the rest of the wing trans- 

 parent grey. HiJid-ioing : semi-transparent, brick-red ; 

 about fifteen black spots, rounded, and of variable size, in 

 basal lialf of wing ; and a row of seven smaller black spots, 

 situate between nervules, parallel to hind-margin, beyond 

 middle, mark the junction of the red with a broad, trans- 

 parent-grey, spotless hind-marginal band ; base dusky- 

 blackish. Under-side. — Very like upper-side. Fore-wing : 

 quite like upperside, perhaps a little paler. Hind-wing : 

 red a little paler ; a stripe at base, extending a little along 

 costa, yellowish-white ; black spots a little more conspicuous. 



? . Markings similar ; but the brick-red replaced by a 

 dull brownish-ochre. Underside. — Hind-wing : ground- 

 colour yellowish-white i instead of red. 



This Butterfly plainly belongs to the Horta group of the Genus ; but 

 may at once be distinguished from the species last described, by the trans- 

 parent-grey, unspotted Ijorder of its hind-wiugs. 



South Africa. Sierra Leone. — Coll. Brit. Mus. 



59. Acraea Violarum. 



Acraea Violarum, Boisd., j4pp.Voy.de Deleg., p. 591, n.58. 



Acrsea Natalensis, {? E. Boubl.), MS. in Brit. Mus. 



Expands 2 in. 2 lin. — 2 in. 4 lin. 



$ . Soft, creamy, brick-red, with an orange tinge ; spotted 

 with black. Fore-wing : base suffused with black ; on hind- 

 margin, a narrow black stripe, widest at apex, diminishing to 

 a point at anal angle ; a short, black, transverse stripe, on 

 costa before middle, crosses discoidal cell to insertion of 

 third median nervule ; a small, narrow, slightly-curved spot 

 occupies the upper portion of the nervules closing dis- 

 coidal cell ; an elongate, transverse stripe of connected 

 black spots, a little beyond cell, from costa to second 

 median nervule ; two black spots below cell, touching 

 median nervure, one between second and third median 

 nervules, the other between third median nervule and sub- 

 median nervure ; near hind-margin, and parallel to it, a row 

 of seven black, rounded spots of moderate size, extending 



