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specimeus of A. Ilj/palia taken at Natal were paler than those of Western 

 Africa, and resembled Stoll's figures, pi. 25, f. 4, 4 d. These fij^ures re- 

 present the upper and under sides of a very pale specimen, but with broader 

 black margin than usual, which Stoll received from Sierra Leone. 



D'Urban, Natal (R. C. Jones). — Coll. mihi. (var. Natalica, 

 Boisd.) 



Natal. — Coll. S. A. Mus. (var. Natalica, Boisd.) 



Interior of South Africa. Congo. Sierra Leone. — Coll. 

 Brit. Mus. 



Damaraland. — Coll. C. J. Andersson. 



62. Acraea Zetes. 



Papilio Zetes, Linn., Syst. Nat., II, p. 766, n. 110. 



Papilio Menippe, Dru., III. Nat. Hist., Ill, pi. 13, f. 3, 4. 

 „ „ Stoll, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Exot., pi. 28, 



[f. 1. 

 „ „ Herhst, Bek. Ins. — Schmett., V, pi. 81, 



[f. 4, 5. 



Telchinia Zetes, Riibn., Verz.Beh. Schmett., p. 27, n. 217 



Acraea Zethea, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 236, n. 21. 



Expands 2 in. 3 lin. — 2 in. 11 lin. 



$ . Dull brick-red ; with black spots and bands. Fore- 

 wing : base suffused with deep black ; in discoidal cell, three 

 black spots, — one round, touching basal black, — another 

 elongate transversely, somewhat quadrate, a little beyond 

 middle of cell, — the third at extremity of cell, variable in 

 thickness, slightly curved outwards ; three spots below cell, 

 one touching median nervure, and more or less included in 

 the basal black — another touching second median nervule 

 near its insertion — the third a little beyond the second, below 

 third median nervule ; a little beyond extremity of cell, a 

 broad, oblique, black band, directed towards middle of hind- 

 margin, and extending to second median nervule ; apical por- 

 tion of wing, beyond this black band, warm reddish-ochre ; 

 apex rather widely bordered with black, which narrows to a 

 thin, hind-marginal edge on first or second median nervule, 

 where, suddenly widening again, its inner edge is united to the 

 extremity of the oblique band from costa, and it extends to 

 anal angle, containing two or three spots, between nervules, 

 of the apical ochre tint. Hind-wing : base broadly suffused 

 with deep-black ; touching the edge of which, in cell, and 

 about median nervule, is a peculiar and conspicuous clouding 

 of white scales; a small black spot at extremity of discoidal 

 cell, and beyond it, a more or less interrupted row of six or 

 seven rounded spots, parallel to hind-margin ; a broad, well- 

 defined, black band bordering hind-margin, slightly dentate 



