100 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA. AUSTRALIS. 



on its inner edge. Under-side. — Black markings much as 

 on upper-side ; h2d differing much in ground-colours ; surface 

 generally glistening, as in ^4. Hypatia. Fore-wing : pale 

 salmon-red ; black suffusion at base faint, and only present 

 below median nervure ; two black spots on costa, close to 

 base ; space between black costal stripe and black -bordered 

 apex, whitish ; bordering this white ouhoardly, and con- 

 tinuing to submedian nervure, a row of six large, elongate, 

 somewhat wedge-shaped, orange-ochreous spots. Hind-wing : 

 pinkish-iohite ; the basal black assumes the form of an irregu- 

 larly-shaped, but strongly-defined, black patch, containing 

 six quadrate or triangular, small, white spots ; costa at base 

 rather broadly edged with salmon-red, containing a more or 

 less conspicuous black spot ; outer edge of basal patch is 

 also clouded with salmon-red ; spots in central part of wing 

 arranged as above — two additional ones continue the trans- 

 verse row to inner-margin ; these spots are very conspicuous, 

 from the white ground-colour they are on ; hind-marginal 

 band broad and black, containing seven or eight moderately- 

 sized white spots ; the band being bordered inwardly by a 

 row of seven sub-triangular, brick-red spots. 



Var. a. (from West Africa). — Fore-iving : all dull semi- 

 transparent grey ; black spots arranged as usual ; a red flush 

 at anal angle ; beyond costal black stripe, a whitish patch. 

 Hind-iving : hind-marginal band more sufl'used inwardly, and 

 occasionally containing a row of spots of the ground-colour. 



This is a very handsome and conspicuous species; but I am unacquainted 

 with the female. The apical portion of fore-wing is more produced in A. 

 Zetes, than in any other South African Acrcea I have seen. Drury's figures 

 appear to be those of the variety just described, from West Africa, but are 

 much too highly coloured ; more especially the under-side, which does not 

 agree even with his own description. 



The Butterfly appears to be not uncommon at Natal. 



Natal.— Coll. mihi, et S. A. Mus. 



Port Natal. — West Africa. Sierra Leone. — Coll. Brit. Mus. 



63. Acrsea Petraea. 



Acraea Petrsea, Boisd., App. Fay. de Deleg., p. 589, n. 49. 

 jj ,, „ E.Doubl.,App. List Lep.Brit. Mus. f 



[p. 18. 

 Expands 1 in. 11 lin. — 2 in. 51in. 



$ . Brick-red, inclining to orange ; spotted luith blacky and 

 with black borders. Fore-wing : base sufl'used with black, 

 rather widely so towards inner-margin ; costa rather narrowly 

 edged with black ; whole of hind-margin with a narrow black 

 border, which radiates strongly upon the nervules ; apex is 



