102 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



the radiations of black on nervules, from hind-marginal band, 

 usually broader and blacker, making the rays of ground- 

 colour between them narrower and sharper than in $ . Un- 

 der-side. — Fore-wing : pale-brownish ; white patch not so 

 conspicuous as on upper-side ; blackish spots as in S , but 

 no additional one below median nervure ; nervules clouded 

 with blackish near hind-margin ; inter-nervular rays dull 

 yellow-ochre. Hind-wing : dull yellowish-white ; black spots 

 as in $ ; scarcely any traces of the interspersed pale-reddish 

 marks ; hind-marginal band as in $ , the spots contained in 

 it rather more yellowish ; series of marks immediately within 

 band dull yellow-ochreous, ill-defined, usually clouded inwardly 

 with a few blackish scales. 



This handsome species appears as yet only to have been taken in the 

 Colony of Natal, M. Boisduval states that M. Delegorgue found it " very 

 common in the environs of Port Natal." 



Natal (R. C. Jones).— Coll. mihi. 

 Natal.— Coll. S. A. Mus. 

 Port Natal.— Coll. Brit. Mus. 



62. Acrsea Lycia. 



Papilio Lycia, Fab., Syst. Ent., p. 464, n. 94. 



„ „ Herbst., Beh. Ins. — Schmett., IV, p. 171. 



„ Fab., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 176, n. 546. 



Acrasa Lycia, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 239, n. 30. 



Acraea Sganzini, Boisd., Faune Ent. de Mad., pi. 6, f. 6, 7. 

 „ ,, ^pp. Voy. de Deleg., p. 590. 



Acraea Lycia, Doubl.Westiv.SfHewits,Gen.Diurn.Lep., 



[pi. 19, f. 2. 



Acra9a Sganzini, Douhl., App. List. Lep. Brit. ilfw5., p. 18. 



Expands 1 in. 10 lin. — 2 in. 8 lin. 



Dull-whitish, or vjhitish-ochreous ; with black spots. Fore- 

 wing : apical portion, from extremity of discoidal cell, dusky- 

 blackish, narrowing abruptly to a point at anal angle ; an 

 oblique broad band of five elongate white spots (the first four 

 of which are united, the fifth smaller and generally separate), 

 crosses the apical black, dividing it about equally, from costa 

 almost to middle of inner-margin ; before middle, in discoidal 

 cell, an elongate, transverse, black spot, irregular in shape ; 

 occasionally, a smaller ovate spot between the latter and base; 

 at extremity of cell, a large blackish spot, hardly apparent — 

 being merged in apical black ; below this spot three or four 

 others, situate between nervules, form a curved, transverse 

 row to inner-margin not far from anal angle ; sometimes, also, 

 a small black spot near base, below median nervure. Hind- 

 wing: base dusky-blackish, hind-margin with a dusky-blackish, 



