108 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



spots project short, black, narrow, line-like marks, often 

 clouded with ochre, — one midway between each two nervules. 



Specimens from the West Coast of Africa, almost invariably, have the 

 black stripe at extremity of discoidal cell united to the hbul-marginal border; 

 the latter, too, is very rarely unspotted, the spots being usually distinct and 

 numerous. A variety of this species, also from Western Afiica, occurs, 

 chietly among the $ s; it is clouded with dull brownish-grey, particularly 

 on the fore-wing ; in tlie latter wing a «?/;/feA band ov space immediately 

 succeeds the black stri])e at extremity of cell. 



M. Boisduval's figure of the $ of his A. Manjaca, from Madagascar (in 

 pi. 4 of the " Faune Eutomologique de Madagascar, &c.), presents Si further 

 VARIETY of this Butterfly, if correctly coloured ; i\\t fore-wing bring tram- 

 parent greyish -white, tinged with yellowish on costa, with a pale-blackish, 

 yellow-spotted hind-marginal border ; and the disco-cellular stripe reduced 

 to a small blackish crescent ; the hind-wing being very pale didl-ochreous . 



In Madagascar, this Butterfly is found " in March and April ; it flies in 

 woods, and appears to be rather rare." — Boisd., Faune Ent. de Mad., p. 34. 



Natal.— Coll. mihi (C. Morland). 



Natal. Congo. Sierra Leone. — Coll. Brit. Mus. 



68. Acrsea Cynthia. 



Papilio Cynthius, Drurtj, 111. Nat. Hist., Ill, pi. 37, f. 5, 6. 



Papilio Eponina, $ , Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 268, f. A, B. 



Papilio Cynthia, Herhst., Nat. Bek. Ins. — Schmett., IV, 



[pi. 80, f. 1,2. 



Acrsea Cynthia, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 234, n. 13. 

 „ ,, Boisd., jlpp. Voy. de Deleg., p. 590. 



Expands 1 in. 41in. — 2 in. 7 lin. 



BlacTcish-hroion; with red-ochreous, or pale yelloiv-ochreous, 

 hands. Fore-wing : a rather broad, outwardly-inclining-, 

 short, transverse band near apex, from costa to first median 

 nervule ; a short, broader band, intrenching on discoidal cell, 

 on second and third median nervules, about middle of wing, 

 extending close to inner-margin, on submedian nervure be- 

 yond middle; in the red- coloured specimens, a red-ochreous 

 stripe along median nervure from base joins the last mentioned 

 band (or rather patch) ; in the yelloiv-marked specimens, the 

 subcostal and median nervures are clouded with dark-red 

 from base. Hind-wing : base semi-transparent, of a paler 

 brown than rest of ground-colour, so that several black spots 

 of the under-side are visible with more or less distinctness, 

 as far as the inner edge of a very broad red, or pale-yellow, 

 ochreous band (continuous of the lower band in fore-wing), 

 which occupies middle of wing, from costa to inner-margin ; 

 sometimes, a row of indistinct ochreous spots beyond band, 

 near and parallel to hind-margin. Under-side. — Fore-wing : 

 basal portion always flushed with paler or darker brick-red, 

 which, in specimens marked with yellow-ochreous on upper- 



