110 RHOPALOCERA AFRIC.E AUSTRALIS. 



coloured with ochreous-brown, on which the dark striae be- 

 tween nervules show distinctly. Hind-wing: base more 

 reddish in tint than on upper-side, the spots larger, blacker ; 

 hind-marginal portion, beyond band, coloured with ochreous- 

 brown ; the dark striae conspicuous, and extending, very 

 faintly, quite across the broad white band. 



Mr. Hewitson's Jganice very strikingly resembles A. Baryta, Linn., Sp., 

 which is a native of Western Africa; and I think it likely that the former 

 will prove to be a variety of the latter. The type specimen of Aganice 

 is in the British Museum. It appears to be a rare insect at Natal, as with 

 tlie exception of one since forwarded to me from D'Urban, Natal, by Mr. 

 R. C. Jones, the above is the only specimen I have seen of this species. 



Port Natal.— Coll. Brit. Mus. 

 Natal (R. C. Jones). — Coll. mihi. 



70. Acrsea Protea. 



Acrsea Protea, mihi. — N. Sp. 



Expands 2 in. — 2 in. 10 lin. 



Allied to A. Aganice, — very variable in colouring. 



Black, tinged with brownish ; ivith lohite hands. Fore- 

 wing : beyond middle, from costa, nearer apex than in Aga- 

 nice, an oblique white band, narrower than, and not so 

 irregular as, in Aga7iice, not reaching below second median 

 nervule, only divided into five (or at most six) portions by 

 the nervules crossing it, and tending towards middle of hind- 

 margin ; on inner-margin, occupying its central portion, is 

 a whitish patch, inclining to a semi-circular form, not rising 

 above third median nervule. Hind-wing : base tinged with 

 ochreous and black-spotted as in Aganice, — but the ochreous- 

 tinged space not extending nearly so far, and the black spots 

 fewer and smaller ; central portion, from costa to inner-mar- 

 gin, occupied by a broad white band, which extends nearer 

 to base than in Aganice, and has its outer edge more irregular 

 — it being strongly indented by conspicuous, short iDlack 

 striae, between nervules, from hind-margin. (Both the inner- 

 marginal marking on fore-wing, and the band on hind-wing, are 

 sometimes pale-yellowish instead of white.) Under-side. — 

 Very similar to that of Aganice ; but the same differences as 

 on upper-side observable in the white bands : the ochreous 

 colouring on apex and hind-margin of both wings brighter 

 than in Aganice, causing the longitudinal dark striae between 

 nervules, from hind-margin, to show more conspicuously. 

 Hind-wing : the reddish tinge at base much fainter and nar- 

 rower than in Aganice. 



Var. a. — The bands similarly arranged ; but all pale 

 ochreous-yellow, instead of white. Under-side. — Paler ; 

 band near apex of fore-wing sometimes almost white. 



