34 Lloyd's natural history. 



species are more varied in their markings, though rarely 

 spotted, and are never transparent. 



The possession of a horny pouch in the females of many 

 species is remarkable, for it is a character which attains its 

 maximum of development in Parnassius, and other genera of 

 Pafiilionincz. The common Australian Acrcza andromache 

 (Fabricius) is mimicked by the female of Eurycus cressida 

 (Fabricius), a species belonging to a genus allied to Parnassius^ 

 and which, curiously enough, likewise possesses a pouch. 



The genus Acrcca was divided by Doubleday into six sec- 

 tions, which later entomologists have treated as genera or 

 sections according to their various views; and one or two other 

 genera have been proposed since. But the genus ALcna pro- 

 posed by Boisduval for a small South African species, has 

 lately been removed from the Acnci/iic, as it proves to belong 

 to the Lyccenidcs. 



GENUS ACR/EA. 

 Acrcea, Fabr. in Illiger, Magazin fiir Insektenkunde, vi., p. 

 284 (1807); Latr.j Enc. Meth., ix., pp. 10, 227 (1819); 

 Doubl., Gen. Diurn. Lep., p. 140 (1848); Trimen, Rhop. 

 Afr. Austr., p. 92 (1862); id., S. Afr. Butt., i., p. 131 

 (18S7); Schatz, Exot. Schmett., ii., p. 101 (1887). 

 Type, Acnca horta (Linn.), from South and West Africa. 



ACR.^A HORTA. 



Fapilio horta, Linn., Mus. Ludov. Ulr., p. 234 (1764); Drury, 

 111. Ex. Ent., iii., pi. 28, figs. 1, 2 (1782); Cram., Pap. 

 Exot, iv., pi. 298, figs. F. G. (1780). 



Acrcca horta, Godart, Enc. Me"th., ix., p. 231 (1819); Triir.en, 

 Rhop. Afr. Austr., i., p. 92 (1862) ; id., S. Afr. Butterflies, 

 i., p. 134 (1887); Staud. Exot. Schmett., i., p. S2, pi. 7,3 

 (1885). 



This is a brick-red insect, with the outer portion of the 



