78 Mr. H. Elti'ingbam's Mouor/raph of the 



of thorax latlier blunt and rounded. Pale creamy ochreous. 

 Wing covers streaked with black along position of nervures. 

 Two dorsal, one ventral and two lateral lines of black ochre 

 centred spots. 



" The silk to wliich the tail is attached often covers an area 

 of an inch in diameter." 



Trimen states that the species is extremely common in 

 and about Cape Town. It flies slowly, and the larvae 

 frequently do much damage to passion flowers. Fowls 

 will not eat the larvae, which have a strong and dis- 

 agreeable odour more perceptible than that of the pupa or 

 even of the butterfly. Its distastefulness does not liow- 

 ever preserve it from the attacks of parasites, as Marshall 

 records (Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 337, 1902) that five out of 

 eight pupae were killed by a dipterous parasite. The 

 male armature, though almost indistinmiishable from that 

 of insignis, to which species it bears, in pattern, but little 

 resemblance, is of very ditferent structure from that of 

 A. neolnde, although in other respects Jiorta and neohule 

 bear an extremely close resemblance. 



A. liorta appears to be an essentially S. African 

 species. Trimen gives S. Leone as a locality on the 

 authority of the British Museum, but the specimens so 

 labelled must have been removed as the twenty-six 

 examples in the present series bear the labels Cape 

 Colony, Natal, Zululand, and Transvaal. 



Trimen (/. c.) thus describes the pairing of this species : 



" The $ rested on the ground with expanded wings, 

 and the ^ rested on the ^ with his wings also flatly 

 extended. In this position (which was maintained) the 

 heads of the two were held in the same direction, and the 

 extremity of the f abdomen was twisted sideways as in 

 the union of the saltatorial Orthoptera." 



It is interesting to note in this connection that the 

 orifice of the />?«vsa copidatrix is at one side of the cliitinous 

 plate and not central as in most species. 



25. ACRAEA ADMATHA. PI, VII, f. 5. 



Acraea admatJui, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. (Acmea), pi. 3, f. 16, 17 



(1865) ; Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 171 (1891) ; Aurivillius 



Khop. Aeth., p. 88 (1898) ; Gordon, Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 330 



(1902). 



S. Leoxe ; AsHANTi ; Gold Coast ; Old Calabar ; 



