South- African Biifterfiies. 77 



Danais Echeria. The flight of the insects quite con- 

 firmed Mr. Bowker^s description, the $ s coursing pretty 

 rapidly and irregularly over the underwood, while 

 the 9 s hovered flutteringly near the ground, and often 

 settled on leaves. 



In the Collections of the South-African Museum, A. R. 

 Wallace, and R. Trim en. 



Family ACR^ID^. 



Genus AcK.EA, Fab. 

 Acrcea Anacreon, (PI. VI. fig. o, 4, 5). 



Exp. 1 in. 10 lin.— 2 in. 7 lin. 



$ . Fulvous-ochreous ; each v-ing ivith a discal trans- 

 verse roiv of black spots, and a hlach hind-marginal border 

 marhed ivith spots of the ground colour. 



Fore-iving : a conspicuous rounded black spot in dis- 

 coidal cell, near extremity ; another spot, narrower and 

 more oblique, on disco-cellular nervules ; seven spots in 

 irregular discal row, of which the 5th and 6th are largest, 

 the first (near costa) usually indistinct, and the 7th (on 

 inner margin beyond middle) frequently wanting ; costa 

 edged with black, which widens into a broad apical 

 border containing seven spots of the ground-colour ; this 

 border gradually narrows to a thin edging at anal angle, 

 its inner edge radiating on the nervures, but leaving the 

 last two spots confluent with the ground-colour ; between 

 summit of discal row and marginal border often some in- 

 distinct yellowish- white scaling ; base clouded with black, 

 widest on inner margin. Hind-wing : no black spot on 

 disco-cellular nervule, but one in cell, near extremity ; 

 another spot before middle, between costal and sub-costal 

 nervures ; seven spots in irregular discal row, of which 

 the last two are largest ; black hind-marginal border 

 moderately broad, diminishing slightly towards anal 

 angle, more or less radiating inwardly on nervures, and 

 enclosing eight sub-lunulate spots rather paler than the 

 ground-colour, or (sometimes) whitish-yellow ; basal 

 black rather deeply piercing cell, and extending broadly 



this and some similar cases more fully iu another laaper ; bnt it is right 

 to note here that the $ of what is generally regarded as a Madagascarene 

 variety of Meroicie (viz. P. Meriones, Felder), does not widely differ from 

 the S . 



