76 Mr, H. Eltringham's Monograph of the 



the marginal border is a little broader and the pale spots more 

 distinct. Beneath, the h,-w. has a still wider border and very- 

 large pale marginal spots. Discal spots arranged as in neohnle. 

 The black, white-centred, basal spots in la, Ic, and cell are 

 smaller, (especially in Ic) and almost of equal size. 



One $ from Zumbo on the Zambesi K. in Portuguese E 

 Africa. Mus. Colleg. St. Fiel. 



A. neohule is a variable species, and the present example 

 differing from it but slightly, will probably prove to be 

 merely a local form of the same. The figure {I. c.) is a 

 rather poor photograph which however shows the specimen 

 to differ from both neohule and seis in havinor the f.-w. 

 fully scaled, and in the h-.w. a broader black border and 

 fewer spots. 



24. ACRAEA HORTA. PI. VII, f. 1. PI. XV, f. 16. 



Acraea horta, Linnaeus, (Pap.) Mus. Lud. Ulr., p. 234(1764) 

 Syst. Nat, ed. 12, p. 755 (1767); Fabricius, Syst. Ent. 

 p. 459 (1775) ; Sulzer, Ges. Ins., p. 143, pi. 15, f. 1 (1776) 

 Cramer, Pap. Exot., 4, p. 18, pi. 298, f. F, G. (1780) 

 Drury, 111. Exot. Ins., 3, p. 37, pi. 28, f. 1, 2 (1782) 

 Wulfen, Ins. Cap., p. 31 (1786); Herbst, Naturs. Schmett 

 5, p. 22, pi. 83, f. 1, 2 (1792); Fabricius, in Illiger's Maga- 

 zine (Acraexx), 6, p. 284 (1807) ; Godart, Enc. Meth., 9, 

 p. 231 (1819) ; Doubl, Hew., and Westw., Gen. Di. Lep., 

 p. 140 (1848) ; Trimen, Rhop. Af. Austr., p. 93 (1862) ; 

 Trimen, S. Af. Butt, (metam.), 1, p. 134-6 (1887);Staudir)ger 

 Exot. Schmett, 1, p. 82, pi. 33 (1885) ; Brunner v. Watten- 

 wyl, Farbenpr. der Ins., p. 5, pi. 4, f. 43 (1897) ; Aurivillius, 

 Rhop. Aeth.,p. 89(1898) ; Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 192 

 (1908) ; Marshall, Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 337 (1902). 

 Cape Colony ; Natal ; Zululand ; Transvaal ; Pondo- 



LAND. 



^ . Expanse about 50 mm. F.-w. semitransparent, the discal 

 scales being modified into a narrow bifid form. Some hairs 

 present and the membrane of the wing speckled with brown at 

 points of attachment of scales. Costa and hind margin slightly 

 dusted with blackish, frequently a suggestion of red internervular 

 spots at apex. Base black. A bright red (brick red in old 

 specimens) basal suffusion extending a little beyond end of cell, 

 very slightly into area 3, half way across 2, and almost com- 

 pletely filling la, and lb. A transverse black spot at end of 

 cell on discocellulars. A spot in cell beyond the middle, one 



