97 



The above description is translated from that of Dr. Boisduval, in the 

 Appendix to M. Delegorgue's " Voyage dans L'Afrique Australe." I give 

 A. Adiaca as a synonym of the $ of A. Nohara, on Mr. Hewitson's own 

 authority. An Acreea in my collection, from Natal, seems to answer to 

 the description given above ; but there is a spot within discoidal cell, and 

 another below median nervure, not far from base, neither of which are 

 mentioned by Boisduval, and the bases of wings are suffused with black. 

 As, however, the describer of the species states that he had but a single 

 specimen, it is quite possible that slight variations in marking may occur. 

 The insect is evidently nearly allied to both A. Violas and A. Fiolarum. 



" Port Natal." Boisd. 

 Natal. Coll. mihi ? 



61. Acrsea Hypatia. 



Papilio Hypatia, Dru., III. Nat. Hist., Ill, pi. 13, f. 1, 2. 

 ? Papilio Caecilia, Fab., Spec. Ins., II, p. 34, n. 142, 

 Mant. Ins., II, p. 16, n. 163. 



Herbst, Nat. Bek. Ins.Schmett., IV, 



[p. 205. 



Papilio Artemissa, Stoll., Suppl. Cram.) Pap. Exot., pi. 25, 



[f. 4, 4 d. 



Papilio Hypatia, Fab., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 163, n. 504. 

 Var. Papilio Cecilia, Fab., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 177, 



[n. 550. 



Telchinia Bendis, Hiibn., Verz. Bek. Schmett., p. 29. 

 Acrsea Cecilia, Godt., Enc. Meih., IX, p. 235, n. 16. 

 Acraea Hypatia, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 590. 

 Var. Acraea Natalica, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 590. 



[n. 57. 



Expands 1 in. 11 lin. 2 in. 10 lin. 



Varies from almost white to pale ochreous, often tinged with 

 soft salmon-red ; spotted and bordered with brownish-black ; 

 slightly transparent. Fore-wing : base suffused with black to 

 a greater or less extent ; apex bordered with black, which 

 narrows into a thin black edging continued to anal angle ; a 

 black spot in discoidal cell, about its centre, and another at 

 extremity of cell ; a row of four united spots forms a short 

 transverse stripe on costa beyond middle ; this row seems 

 as it were continued to a little above and before anal angle, 

 by three separate spots between nervules ; parallel to and 

 within these three, are two other spots, in a line below that at 

 extremity of cell ; a single spot, the nearest to base in the 

 wing, just below median nervure. Hind-wing : base deeply 

 suffused with black ; from three to eight rather small black 

 spots scattered over wing to beyond middle, two on the upper 

 edge of discoidal cell being always present ; a broad, black 

 or brownish black, unspotted band along hind -margin; several 

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