100 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



on its inner edge. UNDER-SIDE. Black markings much as 

 on upper-side ; but differing much in ground-colours ; surface 

 generally glistening, as in A. Hypatia. Fore-wing : pale 

 salmon-red ; black suffusion at base faint, and only present 

 below median nervure ; two black spots on cOsta, close to 

 base ; space between black costal stripe and black-bordered 

 apex, whitish ; bordering this white outwardly, and con- 

 tinuing to submedian nervure, a row of six large, elongate, 

 somewhat wedge-shaped, orange-ochreous spots. Hind-wing .* 

 pinkish-white; the basal black assumes the form of an irregu- 

 larly-shaped, but strongly-defined, black patch, containing 

 six quadrate or triangular, small, white spots ; costa at base 

 rather broadly edged with salmon-red, containing a more or 

 less conspicuous black spot ; outer edge of basal patch is 

 also clouded with salmon -red ; spots in central part of wing 

 arranged as above two additional ones continue the trans- 

 verse row to inner-margin ; these spots are very conspicuous, 

 from the white ground-colour they are on ; hind^marginal 

 band broad and black, containing seven or eight moderately- 

 sized white spots ; the band being bordered inwardly by a 

 row of seven sub-triangular, brick-red spots. 



VAR, A. (from West Africa). Fore-wing : all dull semi- 

 transparent grey ; black spots arranged as usual ; a red flush 

 at anal angle ; beyond costal black stripe, a whitish patch. 

 Hind-wing : hind-marginal band more suffused inwardly, and 

 occasionally containing a row of spots of the ground-colour. 



This is a very handsome and conspicuous species; but I am unacquainted 

 with the female. The apical portion of fore-wing is more produced in A. 

 Zetes, than in any other South African Acraa I have seen. Drury's figures 

 appear to be those of the variety just described, from West Africa, but are 

 much too highly coloured ; more especially the under-side, which does not 

 agree even with his own description. 



The Butterfly appears to be not uncommon at Natal. 



Natal. Coll. mini, et S. A. Mus. 



Port Natal. West Africa. Sierra Leone. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



63. Acrsea Petrsea. 



Acraea Petraea, JBoisd., App. Toy. de Deleg., p. 589, n. 49. 

 E.Doubl.,App. List Lep. Brit. Mus. y 



[p. 18. 



Expands 1 in. 11 lin. 2 in. 51in. 



. Brick-red, inclining to orange ; spotted with black, and 

 with black borders, fore-wing > base suffused with black, 

 rather widely so towards inner-margin ; costa rather narrowly 

 edged with black ; whole of hind-margin with a narrow black 

 border, which radiates strongly upon the nervules ; apex is 



