RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIA. 



spots project short, black, narrow, line-like marks, often 

 clouded with ochre, one midway between each two nervules. 



Specimens from the West Coast of Africa, almost invariably, have the 

 black stripe at extremity of discoidal cell united to the hind-marginal border; 

 the latter, too, is very rarely unspotted, the spots being usually distinct and 

 numerous. A VARIETY of this species, also from Western Africa, occurs, 

 chiefly among the $ s ; it is clouded with dull brownish-grey, particularly 

 on the fore-wing ; in the latter wing a whitish band or space immediately 

 succeeds the black stripe at extremity of cell. 



M. Boisduval's figure of the $ of his A. Manjaca, from Madagascar (in 

 pi. 4 of the "Fanne Entomologique de Madagascar, &c.), presents & further 

 VARIETY of this Butterfly, if correctly coloured ; ^fore-wing being trans- 

 parent greyish-white, tinged with yellowish on costa, with a pale-blackish, 

 yellow-spotted hind-marginal border ; and the disco-cellular stripe reduced 

 to a small blackish crescent ; the hind-wing being very pale dull-ochreous. 



In Madagascar, this Butterfly is found " in March and April ; it flies in 

 woods, and appears to be rather rare." Boisd., Faune Ent. de Mad., p. 34. 



Natal. Coll. mihi (C. Morland). 



Natal. Congo. Sierra Leone. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



68. Acrsea Cynthia. 



Papilio Cynthius, Drury, 111. Nat. Hist., Ill, pi. 37, f. 5, 6. 



Papilio Eponina, $ , Cram.) Pap. Exot., pi. 268, f. A, B. 



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



[pi. 80, f. 1,2. 



Acraea Cynthia, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 234, n. 13. 

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



Expands 1 in. 4 lin. 2 in. 7 lin. 



Blackish-brown; with red-ochreous, or pale yellow -ochreous, 

 bands. Fore-wing : a rather broad, outwardly-inclining, 

 short, transverse band near apex, from costa to first median 

 nervule ; a short, broader band, intrenching on discoidal cell, 

 on second and third median nervules, about middle of wing, 

 extending close to inner-margin, on submediaii nervure be- 

 yond middle ; in the red- coloured specimens, a red-ochreous 

 stripe along median nervure from base joins the last mentioned 

 band (or rather patch) ; in the yellow -marked specimens, the 

 subcostal and median nervures are clouded with dark-red 

 from base. Hind-wing : base semi-transparent, of a paler 

 brown than rest of ground-colour, so that several black spots 

 of the under-side are visible with more or less distinctness, 

 as far as the inner edge of a very broad red, or pale-yellow, 

 ochreous band (continuous of the lower band in fore-wing), 

 which occupies middle of wing, from costa to inner-margin ; 

 sometimes, a row of indistinct ochreous spots beyond band, 

 near and parallel to hind-margin. UNDER-SIDE. Fore-wing : 

 basal portion always flushed with paler or darker brick -red, 

 which, in specimens marked with yellow-ochreous on upper- 



