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side, extends as far as lower band (but does not intrench on 

 it), while, in the red-marked specimens, the basal red is con- 

 founded with the lower band ; ground-colour and bands both 

 much paler than on upper-side ; band near apex pale-yellow- 

 ish in all specimens ; hind-margin rather broadly bordered 

 with dusky -grey, most widely so at apex ; crossing the grey 

 between nervules, from apex to anal angle, a series of yellow- 

 ochre, elongate rays or triangular marks, edged with blackish, 

 and broadest on hind-marginal edge. Hind-wing: base 

 greyish ; two short, transverse rows of irregularly-shaped 

 black spots enclose a dull-red band, immediately before me- 

 dian band, wlrich is always pale-yellowish ; hind-marginal 

 grey much broader than in fore-wing, reaching to outer edge 

 of median band ; and the rays crossing it, which are pale- 

 yellowish on hind-marginal edge, and orange-ochreous in- 

 wardly, are prolonged as far as the grey is broad, giving the 

 border of the wing a very beautiful and peculiar, deeply - 

 vandyked appearance. 



A VARIETY of this elegant Butterfly, from West Africa, 

 is in the British Museum. This specimen is so strongly 

 suffused with dull grey-brown, that the distinctive markings 

 on upper-side are almost obliterated. 



All the South African specimens that I have seea, amounting to nine in 

 number, are of the yellow-marked variety. In Western Africa, both the 

 red and yellow marked specimens are found ; so that it is possible the 

 former may also occur at Natal. 



Natal. Coll. mini (C. Morland), et Coll. S. A. Mus. 

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

 " Amazoulu Country." Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg. 



69. Acrsea Aganice. 



Acraea Aganice, Hewits., Exot. Butt*, pt, II, pi. 6, f. 3. 



Expands 3 in. 8 lin. 



Dull-black, tinged with brown ; with white bands. Fore* 

 wing : on costa, a little beyond middle, commences a trans- 

 verse, rather irregularly -shaped, white band, divided into 

 eight portions of variable size and shape by the nervules 

 crossing it, and almost reaching anal angle ; from hind-mar- 

 gin extend short striae, between nervules, slightly darker 

 than ground-colour. Hind-wing : base slightly tinged with 

 ochreous, and spotted with black ; central portion of wing 

 occupied by a very broad, white band, from costa to inner- 

 margin ; from hind-margin extend long striae, slightly darker 

 than ground-colour, between the nervules, piercing the broad 

 white band. UNDERSIDE. Much paler; white markings 

 similar to upper-side. Fore-wing : apex and hind-margin 



