1896.] FEOM NY ASA-LAND. 117 



Var. dirccea : 



Henga, W. of Lake Nyasa, Feb. 1st, 1895. 



"Eose and black white-tailed Fritillary " (R. C.). 



This form varies, not only in the width of the black apical 

 patch of primaries, the position of the second spot of the central 

 transverse series, the width of the black border of the secondaries 

 with its more or less denned submarginal spots, but, curiously 

 enough, the terminal two-fifths of the abdomen may be either 

 ochreous or snow-white. As in the variety axina ( $ , nero) the 

 submarginal spots of the primaries are wanting. The specimen 

 now received bears a strong general resemblance to A. natalica. 



In his paper, published in the 'Proceedings' for 1891, Mr. 

 Trimen lays stress upon the absence of the submarginal spots 

 as a good character for the discrimination of A. axina from 

 A. doubledayi : I am sure that his earlier decision was the correct 

 one, and that this character cannot be relied upon ; in A. ccecilia, 

 var. stenobcea ( $ =lir/as = albomaculala) the submarginal spots are 

 sometimes present, sometimes absent x . 



37. ACRYEA NATALICA. 



Acrcea natalica, Boisduval, Voy. de Deleg. p. 590 (1847). 



cJ $ , Foot of Jakwa Mt., Henga-Nkamanga, W. of Lake Nyasa, 

 Jan. 28th and 29th ; c? , Mtambwi, foot of Nyika plateau, 

 Feb. 4th, 1895. 



rf , " Kose and black Fritillary " ; $ , " Dusky Fritillary " (R. C.}. 



With our present extensive series it is impossible to keep 

 A. pseudecjina distinct from A. natalica, of which it is only the 

 Western phase, the two extremes are completely linked by inter- 

 grades. 



38. ACR^A CALDARENA. 



Acrcea caldarena, Hewitson, Ent. Month. Mag. xiv. p. 52 

 (1877). 



d" 2 5 taken in coita, Kondowi, Lower Nyika, April 6th, 1895. 



I gave the correct synonymy of this species (if species it be) in 

 the ' Proceedings ' for 1893, p. 657. I, however, strongly suspect 

 it to be merely a seasonal development of A. ccecilia, var. stenobcea, 

 from which it chiefly differs in the broad black apical patch on 

 the primaries. 



39. ACILEA ASEMA. 



Acrcea asema, Hewitson, Ent. Month. Mag. xiv. p. 52 (1877) ; 

 Trimen, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 24, pi. iv. figs. 3, 3 a. 



Acrcea empusa, Butler, P. Z. 8. 1893, p. 656. 



Acrcea omrora, Trimen, P. Z. 8. 1894, p. 24, footnote. 

 $ , Luinpi B-., Lower Nyika, Feb. 2nd, 1895. 

 : " Small speckled Fritillary " (R. C.). 



1 My identification of A. stcnobcsa with a S.-African male of A. ligus was 

 confirmed by Prof. Aurmllius during his recent visit (Aug. 1805). 



