128 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



Localities of Metieris Tulhaghia. 



I South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Cape Town. Kalk Bay. Bain's Kloof. 

 Genadendal {G. Hettarsch). Swellendam Mountains [Burchell). 

 Knysna. 



h. Eastern Districts. — " Port Elizabeth {S. D. Bairstoiv)." Grahams- 

 town : Highlands and Brookhuyzen's Poort. Queenstown Dis- 

 trict : Windvogelberg {Dr. Batho). Burghersdorp {D. R. Kan- 

 nemeyer). 



d. Basutoland. — Maseru (/. H. BoivJcer). 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo River (/. IT. Boioher). 



E. Natal. 



h. Upper Districts. — Hermansburg. Tunjumbili. Greytown. 

 K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District [T. Ayres). 



Sub-Family 3.— ACR^IN^. 



Heliconides (part), Boisd., Sp. Gen. Lep., i. p. 165 (1836). 

 Acrceidce, Doubl., Gen. Diurn. Lep., i. p. 137 (1848). 

 Acrcemce, Bates, Journ. Ent., 1861, p. 220; 1864, p. 176. 



Imago. — Head of moderate size (rather broad in genus Acrcca), 

 clothed with close down ; eyes smooth, rather prominent ; palpi 

 rather long, divergent, 'ascendant, rather scantily clothed with hair 

 (which is longer beneath), — the second joint long, usually more or less 

 thickened or swollen, — the terminal joint very small or even minute ; 

 antennce rather long and thick, with a rather abruptly formed flattened 

 club. 



Thorax compressed laterally, narrow, short, downy ; prothorax very 

 distinctly defined, more or less hairy. Fore-ivings elongate, sometimes 

 markedly produced in apical portion ; costa almost straight, only 

 slightly curved at base and near apex, which is rounded ; hind-margin 

 entire, rather convex, except when apical portion is produced, making 

 lower part hollowed ; posterior angle much rounded ; inner-margin 

 nearly straight ; discoidal cell of moderate length or rather short, narrow, 

 closed obliquely by the more or less strongly outward-bent lower disco- 

 cellular nervule, which (except in Adinote) is much longer than the 

 middle one ; first subcostal nervule originating a little before or at 

 extremity of cell, second at a considerable distance beyond it. Hind- 

 ivings rather elongate, much rounded outwardly, sometimes inclining 

 to prominence about middle of hind-margin, which is entire ; costa 

 very prominent at base, but thence remarkably straight ; anal angle 

 not at all marked, much rounded off; inner-margins convex at base, 

 sometimes almost meeting across basal part of abdomen ; costal nervure 

 extending to apex ; discoidal. cell narrow, usually short (in Planema 



