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II. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



a. West Coast. — Damaraland (C. J. Andersson and John A. Bell) ; 



also, " Swakop Eiver (Wahlherg)." — Wallengren). Angola 

 (" Boma : /. /. Monteiro — Druce). Congo [Coll. Brit. Mus.] 

 ai. Interior. — Khama's Country, near Bamangwato (H. Barber). 

 Tati (C. Hart). " Eamaqueban Eiver {Oates)." — Westwood. 



b. East Coast. — "Lake Jipe (0. Kersten)." — Gerstacker. 



6 1. Interior. — -"Victoria Nyanza {Rev. J. Hannington)." — A. G. 

 Butler. 



B. North Tropical. 



a. West Coast. — Gold Coast (Lieut. Eichards, E.N.) "Guinea" — 

 Gerstacker. " Senegambia " — Gerstacker. "Gambia Eiver" — ■ 

 Feisthamel. 



h. East Coast. — " Abyssinia {Lefebvre) " — Gu^rin-Meneville ; and 

 (" Ferret et GaUnier ") — Eeiche. 



hh. Socotra {Balfour), 



37. (•!.) Acrssa cerasa, Hewitsou. 



Acrsea cerasa, Hewits., Exot. Butt., ii. pi. xx. f. 10 [c^] (1861). 



Expl. al., {$) I in. S|-ii lin. ; ($) i in. 10 lin. — 2 in. 3 lin. 



^ Semi-transparent ; hrich-rcd loith hlack spots ; outer half of fore- 

 iving and narroio hind-marginal border of hind-ioing (wider near apex) 

 fascous-grey. Fore-iving : base and inner margin near it blackish ; red 

 only extending as far as an oblique line from extremity of discoidal 

 cell to a little before posterior angle ; costa, apex, and hind-margin 

 rather widely bordered with fuscous ; in discoidal cell usually a large 

 ovate black spot, and at its extremity a small sublinear spot; occa- 

 sionally a minute spot near base below median nervure ; and very 

 rarely, two (one above the other) faintly marked on edge of red, about 

 middle, above and below second median nervule. Hind-iving : base 

 pale-fuscous ; five spots in basal region, of which one is in discoidal 

 cell ; a central irregular transverse row of seven small spots. Under 

 SIDE. — More glossy, paler, the red fainter, the spots not so well-de- 

 fined ; bases and margins scarcely fuscous. Fore-iving : spot at ex- 

 tremity of discoidal cell obsolete. 



$ Larger ; the red paler and duller. Hind-wing : grey border 

 wider in apical region ; near hind-margin, between third median ner- 

 vule and sub-median nervure, a row of three very small black spots. 



There is much instability in the spotting of this butterfly as regards 

 both size and number of spots. In several males taken near Pinetown 

 in Natal the spots of the hind-wing are very small, and in one example 

 are wholly wanting, with the exception of two near the base ; while 

 in one ^ there is no spot in the fore-wing except the linear one at 

 the extremity of the discoidal cell, and in another even that spot is 

 obsolete. 



Larva. — Above livid-purplish ; a central dorsal dull-greenish 



