142 SOUTH- AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



duller, varying from pale reddisb-ochreous to obscure oclireous-brown 

 inclining to pale-fuscous ; the spots usually larger, and the hind- 

 marginal border of the hind-wings wider. 



A $ specimen in the Hewitson collection has a dull-whitish suf- 

 fusion over the upper median region of the hind-wings. 



I met Avith this handsome Acrcva not uncommonly in Natal, where it 

 frequents hillsides and table-lands, preferring the sheltered hollo-\vs. Its flight 

 is very low, and it often settles among the herbage and on flowers. Though 

 having the gregarious inclination of the Acrcece generalh', this butterfly was in 

 no place at all abundant, but Avas more prevalent inland than on the coast. 

 February and March were the months in Avhich my specimens Avere captured, 

 but Angas {pp. cit.) notes the species as occurring in October. 



Localities of Acrcea Violarum. 



I. South Africa. 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — Jojo's Country, North Pondoland {Sir 11. 



Barkly). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban (/. ^. i5o?r/r(?r), Umhlanga. Verulam. 



Mapumulo. 

 h. Upper Districts. — Fort Buckingham, Tugela. Hermansburg. In- 

 tzutze. Great Noodsberg. 

 r. Zululand.— St. Lucia l^ay \H. Tower). 

 K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom and Lydenburg [T. Ayres). 



39. (6.) Acrsea Nohara, Boisduval. 



Acroea Nohara, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg. dans I'Afr. Aust., p. 590, 



n. 54[cJ]{i847). 

 Acrcea Actiaca, HeAA'its., Exot. Butt., i. pi. 29, f. 3 [(^] (1852). 

 Acrcea Nohara, Wallengr., Lep. Ehop. Caffr., p. 21, n. 5 [$] (1857). 

 ,, „ Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 96 (1862) ; ii. pi. 3, f. i [S] 



(1866). 



Exp. al., I in. 8 lin. — 2 in. 2 lin. 



$ Bright hricJc-red, ivith Uach spots and herders. Fore-wing : 

 border beginning as a very thin linear edging on costa near base, 

 gradually widening to apes (but not broad there), and thence narrowing 

 along hind-margin to a point at posterior angle ; hind-marginal part of 

 border emitting black rays along the nervules, — the longest rays towards 

 apex ; base black, most widely on inner margin ; two spots in dis- 

 coidal cell, one elongate-ovate just beyond its middle, — the other 

 broader, squarer, at its extremity ; about midway between end of cell 

 and apical border, an oblique macular bar formed of five spots, of 

 which the first, on costa, is smallest and often obsolete, and the last, 

 between third and second median nervules, usually separate from and 

 placed at an angle with the fourth spot ; below median nervure and 

 not far from terminal cellular spot, a rather large rounded spot ; 

 beyond this, a small spot, below first median nervule ; near basal 



