ACR^IN^. 151 



43. (10.) Acrsea Aglaonice, Westwood. 

 Plate III. fig. 3(6). 



^ Acrcca Aglaonice, Westw., App. to Gates' " Matabele Land," 188 1, p. 346, 



n- 35» pl- F, ff. 9. lo- 

 ^ Acrcea fenestrata, Triuien/ Trans. Ent. Sec. Loud., 1881, p. 435. 



Exp. al., {$) 2 in. 2 lin. ; (g) 2 in. 6 lin. 



^ Warm fidvous-oclireous, inclining to rufous, with narrow hlack 

 borders and a few hlach siMs. Fore-wing : base very narrowly marked 

 with black, wliich extends for a little distance along inner margin ; 

 costa very thinly black-edged from near base, but more widely near 

 apex ; hind-margin narrowly black-edged throughout, and all the ner- 

 vules near it clearly defined with black, those near apex for the 

 greatest length, and the submedian nervure least of all ; basal area 

 thinly irro rated with black ; in discoidal cell near extremity a moderate- 

 sized reniform spot ; at extremity an elongate and more irregular mark- 

 ing of about the same size ; a little beyond the cell, between subcostal 

 nervure and third median nervule, an oblique row of three small rounded 

 contiguous spots ; immediately bounding the second and third spots of 

 this row externally, two small elongate transparent markings with ill- 

 defined edges ; below the third spot of the row, and well separated from 

 it, a very small rounded black spot, between third and second median 

 nervules ; a similar slightly larger spot between median and submedian 

 nervures, on edge of basal irroration ; and a third, larger and not so 

 rounded, between first median nervule and submedian nervure beyond 

 middle. Hind-wiiig : base more widely marked with black than in 

 fore-wing; black spots very small and few in number, viz., two in dis- 

 coidal cell (that near base confounded with black suffusion) ; one on 

 upper disco-cellular nervule ; one above and one below cell ; and five 

 minute ones in a very irregular discal row about middle (interrupted 

 widely about the branching of median nervure), of which only the first, 

 fourth, and fifth are distinct ; hind-margin with a rather narrow, well- 

 marked, unspotted black border. Under side. — Hi7id-wing and apical 

 area of fore-wing cream-colour dusted finely with grey. Fore-wing : a 

 narrow edging of cream-colour along costa ; spots as on upper side, with 

 the addition of a black dot on costa at base ; ground-colour paler, 

 more glossy, inclining to pink ; apical and hind-marginal cream-colour 

 crossed by conspicuous inter-nervular orange rays, of which the longest is 

 between subcostal nervure and upper radial ; nervules and hind-margins 

 more finely and thinly defined with black than on upper side, particu- 

 larly the latter. Hind-ioing : black spots better defined than on upper 

 side, especially those of median transverse row ; au additional one on 



1 In explanation of my having named and described this species so soon after Professor 

 Westwood, I may mention that the paper referred to was read on the 3d August 1881, when 

 the work containing A. Aglaonice had not appeared. The work in question was published oa 

 the 15th August, whereas Part III. of the Entomological Society's Transactions, containing 

 my paper, was not published until the 7th September. 



