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II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



a. "Western Coast. — Damaraland (C /. Andcrsson and /, A. Bell). 

 "River Swakop (Wahlberg)." — Wallengrcn. Angola [Var. 

 LygiLS, Druce] (/. J. Monteiro). 

 ai. Interior. — Khama's Country, near Bamangwato {H. Barher). 

 Tati (a Hart). 



45. (12.) Acraea Natalica, Boisduval. 



Acrcea Natalica, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg. dans I'Afr. Aust., p. 590, 



n. 57 (1847)- 

 Acrcea Bellua, Wallengr., Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 22, n. 9 (1857). 

 Acrcea Natalica, Hopff., in Peters' Reise nach Mossamb., p. 371, pi. 23, 



ff. 12, i3[(?](i862). 

 Acrcea Hypatia, var. B., Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 98 (1862). 



Exp. at., 2 in. 3 lin. — 3 in. 



^ Yelloiu-oclireous ; the hind-wing, and in a less degree the fore- 

 wing, in the central -part pcdcr and with a crcamy-pinh tiiit ; bases and 

 hind-marginal borders black ; a discal series of black spots. Fore-wing : 

 basal black well marked, but seldom extending as far as the middle of 

 discoidal cell, where tliere is an elongate black spot ; costal edge at 

 base ochreous, but thence very thinly black to near apes ; apical tip 

 broadly black, but hind-margin from extremity of third median nervule 

 with only a linear edging ; a narrow irregularly-shaped spot at extremity 

 of cell ; a little beyond it an oblique well-marked bar of five spots, of 

 which four are united and the fifth separated from the fourth by the 

 third median nervule; beyond this bar, in some specimens, a more or 

 less ill-defined dusky suffusion extending in the form of a curved 

 transverse fascia towards posterior angle ; usually a submarginal row 

 of three inter-nervular spots between third median nervule and sub- 

 median nervure ; of these, the uppermost spot is very often and the 

 second sometimes wanting ; below extremity of cell, two small spots, 

 one above and the other below first median nervule ; below median 

 nervure a small rounded spot just on the edge of basal black. ITirid- 

 wing : basal black narrow, wider below median nervure ; a spot in cell, 

 just beyond basal black; a smaller indistinct spot on edge of cell a 

 little beyond and above the last ; an irregular discal row of seven small 

 spots, often rather indistinct ; a broad hind-marginal black border, 

 without spots, with its inner edge slightly suffused ; ground-colour 

 clouded with a dull-red tint near this black border. Cilia grey. 

 Under side. — Paler ; the surface more shining (espeeially in fore-wing) ; 

 hind-iving and apiccd region creamy -ivhitish, the former varied luith 

 brick-red. Fore-iving : all the spots considerably fainter ; a black spot 

 (dotted with a white one) on costa at base, and another a little beyond 

 it ; apical black border very narrow, but emitting short black nervular 



