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In March 1878 Colonel Bowker sent me from Natal two living pupae of 

 A. Natalica, attached to stems of a grass. Unfortunately the butterflies 

 endeavoured to emerge en route in a very small box ; and thus neither pupse 

 nor imagines arrived in a useful condition. But the specimens sufficiently 

 show that the pupa is quite of the type of that A. Ilorta, Linn., being creamy- 

 white, witli the limbs and position of Aving-nervures outlined in black ; a 

 triple black streak from top of head along middle of back of thorax, and a 

 broad lateral streak varied with white spots ; the abdomen bearing two dorsal, 

 two lateral, and one median ventral, chains of black rings enclosing orange- 

 yellow spots. 



From the same indefatigable observer I received, in 1879, no fewer than 

 three pairs of this butterfly taken by him in copula. 



Localities of Acrcca Natalica. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



h. Eastern I)istricts. — Kei Eiver (/. H. Bowker). 



D. Kaifraria Proper. — Bashee Kiver (/, H. Boivker). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Verulam. Mapumulo, Avoca (/. 

 H. Boivker). Mouth of Tugela River (/. //. Buivker). 



F. Zululand. — St. Lucia Bay (Colonel II. ^'ower). 



H. Delagoa Bay. — Loren90 Marques (/. /. Munfeiro). 



K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg and Potchefstroom Districts (T. Ayres). 



IL Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



h. Eastern Coast. — Zambesi River {Rev. II. Rowley). "Tette." — 



Hopffer. 

 61. Interior. — "Motloutsi River, Tati, and Dry River (Gates)." — 

 Westwood. " Kilima-njaro (H. H. Johnston)." — F. D. Godman. 



46. (13.) Acrsea Anemosa, Hewitson. 



$ Acrcea Anemosa, Hewits., Exot. Butt., iii. i)l. 8, IF. 14, 15 (1865). 



Exp. al., 2 in. 8- 10 lin. 



^ Ochre-yelloiv, in fore-wing inclining to orange, in hind-wing 

 tinged vnth salmon-red ; bases and borders black. Fore-iving : basal 

 black very distinctly defined from costa to inner margin, extending 

 as far as origin of first median nervule ; costa and hind-margin very 

 narrowly bordered with black, apex more widely so ; a black line 

 marks disco-cellular nervules ; a little beyond this a strongly marked, 

 slightly oblique, black bar, widest on costa, and thence narrowing to an 

 abrupt end on third median nervule ; in some specimens, a small black 

 spot just below end of bar, and another, nearer base, below second 

 median nervule. Hind-iving : basal black not so wide or externally so 

 sharply defined as in fore-wing ; hind-marginal border varying in width 

 but ahvaij'. very broad, its inner edge more or less deeply serrated by 



