158 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



nervular projections on the salmon-red central band. Cilia black, with 

 white inter-nervular interruptions (small in fore-wing, but large and 

 conspicuous in hind-wing). Under side. — Paler ; markings much like 

 those of upper side. Fore-wing : subapical region more or less clouded 

 with whitish. Hind-ioing : in basal black eight small but conspicuous 

 white spots, viz., one basal, two costal, two in cell, and three below 

 cell ; a less conspicuous white spot just at external edge of basal black 

 on inner margin ; central bar broad, reddish-white, bordered next basal 

 and hind-marginal black with pinkish-red ; black border of hind- 

 margin much narrower and internally more even than on upper side, 

 containing along its middle line eight small but conspicuous inter- 

 nervular white spots, of which the seventh and eighth are close 

 together, between first median nervule and submedian nervure. 



$ Paler and duller. Fore-vnng : basal black wider, emitting a 

 projection in discoidal cell, and, in one example, another (broader) 

 below first median nervule. Hind-wing : central bar very much 

 obscured, and, in one example, externally fading into the very broad 

 hind-marginal black. Under side. — Fore-wing : projections of basal 

 black more sharply defined. Hind-wing : in one example, three of the 

 white spots in basal black wanting, viz., the outer cellular one and the 

 two lower of those below cell. 



Aberration. — ? $ Fore-iving : all the nervidcs clouded with white 

 near margin, especially on costa before apex. Hind-iuing : all the red 

 of central band loanting (except a little towards costa beyond middle), 

 leing replaced hy lohite^ which also somewhat suffuses basal black ; 

 hind-marginal black narrower than usual. Under side. — As above, 

 but the white somewhat more developed. 



Hcib. — Damaraland. (In the Hewitson Collection, British Museum.) 



The description above given of the normal $ is made from a single 

 Damaraland example presented to me many years ago by the late Mr. Charles 

 J. Andersson, and from another example sent me from Delagoa Bay by Mrs. 

 Monteiro. The special peculiarities noted are in the former specimen. 



The simple but most effective colouring of this remarkable Acrcea renders 

 it very easy of recognition ; the heavy intense black of the bases and of the 

 outer part of the hind-wing, and the absence or great paucity of discal spots 

 at once distinguishing it from its nearest congener, A. Natalica, Boisd. 



First discovered on the Zambesi, A. Anemosa is quite a tropical species, 

 only being known in South Africa proper as far as about 26° S., in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Delagoa Bay and in Swaziland, as Avell as in the adjacent district 

 of Lydenburg in the Transvaal Territory. 



Localities of Acrcca Anemosa. 



I. South Africa. 



G. " Swaziland " {E. 0. Buxton). 



H. Delagoa Bay. — Lorengo Marques (J. G. Monteiro). ' 

 K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District (T. Aijres). Upper Limpopo {F. 

 G. Selous). 



