^62 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



48. (15.) Acrsea Barberi, Trimen. 



Plate III. fig. i (cJ ), fig. la ( ? ). 

 Acrcea Barberi, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, p. 433. 



Uxp. ccL, 2 in. Sh-9h li^- (^) 5 3 i^i- 2 lin. (?). 



$ Warm hriclc-red, tinged with carmine; s'potted and edged ivith 

 black. Fore-wing : base suffused with black, narrowly near costa, but 

 more widely on inner margin ; costa edged with fuscous very narrowly ; 

 from apex to posterior angle a broad hind-marginal fuscous border, 

 containing seven large yellow-ochreous spots, of which the first is 

 smallest, and the second not enclosed by fuscous on its inner edge ; a 

 large elongate spot closing discoidal cell ; a similar marking in the 

 cell not far from the extremity, and another (of variable size and 

 rounded) in the cell near base ; slightly beyond the last-named spot, 

 and below median nervure, a curved elongate spot, and another (also 

 below median nervure) between first and second median nervules ; a 

 spot below first median nervule, not far from posterior angle ; beyond 

 discoidal cell a subapical transverse black bar of five confluent spots, 

 extending from costa to second median nervule, and slightly curving 

 inwardly at its lower extremity ; beyond this the ground-colour is 

 slightly tinged with yellow-ochreous. Hind-wing : Base rather widely 

 suff'used with black, a disco-cellular spot being partly confluent with 

 the suffusion ; a small spot surmounted by a thin short streak at 

 extremity of discoidal cell ; an irregular transverse discal row of seven 

 rather small spots, of which the first and sixth are nearest base ; on 

 inner margin an eighth spot is indistinctly perceptible ; a moderately 

 broad interiorly-crenelated hind-marginal black border, completely 

 enclosing seven rather small yellow-ochreous spots. Cilia white, inter- 

 rupted with fuscous at extremities of nervules. Under side. — Markings 

 similar ; but hind-wing and small subapical space of fore-iving pinkish- 

 ivhite, and ground-colour of fore-iving pale salmon-pink. Fore-wing : 

 Base slightly suffused with black below median nervure only ; two 

 very small black spots on costa at base, and a third (very small also) 

 close to base in discoidal cell. Hind-iving : the basal black is a 

 sharply-defined patch enclosing six white spots ; an eighth and a ninth 

 black spot continue the discal row to inner-marginal edge before middle ; 

 a regular row of seven or eight broad red lunulate marks interiorly 

 bounding hind-marginal black border ; also some red suffusion exteriorly 

 bounding basal black ; spots in hind-marginal border larger than on 

 upper side, and conspicuously creamy white. 



$ Semi-transparent in fore-wing ; ground-colour very much duller 

 and paler ; basal black almost obsolete ; all the blackish markings 

 smaller and much fainter, especially the hind-marginal border of hind- 

 wing, which is all but obsolete. Under side. — Except in the trans- 

 parency of the fore-wing with its fainter spots, and duller white of the 

 hind-wing, like that of male. 



