1 66 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



Localities of Acrcea Encedon. 



I, South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



b. Eastern Districts. — King William's Town (/. H. Bowker). 



D. Ivaffraria Proper. — Bashee River (J. H. Bowker). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Verulam. Mapumulo. 



b. Upper Districts. — Pietermaritzburg. 



F. ZululancL— St. Lucia Bay {H. Toiver). 



H. Delagoa Bay. — Lorenzo Marques (/. J. Monteiro and /. H. Bowker). 

 Iv. Transvaal. — "Southern Part {N. Person)." — Wallengren. Upper 

 Limpojjo {F. C. Selous). 



11. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — Damaraland (/. A. Bell). "Angola {J. J. Mo7i- 



teiro)."—Dvnce. " Kinsembo, Congo (H. Ansell)." — Butler. 

 " Chinchoxo (Falkenstei7i)." — Dewitz. 



b. Eastern Coast. 



bb. Madagascar (Caldwell). 



B. North Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — Sierra Leone. — Coll. Brit. Mas., &c. 



b. Eastern Coast. — " Abyssinia (Lefebvre)." — Guerin-Meneville. 

 bi. Interior. — White Nile. Upper Egypt. 



50. (17.) Acreea Rahira, Boisduval. 



^ Acreea Rcddra, Boisd., Faune Ent. de Madag., &c., p. 33, pi. 5, fif. 4, 5 

 (1833); and App. Yoy. de Deleg. dans I'Afr. Aust., 

 p. 590 (1847). 



(J $ „ „ Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 103, n. 65 (1862). 



Ex]). cd., I in. 8 liu. — 2 in. 3 lin. 



^ Warm yellotu-ocJireous, with a rufous tinge, s2')otted with black. 

 Fore-ioing : a small ovate or reniform spot in discoidal cell, a little 

 beyond its middle ; a larger, irregular-shaped spot at extremity of 

 cell ; costa edged with blackish, widest at apex ; beyond extremity of 

 discoidal cell, an oblique transverse row of four spots, from just below 

 costa to second median nervule, not far from hind-margin ; two black 

 spots, one above and the other below first median nervule, lying 

 nearer to base than the row of four spots ; on hind-margin, nervules 

 strongly clouded with blackish, which, narrowing inwardly, forms sharp, 

 distinct rays, deeply piercing the ground-colour ; base narrowly black- 

 ish. Hind-wing : lower portion of base clouded with blackish ; two 

 transverse rows of spots, — one, before middle, of few spots, irregular 

 and interrupted, — the other, commencing about middle of costa, and 

 extending to about middle of inner margin, is rather sinuous, and 

 angulated on radial nervule, from whence to inner margin it proceeds 

 in a direct line, containing eight spots in all; parallel to the row last 

 mentioned, a more or less distinct grey streak, from just before anal 



