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in June 1879 a remarkably dark female of this form, captured by him near 

 U'Urban. In this example the fore-wings are almost uniformly ashy-grey, 

 with the apex darker ; the subapical AvhiLish forms a defined narrow bar, and 

 only two ochreous spots are traceable on hind-margin. The hind-marginal 

 border of the hind-wings has only the faintest indications of spots. 



Localities of Acrma Buxtoni. 



I. South Africa. 

 E. Natal. 



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



Tagela River (J. H. Boioker). 

 h. Ujiper Districts. — Greytown. Pietermaritzburg [Hiss Culenso). 

 r. Zululand.— St. Lucia Bay {H. Tower). 

 G. " Swaziland."— F. E. C. Buxton. 

 II. Delagoa Bay. — Lorenzo Marques (J. /. Munteiro and /. //. Boiolcer). 



53. (20.) Acrsea Cabira, Hopif. 



Acrcea Cahira, Hopff., Monatsber. d. K. Preuss. Acad. d. Wissensch., 

 1855, p. 640, n. 7 ; and Peters' Reise nach Mossamb., Ins., p. 378, 

 pi. xxiii. ff. 14, 15 [cJ] (1862). 



Acrcea Cynthia, Trim, [part], Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 108, n. 68 (1862). 



Exp. ciL, ($) I in. 7^-10 lin. ; ($) 2 in. 2-5 lin. 



$ Blackish-broum, ivith iklIc yelloio-ochrcoiis hands. Forc-ioing : a 

 narrow subapical oblique band, of somewhat irregular outline, extend- 

 ing from first subcostal nervule to third median nervule at some dis- 

 tance from hind-margin ; a very irregularly- shaped medio-discal broad 

 patch or short band, of which the upper part just enters discoidal cell, 

 the inner side projects towards base just below median nerv^ure, the 

 outer edge is deeply indented on first median nervule, and the lowest 

 part (on inner margin) very much narrowed ; subcostal and median 

 nervures red near base, the former more brightly, but the latter to a 

 greater length. Hind-wing : a broad median transverse band, paler 

 and narrowed both on costa and inner margin, its inner edge irregu- 

 larly indented by some black spots indistinct on the ground-colour, its 

 outer edge slightly indented on nervules and much produced outwardly 

 between first subcostal and third median nervules, below which the 

 band is abruptly narrowed ; in basal area two parallel transverse rows 

 of black spots. Under side. — Bands as above, but very much paler, 

 and the outer and lower edge of the subapical bar of fore-wing ill- 

 defined. Fore-wing : a dull-red suffusion covering basal area, extend- 

 ing to end of discoidal cell and to inner edge of disco-median patch, 

 and marked in both places with a dark streak ; costa narrowly edged 

 with pale-yellowish ; apical space beyond oblique bar, and hind- 

 marginal border below it, pale-yellowish crossed by black nervules, 

 and by a series of inter-nervular, broad, hastate, fulvous markings, 

 narrowly black-edged on each side. Hind-wing : costa at base tinged 



