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given off before extremity of discoidal cell,- second considerably beyond 

 it ; uii-per disco-cellular nervuh remarkably long, and so directed longitu- 

 dinally as to look like a prolongation of subcostal nervure ; middle disco- 

 cellular extremely short, the two radicd nervides originating close to each 

 other ; lower disco- cellular rather long, only slightly oblique, joining 

 first median nervule at a rather acute angle some way from its origin ; 

 discoidal cell thus elongated but very narrow. Hind-ivings shaped as 

 in typical Acrcea ; second subcostal nervule angulated at junction with 

 upper disco-cellular ; radial nervule much curved near its origin. Legs 

 as in Acroja. 



Abdomen longer than hind-wings, remarkably slender, in $ without 

 any corneous appendage. 



The characters particularised above, and especially the very singular 

 arrangement of the disco- cellular and radial neuration of the fore- wings, 

 seem to warrant the generic separation of Acrma ]3unctatissima, Boisd. 

 The very large number of black spots on the wings gives this butterfly 

 a peculiar aspect, and it differs from Acrcea and Planema in having 

 both thorax and abdomen unspotted, the latter being ochre-yellow on 

 the sides and beneath. Its structure is so slender, and its flight so 

 weak, as to remind one of Pontia Alccsta among the Fierincc. Origin- 

 ally discovered in Madagascar, it has since been found to have an 

 extensive range in Eastern and South-Eastern Africa. 



56. (1.) Pardopsis punctatissima, (Boisduval). 



Acroia punctatissima, Boisd., Faune Ent. Madag, &c., p. 31, n. 5, pi. 6, 



f. 2 (1833). 

 Var. Acroia Stictica, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg. dans I'Afr, Aust., 



p. 590, n. 51 (1847). 

 Acrcea runctatissima, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 105, n. 66 (1862). 



Exp. al.j I in. 6 lin. — i in. 8 lin. 



Fale yellotu-ochreous, semi-transparent ; thickly sptotted with black. 

 Fore-iuing : base slightly blackish between the nervures ; costa narrowly 

 edged with blackish ; apex rather broadly clouded with the same ; 

 which is continued along hind-margin in a narrow border, forming 

 rounded spot-like projections between nervules, indenting the ground- 

 colour; three small spots on costa before the middle, and one just 

 beyond the middle ; four spots in discoidal cell, viz., two small rounded 

 ones near base, only divided from the first two on costa by subcostal 

 nervure ; a large kidney-shaped one, as long as cell is wide, just above 

 insertion of first median nervule ; and a rounded spot, not so large as 

 the last, at extremity of cell ; a good-sized spot below median nervure, 

 before insertion of first median nervule; a sinuous, irregular, transverse 

 row of seven spots commencing beyond extremity of cell on second 

 subcostal, and extending to inner margin about middle, — the last spot 

 being small, but with a prolongation towards base ; parallel and near 



