296 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



97. (4.) Pseudacrsea Trimenii, Butler. 



^ $ Panopea Boisduvalii, Trim, [part], Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., xxvi. pp. 



517-518, t. 43> ff- 8, 9 (1869). 

 $ Pseudacrcea Trimenii, Butl., Ent. M. Mag., xi. p. 57 (1874). 

 Var, (J, Trim., loc. cit., pp. 517-518 = Pseudacrcea Colvillei, Butl., Ann. 



and Mag. Nat. Hist., 5th Ser., xiv. p. 123 (1884). 



Exp. ah, {:$) 3 in. 3-5 lin. ; ($) 3 in. 8-1 I lin. 

 $ Deep-red (more vivid and carmine-tinged in hin,d-wing), spotted 

 and hordered with hlach ; apical half of fore-iving semi-transparent 

 fuscous, crossed hy an ohliqiie yellow-ochreoiis har. Fore-iving : costa 

 from base very narrowly, apex broadly, and hind-margin rather nar- 

 rowly, bordered with black ; on inner margin for a little distance^from 

 base a narrow black or fuscous streak, prolonged thence as a mere 

 linear edging as far as posterior angle ; red ground-colour not reaching 

 upper corner of extremity of discoidal cell, nor rising above second 

 median nervule, but extending to hind-marginal border ; in discoidal 

 cell, five rather large rounded black spots, viz., one near base, two 

 obliquely placed about middle, and two (the lower situated on lower 

 disco- cellular nervule) at extremity ; below median nervure, six similar 

 spots, viz., one at base, two (one above and a little beyond the other) 

 near base, and three (in a transverse row) situated respectively on 

 second median nervule at its origin, on first median nervule, and on 

 submedian nervure ; all these spots are very thinly ringed with semi- 

 transparent fuscous-grey scales ; neuration everj^where black ; semi- 

 transparency of apical half of wing most pronounced on its inner por- 

 tion ; oblique yellow-ochreous bar variable in width, sometimes rather 

 narrowed superiorly, extending from costal to hind-marginal black 

 border ; from hind-margin a series of seven strongly-marked inter- 

 nervular black rays (changed to fulvous where they cross the ochreous 

 bar), much thickened inwardly, especially the three lower ones. Ilind- 

 wing : at base, four or five black spots unite to form a large marking 

 above and partly entering discoidal cell ; the black at base of cell is 

 marked with a white or whitish spot ; in cell near extremity a good- 

 sized rounded black spot, and a similar spot on the disco-cellular 

 nervule ; another black spot just below median nervure, and a row of 

 three small ones on the median nervules at or near their origins ; a 

 moderately-broad hind-marginal black border containing seven fulvous- 

 ochreous spots between nervules ; the inner edge of this border radiates 

 slightly on the nervules, and in some specimens also emits short inter- 

 nervular rays ; about median nervure and its branches and submedian 

 nervure some more or less distinct clouding of whitish scales. Cilia 

 extremely narrow, black, in hind-wing with very minute inter-nervular 

 white spots. Under side. — Very like upper side, but deep-red replaced 

 by rose-pink tinged with carmine. Fore-iving : borders fuscous-grey 

 instead of black ; yellow-ochreous bar paler ; black spots as on upper 



