288 Mr. A. G. Butler on a Collection of 



ACR^A, Fabricius. 



18. Acrcea zitja. 



Acr(Ba zitja, Boisduval, Faun. Madag. p. 32. n. 7, pi. 4, figs. 4, 5 

 (1833). 



" Common about cultivated places." 



19. Acrcea calida^ n. sp. 



Allied to the preceding species, much smaller, with no 

 regular black border to the outer margin : the primaries with 

 longitudinal streaks running from the margin up the nervures 

 to near the middle of the disk ; a large black spot upon the 

 discocellulars and three smaller ones in an oblique series half- 

 way between the cell and the margin : secondaries with a 

 blackish patch divided by the median vein at the base ; a 

 black spot above the cell, two in the cell, one below it and 

 one discocellular ; a curved discal series of seven small black 

 spots ; a marginal series of six triangular blackish spots 

 terminating the nervures. Veins below black, with cream- 

 coloured borders : primaries with a cream-coloured dash from 

 the front of the discal" black dots : secondaries with the dis- 

 coidal cell, a dash on the second median interspace, and a 

 narrow regular external border cream-coloured; the black 

 discal spots of the upper surface only represented by one spot 

 at the abdominal margin ; the basal blackish patch and the 

 marginal spots (as also the longitudinal dashes of tlie prima- 

 ries) wholly wanting. Expanse of wings 1 inch 9 lines. 

 ? . Fianarantsoa. 



Mr. Cowan says that this species is " common ;" unfortu- 

 nately he has only sent one example. 



20. Acrcea punctatissima. 



Acrcea pmctatissitna, Boisduval, Faun. Madag. p. 31. n. 5, pi. 6. fig. 2 

 (1833). 



" Common on grassy plains." Fianarantsoa. 



21. Acrcea oheira. 

 Acrcsa oheira, Hewitson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 186.3, p. 65. 

 ^ . " Found near towns." 



22. Acrcea piva, 



Acr(sapitia, Gu^n^e, in Vinson's Voy. Madag. Lep. p. 34 (1865). 



? . " Common." Fianarantsoa. 

 This species is extremely close to the preceding, but is 



