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doubledayi, are from five different localities, four specimens being 

 from near the Vunduzi River. The males are rather worn, but 

 agree with other Eastern individuals in their semi-transparency 

 and freedom from basal fuscous clouding ; the three females are 

 all dusky brownish above, but differ much as regards the subapical 

 whitish bar in the fore wings, whicb in one case is unusually 

 broad. 



18. ACEJEA CALDARENA, Hewits. 



Acrcea caldarena, Hewits. Ent. M. Mag. xiv. p. 52 (1877) ; 

 Trim. S.-Afr. Butt. i. p. 149. n. 42 (1887). 



The collection contains 19 specimens of this well-marked form, 

 12 from Christmas Pass and 7 from the Mineni Valley. The 

 species was first described from examples taken on Lake Nyassa ; 

 it ranges westward to Damaraland and southward to the northern 

 Transvaal. One of the females taken in the Mineni Valley is 

 remarkable for the different ground-colour on the upperside, which 

 is a dingy creamy-yellow without any tinge of the ordinary warm 

 ochreous -fulvous ; the fore wings are paler, while the fuscous 

 basal suffusion is extended over two-thirds of the hind wings. 



19. ACRJEA AGLAONICE, Westw. 



Acrcea aglaonice, Westw. App. Oates's Matabele-land etc. p. 346. 

 n. 35, pi. F. figs. 9, 10 (1881); Trim. S.-Afr. Butt. i. p. 151. 

 n. 43, pi. iii. fig. 3 (1877). 



The four males and two females, from the Mineni Valley (three 

 males and a female), Lopodzi River (male), and Lower Pungvve 

 River (female), constitute rather a striking variety in the direction 

 of A. natalica, Boisd. In this form the male has much more 

 fuscous basal clouding and wider apical fuscous in the fore wings, 

 where also the peculiar subapical transparent spots are obsolete 

 or entirely wanting ; while in the hind wings the fuscous hind- 

 marginal border is very much broader and partly radiant on the 

 nervules along its inner edge. The Mineni Valley female nearly 

 resembles that from Delagoa Bay described by me {op. cit.), but 

 has the transparent spots of the fore wings obsolescent ; while the 

 Pungwe River female, though having this marking well expressed, 

 is very much duller in ground-colour, and also presents the 

 peculiarity to which so many female Acrcea are liable, viz., a 

 conspicuous white cloud on the middle disk of the hind wings. 

 I have an exactly similar female to this, which was taken in 

 Zululand (Etshowe) by Capt. A. M. Goodrich in 1887. 



As regards the male, the South-African Museum possesses one 

 agreeing with Mr. Selous's examples which was taken in the 

 Lydenburg district of the Transvaal by Mr. T. Ayres, and I have 

 examined two others, one taken at Etshowe by Mr. C. N. Barker, 

 and the other at Extcourt, Natal, by Mr. C. W. Morrison. 



The three males recorded by me {op. cit. p. 152) as taken by 

 Mr. Selous on the Marico and Upper Limpopo are intermediate 



