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33. (3) Acr^ea AxiNA, Westwood in Oates's Matabele Land, ed. 1, 

 App. p. 344, pi. F, f. 5, 6 (1881). (Plate VI., figs. 5, 6.) 



Alis supra luteo-fulvis, nigro-maculatis, posticis magis aurantiacis ; 

 anticarum apice, lineolisque abbreviatis apicalibus (inter venas) nigri- 

 cantibus ; alis posticis maculis minoribus, exterioribus lineam irregu- 

 larem multo pone medium alas formantibus, margine externo nigro. 

 Expans. alar, antic, unc. if. 



Habitat prope Tati et Gwailo fluv. ; mense Octobre capta. 



This small species has the upper side of the fore wings rather dirty 

 luteo- fulvous, that of the hind wings being brighter coloured. The 

 extremity of the fore wings and the narrow apical margin are black, 

 and the interspaces between the veins near the apex of the wings are 

 marked with slender abbreviated black lines, leaving a narrow paler 

 space beyond the fascia ; the five spots between the base and the 

 middle of the wings are strongly marked, and the abbreviated oblique 

 black fascia beyond the cell is more continuous : the hind wings have 

 the black spots also well marked, the outer ones forming an irregular 

 row considerably beyond the middle of the wing, the central spot 

 especially being not far from the black marginal border. On the under 

 side the fore wings are slightly rosy, the apical portion being more 

 buff with the spaces between the veins orange ; the black spots on 

 this side are not so strongly marked as above : the hind wings are 

 more pale buff, with the spaces between the veins strongly marked 

 with rose-colour, the black spots resting on pale spaces, giving them 

 an ocellated appearance ; the very narrow black outer margin of 

 these wings is preceded by a series of small black arches, including 

 a row of pale yellow spots. The palpi, head, and sides of the body are 

 coloured as in the preceding species ; the abdomen in one of our 

 specimens is broken off, but in the other it is pale buff, with the upper 

 side of the basal segments black, with two pale dots, indicating (as 

 well as the shape of the fore wings) this individual (represented in our 

 figures) to be of the male sex. 



In his new work on ' South African Butterflies ' (vol. i. pp. 147, 

 148) Mr. Trimen considers this insect to be merely a variety of Acrtza 

 Donbledayi, Guerin in Lefebvre's Voy. Abyss., vi. p. 378 ; Reiche in 

 Ferret and Galinier's Voy. Abyss., iii. p. 468, pi. 33, f- 1, 2 ; but the 

 type specimens of A. Axina have the fore wings on the upper side 

 much more uniformly coloured and entirely destitute of the white 

 portion beyond the row of post-median black spots, and the spots on 

 the hind wings are also differently disposed. 



*** The orange and rosy tints described above are almost obliterated in one of the two 

 specimens, most probably from longer exposure in the winged state. 1 



1 [In some impressions of the plates in the first edition of this work the figure of the under- 

 side of A. Axina was coloured from the paler specimen. — Ed.] 



