ENTOMOLOGY. 353 



34. (4) ACR/EA Acontias, Westwood in Oates's Matabele Land, 



ed. 1, App. p. 345, pi. F, f. 7, 8 (1881). (Plate VI., 

 figs. 7, 8.) 



Alis supra obscure fusco-rufis, nigro-maculatis, maculis 4 in medio 

 alarum anticarum, fascia abbreviata maculari, margine apicali late 

 venisque apicalibus nigris ; alis posticis basi maculisque submediis 

 lineam irregularem formantibus, margineque postico cum venis nigris. 

 Expans. alar, antic, unc. if. 



Habitat prope " Victoria Falls " ; mense Januario capta. 



The dull brownish red colouring of the upper side of the wings 

 distinguishes this species. The fore wings are marked near the 

 base, behind the middle of the cell, with a small black dot, followed 

 by four rather large spots of the same colour, placed so as to form an 

 oblique triangle ; beyond the cell is the ordinary abbreviated fascia, 

 formed of four black spots, which is succeeded by a narrow paler 

 buff space, the apex being traversed by black veins, the extremity of 

 the anterior margin and the whole of the apical margin being also 

 black : the hind wings have a suffused black spot near the base, the 

 middle of the wing being crossed by zigzag rows of small but nearly 

 uniform black spots ; the outer margin is black, as are the veins 

 beyond the middle of the wing. On the under side the fore wings 

 are more rosy-coloured from the base to the abbreviated fascia, be- 

 yond which they are paler buff, with orange stripes between the veins : 

 the hind wings have the black dots smaller but more numerous than 

 on the upper side, there being about 20 on each wing, the ground 

 colour of which is buff, with the spaces between the veins in the 

 basal portion rosy, but beyond the cell they are marked with longi- 

 tudinal orange stripes between the veins ; the outer margin is very 

 narrowly black, preceded by a very narrow black line parallel with 

 the margin. The body is black, much spotted at the sides below the 

 wings with buff and rosy ; the abdomen is orange, marked above 

 with black fasciae, forming more or less incomplete lateral circular 

 spots ; the ventral surface yellow, with two rows of black spots. The 

 apical margin of the fore wings is but slightly convex, but the 

 spotting of the abdomen indicates the specimen to be a female. 



35. (5) ACRiEA Aglaonice, Westwood in Oates's Matabele Land, 



ed. 1, p. 346, pi. F, f. 9, 10 (August 1881); Trimen, S. 

 Afr. Butt., i. p. 151, pi. 3, f. 3. (Plate VI., figs. 9, 10.) 

 AcrcEa fenestrata, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 188 1 

 (September), p. 435. 

 Alis supra rufo-puniceis, anticis apicem versus magis aurantiacis, 

 macula fenestrata bipartita subapicali notatis, nigro-maculatis, venis 

 apicalibus nigris ; posticis maculis minutis margineque latiori apicali 

 nigris. Expans. alar, antic, unc. 2 T V 

 Habitat prope Tati. 



