354 APPENDIX. 



This species has the upper surface of the wings more richly 

 coloured than any of the others captured by Mr. Oates, being of an 

 orange-carmine colour, especially in the hind wings. The fore wings 

 are marked half-way between the end of the discoidal cell and the tip 

 of the wings with a square vitreous spot, through which runs a veinlet 

 dividing it into two parts ; the base of the wings, especially in the 

 hind parts, is irrorated with black scales ; the discoidal cell has a 

 rather large oval black spot beyond its middle, followed by a smaller 

 lunate one at the extremity of the cell, beyond which is an oblique 

 row of five conjoined black dots ; another round black spot is placed 

 towards the base of the wing behind the median vein, and two other 

 circular ones behind the extremity of the cell placed transversely ; 

 the veins at the extremity of the wings are slenderly black : the 

 hind wings are marked with about 10 minute black dots (varying, 

 however, in size), and the hind margin of the wing is rather broadly 

 edged with black. On the under side the fore wings are rosy-coloured, 

 with the spots of the upper side, including the vitreous spot, repro- 

 duced : the hind wings are greyish buff, with the spaces between the 

 veins varied with rosy at the base and along the anal margin, and with 

 rich orange between the middle of the wing and the row of submar- 

 ginal black lunules, which latter rest upon a narrow yellowish buff 

 margin ; the spots on this side, about 17 in number, are distinct, ap- 

 pearing partially ocellated. Body black, with rosy spots behind the 

 eyes and on the sides of the chest, which is also spotted with pale 

 buff; palpi orange, terminal joint black; legs orange, tarsi black; 

 abdomen broken off. 



The unique specimen of this species collected by Mr. Oates has 

 the abdomen mutilated, but the structure of the fore legs and the 

 shape of the fore wings prove that it is a male individual. 



36. (6) ACRiEA STENOBEA, Wallengren, Wien. Ent. Mon., iv. p. 35 

 (i860); id. Ofvers. Vet. Akad. Forh., xxix. (3), p. 49 (1872); 

 Trimen, S. Afr. Butt., i. p. 153, pi. 3, f. 2. (Plate VI., figs. 

 11, 12.) 

 Acrcea Acronycta, Westwood in Oates's Matabele Land, ed. 1, 

 App. p. 346, pi. F, f. 11, 12 (1881). 

 Alis supra luteo-aurantiacis ; anticis triente basali fusco ; macula 

 ad apicem cellulae, pone medium alas fascia abbreviata maculari, 

 maculisque duabus posticis (margine postico parallelis) nigris ; alis 

 posticis magis albidis, ante medium nigro-maculatis, margineque 

 postico latiori nigro : subtus maculis magis distinctis margineque 

 albido-maculato. Expans. alar, antic, unc. if. 



Habitat ? 



The upper surface of the wings (especially the hind pair) of this 

 species is whitish orange, the base being strongly suffused with dark 

 brown scales hiding the spots in that part ; one of these, near the 

 extremity of the discoidal cell, is visible, and the cell itself is closed 



