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by a semicircular spot, followed at a short distance by an oblique 

 abbreviated black fascia formed of conjoined spots, of which the 

 hinder one is smallest and most distinct ; two other spots appear 

 on the disk of the wing behind the extremity of the cell, and are 

 placed nearly parallel with the apical margin, which is very narrowly 

 black and slightly concave : the hind wings have a somewhat more 

 suffused whitish hue than the anterior ; they are brown at the base, 

 and are marked before the middle with an irregular series of black 

 dots, followed by two minute ones beyond the middle ; the posterior 

 margin is widely black. On the under side the fore wings have five 

 black spots in the middle, followed by the abbreviated macular fascia : 

 the hind wings are more tinged with rose-colour than the anterior 

 ones, and are marked with about twelve black dots of different sizes ; 

 the posterior margin is pale yellowish white, surmounted by a row of 

 black arches, resting upon a very narrow black edging. The head 

 and body are black, spotted with pale buff, the sides of the thorax 

 beneath the wings with a reddish spot ; the abdomen is nearly white, 

 the basal segments on the upper side black, with a pair of round 

 white dots. 



37. (7) ACR^A Caldarena, Hewitson, Ent. M. Mag., xiv. p. 52 



(1877) ; Trimen, S. Afr. Butt., i. p. 149. (Plate V., figs. 1, 2.) 



Acrcea Amphimalla, Westwood in Oates's Matabele Land, 



ed. 1, App. p. 347, pi. E, f. 1, 2 (1881). 

 Var. Acrcea Dirccea, Westwood, /. c, p. 348. 



Alis supra fulvo vel puniceo luteis nigro-guttatis, anticarum apice 

 late nigro triangulariter terminata, posticarum margine apicali e 

 lunulis nigris, maculis concoloribus inclusis, notato. Expans. alar, 

 antic, unc. if -2^. 



Habitat prope Tati, et marg. Motlautsi fluv. ; mense Maio capta. 



This very distinct species has the wings on the upper side of a buff 

 colour, varying from dull orange to reddish ; the black spots are of 

 small size, and the fore wings have the apex broadly and triangularly 

 black, whilst the hind wings have the slender apical outer black 

 margin preceded by a series of slender depressed black arches enclos- 

 ing spots of the ground colour of the wing ; the ordinary black spot 

 in the middle of the discoidal cell is sometimes preceded by a smaller, 

 more or less slightly marked, dot, behind which is another small one ; 

 the cell is partially closed by a small oblique black spot, followed at 

 some distance by a row of four small spots placed obliquely, and there 

 are two other small spots between the middle of the wing and the 

 posterior angle, the outer one being occasionally duplicated ; in the 

 hind wings the black spots, about twelve in number, are of nearly 

 uniform small size. On the under side the black apex of the upper 

 side is replaced by the ground colour of the rest of the wing, the spaces 

 between the veins being more strongly marked with orange stripes : 

 the hind wings are buff-coloured, with the spaces between the veins 



