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in the basal portion marked with red, having the black dots (about 

 twenty in number) surrounded with buff, whilst in the apical half of 

 the wing the intervening spaces are more orange ; the black arches 

 preceding the slender outer black edging are marked more distinctly 

 than on the upper side. The head and body are spotted as in the 

 preceding species. 



Several specimens of this insect in Mr. Oates's collection from the 

 above localities were described in the first edition of this book as a 

 separate species, under the name of A. Dirccea; but they are too 

 closely allied to A. Caldarena (with which they are united by Mr. 

 Trimen) to be regarded as specifically distinct, the chief difference 

 being that the types of A. Dirccea have only nine small black spots 

 on the upper side of the fore wings. The following is the. descrip- 

 tion of A. Dirccea which was given in the first edition of the present 

 work (p. 348) : — 



" Alis supra fulvis, puniceo interdum tinctis ; anticarum apice late 

 nigris maculisque 9 parvis nigris, 4 in lineam obliquam pone medium 

 positis ; alis posticis maculis circiter 14 parvis nigris discoidalibus, 

 margine tenui nigro fulvo-maculato : alis subtus pallidioribus, apice 

 anticarum lutescenti, fulvo-strigoso ; maculis nigris parum majoribus 

 prassertim in alis posticis, interstitiis rubro-maculatis. Expans. alar, 

 antic, unc. 2. 



11 A. Onccecz, Hopffer, affinis, sed apice lato nigro alarum anti- 

 carum optime distinguitur." 



38. (8) ACRiEA Natalica, Boisduval in Delegorgue's Voy. Afr. 



Austr., ii. p. 590 ; Hopffer in Peters's Reise Mossamb., 

 Zool. v. p. 371, pi. 23, f. 12, 13; Trimen, S. Afr. Butt., i. 

 p. 155. 

 Acrcza Belhta, Wallengren, Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 22. 

 Acrcea Hypatia, var. B, Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Austr., p. 98. 

 A series of small specimens was taken at Tati, each measuring 

 only 2 inches in the expanse of the fore wings. A large specimen 

 (2| inches expanse) was taken near the Dry River in the beginning of 

 March, and one (2J inches expanse) was taken near the Motlautsi 

 River in August. 



39. (9) ACRiEA ANEMOSA, Hewitson, Ex. Butt., iii. Acr. pi. 3, f. 14, 



15 ; Trimen. S. Afr. Butt., i. p. 157. 

 Near the Umvungu River, end of October ; and near the Victoria 

 Falls in January. 



40. (10) ACRCEA NEOBULE, Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep., 



pi. 19, f. 3 ; Reiche in Ferret and Galinier's Voy. Abyss., 

 iii. p. 466, pi. 2>lsi f- 3, 4 ; Trimen, S. Afr. Butt., i. p. 137. 

 Var. ? Acnza Mahela, Boisduval, Faune Madag., p. 31, 

 pi. 6, f. 1. 

 Ramakwebani River, February 14, 1874. 



