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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
area) ; six liind-marginal white spots, much, smaller than those in fore- ! 
wing, especially the upper four ; a more or less developed longitudinal I 
black streak running from the lowest of the median row of spots to the 
base. Cilia dull-grey, except about anal angle of hind-wing, where it 
is pure white, and much longer than elsewhere. Under side. — Fore- ' 
wing with white marki7igs ahnost lolwlly conJl'ue7it, only the neuration 
and a hind-marginal line being black; hind-iuing nuich as above, hut 
hind-marginal border ivithoiU any imuard blackish diffusion ; both wings 
with a pale-red costal edging. Fore-wing : at posterior angle the lowest 
(bisected) spot of hind-marginal series distinct, black-edged inwardly; 
some faint greyish traces of the boundaries of the principal markings ; 
costal red edge bright at base and extending faintly to apex. Hind- 
wing : a conspicuous red edging all along inner margin ; costal red 
edging paler ; and usually some red of the same paler tint immediately 
preceding sharply-defined black hind-marginal border, and also extending 
over the space between median nervure with its first nervule and sub- 
median nervure ; all the black spots very sharply defined ; white hind- 
marginal spots larger and better defined than on upper side. 
Head : above black, with three white spots in front, one between 
antenna), and two (very conspicuous) just behind antennas; eyea 
externally edged with white ; 2^<^f'lpi black above, with a white spot at 
end of middle joint, ochre-yellow beneath, — short terminal joint black, 
with a yellow median streak beneath ; antennae black, the club ochre- 
yellow beneath. Thorax above black ; the collar ochre-yellow, the 
pterygodes edged with white, and with an external white spot supe- 
riorly ; beneath black, with white spots frontally and larger ones and 
tufts of white hair laterally and posteriorly ; legs ochre-yellow, the 
femora half-black basally. Abdomen above black, with distinct white 
incision half-rings, and an ochre-yellow anal tuft ; beneath white. 
$ (Figured by Hopffer, op. cit.) Like J, but with blunter, more 
rounded wings ; some brownish-yellow suffusion about bases and margins 
of both wings ; hind-Aving without submarginal black spots and blackish 
suffusion. Under side as in J, but submarginal series of spots in 
hind-wing only represented by the two lowest, which are reduced in 
size. 
Of this very distinct and exceedingly rare species I have seen only three 
examples of the . Hopffer founded the species and genus on a single ? 
brought by the Peters Expedition from the Zambesi. Two examples from 
Angola are recorded by Mr. W. F. Kirby in his Catalogue of the late Mr. 
Hewitson's Collection. The spotting and the under-side tinting of the hind- 
wings are very peculiar, strongly recalling the aspect of some of the smaller 
species of Acrma. 
Colonel Bowker took the three (^s above mentioned in I^ovember 1871 
at Klipdrift (now Barkly), on the Vaal River, in Griqualand West ; they were 
flying about rapidly on a hill-top, in company with their snow-white congener, 
A. Levubu (Wallengr.). 
