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SOUTH AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
considerably wider; hind-marginal border broader, emitting nervular 
rays inwardly. Under side. — Fore-iving : border as in ^ ; basal fus- 
cous suffusion and yellowish area beyond both paler than on upper 
side. Hind-iving : whiter than in ^, without reddish tinge ; black 
spots larger ; hind-marginal border broader, but its internervular sub- 
marginal dark marks less defined. 
Abdomen with larger white spots. 
This Acrcea has at the first glance much the appearance of a dwarf 
Horta, but the blackish border of the fore-wings and broad unspotted 
black border of the hind-wings readily distinguish it. The $ seems 
most nearly related to A. Feneleos, Ward,-^ from Cameroons and Old 
Calabar, but has much shorter and blunter fore-wings, with a very large 
red area in place of only two longitudinal red streaks on the inner 
margin near the posterior angle ; and in the hind-wings has the inferior 
discal spots differently shaped and arranged. The $ comes very close 
to a Madagascar Acrcea described and figured by Saalmiiller^ as A. 
Jjosece, but differs in its heavy basal blackish suffusion of both fore and 
hind wings, and the form and disposition of the black spots of the 
hind-wings. In the last-mentioned character the $ Igola agrees much 
better with the $ Masamha, Ward,^ which is, however, a much larger 
insect, without basal black suffusion, and with very hyaline fore-wings, 
which bear a dusky spot in the discoidal cell. The $ Masamha has a 
small field of red in the fore-wings, only filling basal half of cell and 
not rising above first median nervule, and the discal black spots of the 
hind-wing are very much larger, especially that next to costa ; more- 
over the fore-wings are as much elongated apically as in the $ Feneleos. 
Major H. D'Aguilar discovered this butterfly in Zululand during 
May 1886, and communicated to me through Colonel Bowker the two 
specimens ($ and $) from which the above description is made. He 
wrote that the $ s appeared about the middle of May, flying over a 
yellow-flowered climbing plant in thick forest near Etshowe ; they kept 
usually about twenty-five feet from the ground, and were not scarce. 
The only $ observed sat low down and was easily captured ; this 
example occurred near the end of May, when Major D'Aguilar left the 
neighbourhood ; but the wings of a second $ were found by him in 
the same spot. 
Locality of Acrcea Igola. 
I. South Africa. 
F. Zululand. — Etshowe {Major H. UAgiiUar). 
^ Ent. M. Mag., viii, p. 60 (1871); and African Lejndoptera, i. p. 7, pi. vi, ff. 3, 4 
(1873), [c5l. 
2 Lep. Madag., i. p. 76, pi. i. f. 3, [ ? ]. 
^ Ent. M. Mag., ix. p. 3. (1872) ; and African Lepidoptera, ii. p. 10, pi. 7, ff. 3, 4 (1874). 
See also Saalmiiller, op. cit., p. 75, pi. 3, f. 32, for a dull-reddish tinted ? of this Mada- 
gascar species. 
