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SOUTH-AFRICAN- BUTTERFLIES. 
on the strength of several examples from Delagoa Bay which I saw in 
Mr. H. Grose Smith's collection in 1886. Its nearest described allies 
appear to be A. Caldarena, Hewits., and A. Stenohea, Wallengr., but it 
differs greatly from both these congeners by its deep-red upper side 
(in the $ sex), and want of basal dusky suffusion and subapical oblique 
series of spots in the fore-wings, as well as by the disposition of the 
discal spots, and the existence of large spots of the ground-colour in 
the hind-marginal border on the upper side, in the hind-wings. The 
wide unbroken ochre-yellow apical area of the fore-wings in the J 
recalls the still larger space in A. Anemosa, Hewits., — a congener in 
other respects so totally different in marking.-^ 
This species is very rare in collections, and would appear to be so, 
or possibly extremely local, in nature. Mr. Hewitson's types (a $ and 
a were from the Zambesi,^ and the only specimen (a very fine 
sent me by Mr. Selous was taken in Mashunaland, an elevated region 
not far to the south of that river. The six Delagoa Bay specimens 
(three $ s, three $ s) above mentioned were, I believe, captured by 
Mrs. Monteiro. A solitary example is recorded by M. C. Oberthur 
{Etudes d'Entomologie, iii. p. 24, 1878) as having been taken by M. 
Raffray in Zanguebar. 
Localities of Acrcea Acrita. 
1. South Africa. 
H. Delagoa Bay. — Louren^o Marques {Mrs. Monteiro 1). 
11. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
b. Eastern Coast. — "Zanguebar: Tchouacka (Baffray)." — Oberthiir 
"Zanzibar." — Kirby. Cat. Coll. Hewitson. 
bi. Eastern Interior. — Zambesi. — Coll. Hewitson. Mashunaland (i^. 
C. Selous). 
Sub-Family NYMPH ALIN^. 
Genus HARMA. 
382. (2.) Harma Coranus, H. G. Smith. 
^ $ Cymothoe Coranus, H. G. Smith, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Feb. 
1889, p. T33. 
Exp. al, ($) 2 in. 5-6 lin. ; ($) 2 in. 6 lin. 
$ Cream-colour; a submarginal sharjply-dentated black streak of 
unequal thickness^ and a hind-marginal narroio fuscous border ; common 
1 A much closer ally of Acrita, but exhibiting one or two more features of alliance with 
Caldarena, has lately (1888) been sent to me by Mr, A. W. Eriksson from Tropical South- 
Western Africa. This species presents, however, in the fore-wings, besides the very broad 
apical black of Caldarena, a subapical white patch. 
2 In Kirby's Catalogue of the Hewitson Collection, p. 51, Zanzibar is given as the 
locality of Acrita (of which five examples are recorded) ; but Zambesi was the locality 
given me by the late Mr. Hewitson for his two type specimens, and is that noted in his 
published description above cited. \ 
