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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTEKFLIES. 
Localities of Meneris Tulbaghia. 
L South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Cape Town. Kalk Bay. Bain's Kloof. 
Genadendal {G. Hettarscli). Swellendam Mountains (Burchell). 
Knysna. 
h. Eastern Districts. — " Port Elizabeth {S. D. Bairstoiv)." Grahams- 
town : Highlands and Brookhuyzen's Poort. Queenstown Dis- 
trict : Windvogelberg (Dr. Batho). Burghersdorp {D. M. Kan- 
7iemeyer). 
d. Basutoland. — Maseru (/. H. BozvTcer). 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo River (/. H. BowJcer). 
E. Natal. 
b. Upper Districts. — Hermansburg. Tunjumbili. Grey town. 
K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District {T. Ay res). 
Sub-Family 3.— ACRJEIN^. 
Heliconides (part), Boisd., Sp. Gen. Dep., i. p. 165 (1836). 
Acrceidce, DoubL, Gen. Diurn. Lep;, i. p. 137 (1848). 
Acrceinoe^ Bates, Journ. Ent., 1861, p. 220; 1864, p. 176. 
Imago. — Head of moderate size (rather broad in genus Acrcea)^ 
clothed with close down ; eyes smooth, rather prominent ; palpi 
rather long, divergent, 'ascendant, rather scantily clothed with hair 
(which is longer beneath), — the second joint long, usually more or less 
thickened or swollen, — the terminal joint very small or even minute ; 
antennce rather long and thick, with a rather abruptly formed flattened 
club. 
Thorax compressed laterally, narrow, short, downy ; prothorax very 
distinctly defined, more or less hairy. Fore-ioings elongate, sometimes 
markedly produced in apical portion ; costa almost straight, only 
slightly curved at base and near apex, which is rounded ; hind-margin 
entire, rather convex, except when apical portion is produced, making" 
lower part hollowed ; posterior angle much rounded ; inner-margin 
nearly straight ; discoidal cell of moderate length or rather short, narrow, 
closed obliquely by the more or less strongly outward-bent lower disco- 
cellular nervule, which (except in Actinote) is much longer than the 
middle one ; first subcostal nervule originating a little before or at 
extremity of cell, second at a considerable distance beyond it. Hind- 
wings rather elongate, much rounded outwardly, sometimes inclining 
to prominence about middle of hind-margin, which is entire ; costa 
very prominent at base, but thence remarkably straight ; anal angle 
not at all marked, much rounded off* ; inner-margins convex at base, 
sometimes almost meeting across basal part of abdomen ; costal nervure 
extending to apex ; discoidal cell narrow, usually short (in Planema 
