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II. Other African Eegions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. West Coast. — Damaraland {C. J. Aiidersson and John A. Bell) ; 
also, " Swakop Eiver {Walilherg)" — Wallengren). Angola 
(" Boma : /. J. Monteiro — Druce). Congo [Coll. Brit. Mus.] 
ai. Interior. — Khama's Country, near Bamangwato (H. Barber). 
Tati (C. Hart). " Eamaqueban Eiver {Oates)." — Westwood. 
b. East Coast. — "Lake Jipe (0. Kersten)." — Gerstacker. 
5 1. Interior. — "Victoria Nyanza {Rev. J. Hannington)^ — A. G. 
Butler. 
B. North Tropical. 
a. West Coast. — Gold Coast (Lieut. Eichards, E.N.) "Guinea" — 
Gerstacker. " Senegambia " — Gerstacker. " Gambia Eiver " — 
Eeisthamel. 
h. East Coast. — " Abyssinia (Le/ebvre) " — Gu6rin-Meneville ; and 
(" Ferret et Galinier ") — Eeiche. 
hh Socotra {Balfour). 
,37. (4.) Acraea cerasa, Hewitson. 
Acrsea cerasa, Hewits., Exot. Butt., ii. pi. xx. f. 10 [(^] (1861). 
Expl. al., {$) I in. 5 J- 1 1 lin. ; (?) I in. 10 lin. — 2 in. 3 lin. 
$ Semi-tra7isparcnt ; hrick-red with black spots ; outer half of fore- 
wing and 7iarrovj hind-marginal border of hind-iuing (wider near apex) 
fuscous-grey. Fore-ioing : base and inner margin near it blackish ; red 
only extending as far as an oblique line from extremity of discoidal 
cell to a little before posterior angle ; costa, apex, and hind-margin 
rather widely bordered with fuscous ; in discoidal cell usually a large 
ovate black spot, and at its extremity a small sublinear spot; occa- 
sionally a minute spot near base below median nervure ; and very 
rarely, two (one above the other) faintly marked on edge of red, about 
middle, above and below second median nervule. Hind-iuing : base 
pale-fuscous ; five spots in basal region, of which one is in discoidal 
cell ; a central irregular transverse row of seven small spots. Under 
SIDE. — More glossy, paler, the red fainter, the spots not so well-de- 
fined ; bases and margins scarcely fuscous. Fore-wing : spot at ex- 
tremity of discoidal cell obsolete. 
$ Larger ; the reel pcder and didler. Hind-iuing : grey border 
wider in apical region ; near hind-margin, between third median ner- 
vule and sub-median nervure, a row of three very small black spots. 
There is much instability in the spotting of this butterfly as regards 
both size and number of spots. In several males taken near Pinetown 
in Natal the spots of the hind-wing are very small, and in one example 
are wholly wanting, with the exception of two near the base ; while 
in one $ there is no spot in the fore-wing except the linear one at 
the extremity of the discoidal cell, and in another even that spot is 
obsolete. 
Larva. — Above livid-purplish ; a central dorsal dull-greenish 
