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Locality of Acrcea Ccrasa. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — Pinetown (/. //. Bowher). 
38. (5.) Acraea Violamm, Boisuval. 
Plate III. fig. 4 ( ? ). 
Acrcea Violarum, BoisJ., App. Voy. de. Deleg. dans I'Afr. Aust., p. 591, 
n. 58 (1847). 
^ Acrcea Nataliensis, Angas, Kafirs. Illnstr,, pl, xxx. f. 6 [(^] (1849). 
$ 9 ^cnm Violarum, Trimen, Rliop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 95, n. 59 (1862). 
Exp. aL, 2 in. 2 lin. — 2 in. 4 lin. 
^ Soft, creamy hrick-recl, luith an orange tinge, spotted luitli hlach. 
Fore-wing : base narrowly suffused with black ; on hind-margin a 
narrow black border, widest at apex, diminishing to a point at anal 
angle ; a short, black, transverse stripe, on costa before middle, crosses 
discoidal cell to insertion of first median nervule ; a small, narrow, 
slightly-curved spot occupies the upper portion of the nervules closing 
discoidal cell ; an elongate, transverse stripe of five connected black 
spots, a little beyond cell, from costa to second median nervule ; two 
black spots below cell, touching median nervure, one between first and 
second median nervules, the other between median and submedian ner- 
vures ; near hind-margin a transverse waved row of seven black, rounded 
inter-nervular spots of moderate size, extending from near costa to just 
above submedian nervure ; a small black spot on inner margin, slightly 
beyond middle, and another larger spot a little beyond it, but ahove sub- 
median nervure. Hind-wing : base suffused with black, which estends 
towards anal angle on both sides of median nervure ; a spot across 
widest part of discoidal cell ; a similar costal spot nearer base ; a highly- 
irregular and much interrupted discal row of seven rather small spots ; 
a rather broad black band along hind-margin, slightly but regularly 
dentate on its inner edge, and containing six or seven small, pale- 
yellowish spots between nervules. Under side. — Paler than upper 
side, with a pecidiarly glossy appearance ; black spots not so large. 
Fore-wing : base without black suffusion ; at apex, two or three yellow- 
ish-white spots in the black marginal stripe. Hind-iving : base but 
narrowly black ; spots more distinct than on upper side, some addi- 
tional ones near base being clearly visible, viz., a small one on costa 
close to base ; a small round one in discoidal cell ; a very large elongate 
one between origin of first median nervule and inner margin ; and two 
spots on inner margin — one near base and the other an eighth spot in 
discal row ; spots on hind-margin very large, conspicuous, paler than 
above, seven or eight in number. Fringes of wings yellow. 
$ Spotted and otherwise marked as in ; but ground-colour much 
