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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
duller, varying from pale reddish-oclireous to obscure oclireous-brown 
inclining to pale-fuscous ; the spots usually larger, and the hind- 
marginal border of the hind-wings wider. 
A $ specimen in the Hewitson collection has a dull-whitish suf- 
fusion over the upper median region of the hind-wings. 
I met with this handsome Acrcea not uncommonly in Natal, where it 
frequents hillsides and table-lands, preferring the sheltered hollows. Its flight 
is very low, and it often settles among the herbage and on flowers. Though 
having the gregarious inclination of the Acrcece generall}^, this butterfly was in 
no place at all abundant, but was more prevalent inland than on the coast. 
February and March were the months in which my specimens were captured, 
but Angas (op. cit.) notes the species as occurring in October. 
Localities of Acrcea Violarum. 
I. South Africa. 
D. Kafl'raria Proper. — Jojo's Country, North Pondoland {Sir 11. 
BarJdy). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban (/. H. Boifker). Umhlanga. Verulam. 
Mapumulo. 
h. Upper Districts. — Fort Buckingham, Tugela. Hermansburg. In- 
tzutze, Great Noodsberg. 
F. Zululand.— St. Lucia Bay {ff. Toiver). 
K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom and Lydenburg (T. Ayres). 
39. (6.) Acraea Nohara, Boisduval. 
Acrcea Nohara, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg. dans I'Afr. Aust., p. 590, 
n. 54[c?](i847). 
Acraea Actiaca, Hewits., Exot. Butt., i. pi. 29, f. 3 [c^] (1852), 
Acrcea Nohara, Wallengr., Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 21, n. 5 [$] (1857). 
,, „ Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 96 (1862) ; ii, pi. 3, f. i [cJ ] 
(1866). 
Uxp. al., I in. 8 lin. — 2 in. 2 lin, 
J Bright hrich-red, with Uach spots and borders. Fore-wing: 
border beginning as a very thin linear edging on costa near base, 
gradually widening to apex (but not broad there), and thence narrowing 
along hind-margin to a point at posterior angle ; hind-marginal part of 
border emitting black ra5^s along the nervules, — the longest rays towards 
apex ; base black, most widely on inner margin ; two spots in dis- 
coidal cell, one elongate-ovate just beyond its middle, — the other 
broader, squarer, at its extremity ; about midway between end of cell 
and apical border, an oblique macular bar formed of five spots, of 
which the first, on costa, is smallest and often obsolete, and the last, 
between third and second median nervules, usually separate from and 
placed at an angle with the fourth spot ; below median nervure and 
not far from terminal cellular spot, a rather large rounded spot ; 
beyond this, a small spot, below first median nervule ; near basal 
