152 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. j 
costa near base ; another on inner margin near base ; and two between 
submedian nerviire and inner margin a little before termination of i 
median row ; a very tliin liind-marginal black edging line preceded at , 
a little distance by an equally tliin festooned line ; the space between 
these two lines is clear cream-colour, without irroration^ but is crossed 
by the very fine black nervular lines ; before the festooned line a row 
of eight conspicuous cuneate orange markings of about equal size, the 
eighth interiorly becoming pink ; other dispersed pink markings, irre- • 
gular in form and size, before middle, viz., one on costa at base, two j 
above, one in, one at extremity, one beyond, and two below discoidal 1 
cell ; and a long ray along inner margin. 
Very different from Fore-wing : dull ochreom-yellow ; lase 
widely clouded ivitli UacJdsh as far as middle of discoidal cell, and 
thence the median area suffused with brown; black edging wider gene- i 
rally, but especially at apex ; black spots and two transparent spots 
as in ^. Hind-vjing : creamy-reddish ; spots larger ; hase widely clouded 
with Uackish ; hind-marginal Hack lorder very much hroader, suffusedly 
radiating inwardly on nervules ; ground-colour between rays clouded 
with brown. Under side. — As in ^, but paler and duller. Hind- j 
tvi7ig : submarginal streak thicker and more deeply festooned. 
The of this very distmct Acrcea exhibits affinities with A, Nohara^ 
Boisd., A. Douhledayi, Guer., and A. A?iacreo7i, milii ; its upper surface colour- 
ing and markings resembling those of the first named ; its markings generally 
that of the second ; and its under surface colouring that of the third. From 
all three, and indeed from all the other Acrcece that I have examined, it may 
readily be recognised by the two peculiar diaphanous spots immediately follow- 
ing the costal transverse macular black bar beyond the middle of the fore-wings. 
Tiie singularly minute black spots of the hind-wings are also a very marked 
character in A. Aglaonice. 
The $ is above described from a single Delagoa Bay example given me by 
Mrs. Monteiro. Its general appearance and pattern strikingly resemble those of 
A. Natalica, Boisd., bat it is a much smaller insect. Two 9^ received from j 
Mr. F. C. Selous, who took them on the Marico and Upper Limpopo Rivers | 
early in 1882, agree entirely with the 9 ii^ question except in their smaller 
size (2 in. 1-2 lin.) 
A single male of this butterfly was contained in the collection purchased by j 
the South-African Museum' in 1879 fi'o^i Mr. T. Ayres. It is noted in Mr. " 
Ayres's list as having been captured in the Lydenburg district of the Transvaal. 
There are two males in the Hewitson Collection of the British Museum labelled 
" Transvaal," and Mrs. Monteiro possesses another taken at Delagoa Bay. 
The male specimen on which Professor "Westwood founded the species was 
brought from Tati (21° 28' S.)'by the late Mr. F. Gates, and, as figured, pre- 
sents larger transparent spots than the Lydenburg example above described. 
Three males from the Marico and: Upper Limpopo Rivers, received with the two 
females above mentioned, have the hind-marginal black border rather broader 
at apex of fore-wing and much broader throughout in hind-wing. 
Localities of Acrosa Aglaonice. 
I. South Africa. 
K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District (T. Ayres). Marico and Upper 
Limpopo Rivers (F. C Selous). 
