SOUTH-AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
nervular projections on the salmon-red central band. Cilia black, with 
white inter-nervular interruptions (small in fore-wing, but large and ' 
conspicuous in hind-wing). Under side. — Paler ; markings much like 
those of upper side. Fore-wing : subapical region more or less clouded | 
with whitish. Hind-wing : in basal black eight small but conspicuous | 
white spots, viz., one basal, two costal, two in cell, and three below 
cell ; a less conspicuous white spot just at external edge of basal black 
on inner margin ; central bar broad, reddish- white, bordered next basal 
and hind-marginal black with pinkish -red ; black border of hind- 
margin much narrower and internally more even than on upper side, 
containing along its middle line eight small but conspicuous inter- 
nervular white spots, of which the seventh and eighth are close 
together, between first median nervule and submedian nervure. 
$ Paler and duller. Fore-iving : basal black wider, emitting a 
projection in discoidal cell, and, in one example, another (broader) 
below first median nervule. Hind-wing : central bar very much 
obscured, and, in one example, externally fading into the very broad 
hind-marginal black. Under side. — Fore-wing : projections of basal 
black more sharply defined. Hind-iuing : in one example, three of the 
white spots in basal black wanting, viz., the outer cellular one and the 
two lower of those below cell. 
Aherrcdion. — ? ^ Fore-wing : all the nervules clouded with white 
near margin, especially on costa before apex. Hind-ioing : all the red 
of central band wanting (except a little towards costa beyond middle), 
"being replaced hy ivhitc^ which also somewhat suffuses basal black; 
hind-marginal black narrower than usual. Under side. — As above, 
but the white somewhat more developed. 
Hah. — Damaraland. (In the Hewitson Collection, British Museum.) 
The description above given of the normal 9 is made from a single 
Damaraland example presented to me many years ago by the late Mr. Charles 
J. Andersson, and from another example sent me from Delagoa Bay by Mrs. 
Monteiro. The special peculiarities noted are in the former specimen. 
The simple but most effective colouring of this remarkable Acroea renders 
it very easy of recognition ; the heavy intense black of the bases and of the 
outer part of the hind- wing, and the absence or great paucity of discal spots 
at once distinguishing it from its nearest congener, A. Natalica, Boisd. 
First discovered on the Zambesi, A. Anemosa is quite a tropical species, 
only being known in South Africa proper as far as about 26° S., in the neigh- 
bourhood of Delagoa Bay and in Swaziland, as well as in the adjacent district 
of Lydenburg in the Transvaal Territory. 
Localities of Acra^a Anemosa. 
I. South Africa. 
G. " Swaziland " {E. C. Buxton). 
H. Delagoa Bay. — Lorengo Marques (J. G. Monteiro). ' 
K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District (T. Ayres). ^ Upper Limpopo {F. 
C. Selous), 
