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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
48. (15.) Acraea Barberi, Trimen. 
PlateIII. fig. I (c^), fig. ia($). ! 
Acrcea Barberi, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, p. 433. 
Ux2:>. al, 2 in. lin. ($) ; 3 in. 2 lin. ($). 
$ Warm hrick-red^ tinged with caronine ; spotted and edged with 
hlack. Fore-wing: base suffused with black, narrowly near costa, but - 
more widely on inner margin ; costa edged witb fuscous very narrowly ; 
from apex to posterior angle a broad hind-marginal fuscous border, 
containing seven large yellow-ochreous spots, of which the first is ' 
smallest, and the second not enclosed by fuscous on its inner edge ; a 
large elongate spot closing discoidal cell ; a similar marking in the ; 
cell not far from the extremity, and another (of variable size and |^ 
rounded) in the cell near base ; slightly beyond the last-named spot, 
and below median nervure, a curved elongate spot, and another (also 
below median nervure) between first and second median nervules; a 
spot below first median nervulo, not far from posterior angle ; beyond 
discoidal cell a subapical transverse black bar of five confluent spots, . 
extending from costa to second median nervule, and slightly curving | 
inwardly at its lower extremity ; beyond this the ground-colour is 
slightly tinged with yellow-ochreous. Hind-iving : Base rather widely 
suffused with black, a disco-cellular spot being partly confluent with 
the suffusion ; a small spot surmounted by a thin short streak at 
extremity of discoidal cell ; an irregular transverse discal row of seven 
rather small spots, of which the first and sixth are nearest base; on 
inner margin an eighth spot is indistinctly perceptible ; a moderately 
broad interiorly-crenelated hind-marginal black border, completely 
enclosing seven rather small yellow-ochreous spots. Cilia white, inter- 
rupted with fuscous at extremities of nervules. Under side. — Markings 
similar; but hind-wing and small siihapical space of fore-wing pinkish- 
white, and ground-colour of fore-iuing pale salmon-pink. Fore-wing : 
Base slightly suffused with black below median nervure only ; two 
very small black spots on costa at base, and a third (very small also) 
close to base in discoidal cell. Hind-iuing : the basal black is a 
sharply-defined patch enclosing six white spots ; an eighth and a ninth 
black spot continue the discal row to inner-marginal edge before middle ; j 
a regular row of seven or eight broad red lunulate marks interiorly I 
bounding hind-marginal black border ; also some red suffusion exteriorly 
bounding basal black ; spots in hind-marginal border larger than on 
upper side, and conspicuously creamy white. 
^ Semi-transparent in fore-iving ; ground-colour very much duller 
and paler ; basal black almost obsolete ; all the blackish markings 
smaller and much tainter, especially the hind-marginal border of hind- 
wing, which is all but obsolete. Under side. — Except in the trans- 
parency of the tore- wing with its fainter spots, and duller white of the 
hind-wing, like that of male. 
