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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
Localities of Acrcea Encedon. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
b. Eastern Districts. — King William's Town (/. H. Bowker). 
D. KafFraria Proper. — Bashee River (/. //. Bowker). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Verulam. Mapumulo. 
h. Upper Districts. — Pietermaritzburg. 
F. Zululand. — St. Lucia Bay (//. Tower). 
H. Delagoa Bay. — Lorengo Marques (/. /. Monteiro and J. H. Boioker). 
K. Transvaal. — "Southern Part (iV. Person)." — Wallengren. Upper 
Limpopo {F. Q. Seloiis). 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — Damaraland (/. A. Bell). "Angola {J. J. Mon- 
teiro).'^ — Druce. " Kinsembo, Congo {H. Ansell)." — Butler. 
" Chinchoxo {Falkensteiri)" — Dewitz. 
h. Eastern Coast. 
hh. Madagascar [Caldwell). 
B. North Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — Sierra Leone. — Coll. Brit. Mas., &c. 
h. Eastern Coast. — "Abyssinia {Lefebvre)'' — Guerin-Meneville. 
h\. Interior. — White Nile. Upper Egypt. 
50. (17.) Acrsea Rahira, Boisduval. 
(J Acrxa Rahira, Boisd., Faune Ent. de Madag., &c., p. 33, pi. 5, IF. 4, 5 
(1833): and App. Voy. de Deleg. dans I'Afr. Aust., 
p. 590 (1847). 
$ „ „ Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 103, n. 65 (1862). 
Exp. al., I in. 8 lin. — 2 in. 3 lin. 
J Warm yellotu-ocJireous, luitli a rufous tinge, spotted with hlacL 
Fore-wing : a small ovate or reniform spot in discoidal cell, a little 
beyond its middle ; a larger, irregular-shaped spot at extremity of 
cell ; costa edged with blackish, widest at apex ; beyond extremity of 
discoidal cell, an oblique transverse row of four spots, from just below 
costa to second median nervule, not far from hind-margin ; two black 
spots, one above and the other below first median nervule, lying 
nearer to base than the row of four spots ; on hind-margin, nervules 
strongly clouded with blackish, which, narrowing inwardly, forms sharp, 
distinct rays, deeply piercing the ground-colour ; base narrowly black- 
ish. Hind-iving : lower portion of base clouded with blackish ; two 
transverse rows of spots, — one, before middle, of few spots, irregular 
and interrupted, — the other, commencing about middle of costa, and 
extending to about middle of inner margin, is rather sinuous, and 
angulated on radial nervule, from whence to inner margin it proceeds 
in a direct line, containing eight spots in all; parallel to the row last 
mentioned, a more or less distinct grey streak, from just before anal 
