SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
elongated; colouring and markings normal, except that all the black 
spots are lengthened and attenuated. 
Hob. — Natal (Maritzburg, Grey town, and Udland's Mission Station). 
The $ s from Basutoland and the sources of the Umzimvubu are much 
paler and smaller than those from Natal; diminished size is also very note- 
worthy in the $ s from the same districts. In these S s, and also in one from 
the southern border of KafFraria Proper, the whitish scaling before the apex 
of fore-wings exhibits an approach to the oblique indistinct bar possessed 
by the $ . 
A $ taken near Estcourt, Natal, by Mr, J. M. Hutchinson, presents the 
peculiarity of Mnd-ivings of the same warm fulvous tint that characterises 
the c?. 
This very distinct species has no known near ally ; its appearance, how- 
ever, approximates it to ^. Raldra, Boisd. From the latter it is distinguished 
readily, not only by the bright fulvous colouring of the $ and the greater 
transparency of the $ , but by the possession of a spotted hind-marginal border. 
This last-named character is also presented by A. Buxtoni, Butl., but the small 
size of that species, and its want of any discal spots in the fore-wings, preclude 
the possibility of confusing it with Anacreon. 
In April 1865 two $ specimens, taken on the bank of a small river called 
the Sogana, were received by mo from Colonel Bowker, and these KafFrarian 
examples were the only ones I had seen until March 1867, when I found the 
species pretty commonly in the Umvoti District of Natal, particularly near 
Greytown and about the Noodsberg. Like A. Raliira, this butterfly delights 
in damp, reedy spots, and has a very weak low flight. It frequently settles on 
flowers, and the 9 s may easily be taken with the fingers. I met with Raliira 
in the same district, and often in the same spots ; the two species, where they 
occurred together, being equally numerous. 
Localities of Acrcea Anacixon. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
d. Basutoland. — Heads of the Orange River (/. H. Bowker). 
D. KafFraria Proper. — Sogana River (/. H. Boioker). Heads of the 
Umzimvubu (/. H. Bowker). 
E. Natal. 
h. Upper Districts. — Great Noodsberg. Greytown. Estcourt (/. M. 
Hidchinson). Maritzburg (Colonel S. Scott). 
K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District {T. Ayres). 
52. (19.) Acrsea Buxtoni, Butl 
Acrcea Serena (Fab.), Boisd., App. Yoy. de Deleg., p. 590 (1847). 
Acrcea Manjaca (Boisd.), Wallgrn., Lep. Rhop. Cafi'r., p. 22 (1857). 
Acra^a Serena (Fab.), pars, Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 107, n. 67 
(1862). 
Acrcea Buxtoni, Butl., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), xvi. p. 395 (1875). 
Bxp. al., I in. 7 lin. — 2 in. 
$ Bright fidvous-oclweouSy with narroiv hlackish horders and a few 
Hack sp)ots. Fore-wing : base very faintly and narrowly blackish ; costa 
with a narrow blackish border, wider about middle ; about middle 
