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in June 1879 a remarkably dark female of tliis form, captured by him near 
D'Urban. In this example the fore-M^ngs are almost uniformly ashy-grey, 
with the apex darker ; the siibapical whitish forms a defined narrow bar, and 
only two ochreous spots are traceable on hind-margin. The liind-marginal 
border of tlie hind-wings has only the faintest indications of spots. 
Localities of Acrcea Buxtoni. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Yerulam, Mapumulo. Mouth of 
Tagela Eiver (/. H. Boioker). 
h. Upper Districts. — Greytown. Pietermaritzburg {Miss Colenso), 
F. Zululand.— St. Lucia Bay {H. Tower). 
G. " Swaziland."— F. E. C. Buxton. 
H. Delagoa Bay. — Lorenzo Marques (/. /. Monteiro and /. //. Bowlier). 
53. (20.) Acraea Cabira, HopfF. 
Acrcea Cabira, Hopff., Monatsber. d. K. Preuss. Acad. d. Wissenscli., 
1855, p. 640, n. 7 ; and Peters' Reise nach Mossamb., Ins., p. 378, 
pL xxiii. ff. 14, 15 [S] (1862). 
Acrcea Cynthia, Trim, [part], lihop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 108, n. 68 (1862). 
Exp. al, {$) I in. 7^-10 lin. ; (?) 2 in. 2-5 lin. 
$ BlacMsh-hrown, with iJale yelloiu-ochrcous hands. Fore-wing : a 
narrow subapical oblique band, of somewhat irregular outline, extend- 
ing from first subcostal nervule to third median nervule at some dis- 
tance from hind-margin ; a very irregularly- shaped medio-discal broad 
patch or short band, of wliich the upper part just enters discoidal cell, 
the inner side projects towards base just below median nervure, the 
outer edge is deeply indented on first median nervule, and the lowest 
part (on inner margin) very much narrowed ; subcostal and median 
nervures red near base, the former more brightly, but the latter to a 
greater length. Hind-vnng : a broad median transverse band, paler 
and narrowed both on costa and inner margin, its inner edge irregu- 
larly indented by some black spots indistinct on the ground-colour, its 
outer edge slightly indented on nervules and much produced outwardly 
between first subcostal and third median nervules, below which the 
band is abruptly narrowed ; in basal area two parallel transverse rows 
of black spots. Under side. — Bands as above, but very much paler, 
and the outer and lower edge of the subapical bar of fore-wing ill- 
defined. Forc-wing : a dull-red suffusion covering basal area, extend- 
ing to end of discoidal cell and to inner edge of disco-median patch, 
and marked in both places with a dark streak ; costa narrowly edged 
with pale-yellowish ; apical space beyond oblique bar, and hind- 
marginal border below it, pale-yellowish crossed by black nervules, 
and by a series of inter-nervular, broad, hastate, fulvous markings, 
narrowly black-edged on each side. Hind-ivi^ig : costa at base tinged 
