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given off before extremity of discoidal cell, second considerably beyond 
it ; u2JpcT disco-cellular nervulc rcmarkctUy long, and so directed longitic- 
dinally as to look like a prolongation of sulcostal nei'vure ; middle disco- 
cellular extremely short, the tiuo radial ncrvides originating close to each 
other ; lower disco- cellular ratlier long, only sliglitly oblique, joining 
first median nervule at a ratlier acute angle some way from its origin ; 
discoidal cell thus elongated but very narrow. Hind-iuings shaped as 
in typical Acrma ; second subcostal nervule angulated at junction with 
upper disco-cellular ; radial nervule much curved near its origin. Legs 
as in Acra^a. 
Abdomen longer than liind- wings, remarkably slender, in $ without 
any corneous appendage. 
The characters particularised above, and especially the very singular 
arrangement of the disco-cellular and radial neuration of the fore-wings, 
seem to warrant the generic separation of Acraxc p)unctatissima, Boisd. 
The very large number of black spots on the wings gives this butterfly 
a peculiar aspect, and it differs from Acra3a and Plancma in having 
both thorax and abdomen unspotted, the latter being ochre-yellow on 
the sides and beneath. Its structure is so slender, and its flight so 
weak, as to remind one of Fonticc Alcesta among the Fierincc. Origin- 
ally discovered in Madagascar, it has since been found to have an 
extensive range in Eastern and Soutli-Eastern Africa. 
56. (1.) Pardopsis punctatissima, (Boisduval). 
Acrcea punctatissima, Boisd., Faune Ent. Madag, &c., p. 31, n. 5, pL 6, 
f. 2 (1833). 
Var. Acrcea Stictica, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg. dans lAfr. Aust., 
p. 590, n. 51 (1847). 
Acrcea Functatissima^ Trim., Bhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 105, n. 66 (1862). 
Exp. al.^ I in. 6 lin. — i in. 8 lin. 
Fcde yellow- oclir eons, semi-transparent ; thickly spotted loith hlack. 
Forc-iuing : base sliglitly blackish between the nervures ; costa narrowly 
edged with blackish ; apex rather broadly clouded with the same ; 
which is continued along hind-margin in a narrow border, forming 
rounded spot-like projections between nervules, indenting the ground- 
colour ; three small spots on costa before the middle, and one just 
beyond the middle ; four spots in discoidal cell, viz., two small rounded 
ones near base, only divided from the first two on costa by subcostal 
nervure ; a large kidney-shaped one, as long as cell is wide, just above 
insertion of first median nervule ; and a rounded spot, not so large as 
the last, at extremity of cell ; a good-sized spot below median nervure, 
before insertion of first median nervule ; a sinuous, irregular, transverse 
row of seven spots commencing beyond extremity of cell on second 
subcostal, and extending to inner margin about middle, — the last spot 
being small, but with a prolongation towards base ; parallel and near 
