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SOUTH-AFRICA^^ BUTTERFLIES. 
97. (4.) Pseudacraea Trimenii, Butler. 
^ $ Panopea Boisduvalii, Trim, [part], Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., xxvi. pp. 
517-518, t. 43, ff. 8, 9 (1869). 
^ Pseudacrcea Trime7iii, ButL, Ent. M. Mag., xi. p. 57 (1874). 
Var. c^, Trim., loc. cit., pp. 517-518 = Pseudacrcea Colvillei, But!., Ann. 
and Mag. Nat. Hist,, 5th Ser., xiv. p. 123 (1884). 
Uxp. ah, {$) 3 in. 3-5 lin. ; ($) 3 in. 8-1 1 lin. 
$ Deep-red {more vivid and carmine-tinged in hind-wing), spotted 
and hordered with hlach ; apical half of fore-iuing semi-transparent 
fuscous^ crossed hy an oUiqiie yellow- ochrcous har. Fore-wing : costa 
from base very narrowly, apex broadly, and hind-margin rather nar- 
rowly, bordered witli black ; on inner margin for a little distance from 
base a narrow black or fuscous streak, prolonged thence as a mere 
linear edging as far as posterior angle ; red ground-colour not reaching 
upper corner of extremity of discoidal cell, nor rising above second 
median nervule, but extending to hind-marginal border ; in discoidal 
cell, five rather large rounded black spots, viz., one near base, two 
obliquely placed about middle, and two (the lower situated on lower 
disco- cellular nervule) at extremity ; below median nervure, six similar 
spots, viz., one at base, two (one above and a little beyond the other) 
near base, and three (in a transverse row) situated respectively on 
second median nervule at its origin, on first median nervule, and on 
submedian nervure ; all these spots are very thinly ringed with semi- 
transparent fuscous-grey scales ; neuration everywhere black ; semi- 
transparency of apical half of wing most pronounced on its inner por- 
tion ; oblique yellow-ochreous bar variable in width, sometimes rather 
narrowed superiorly, extending from costal to hind-marginal black 
border ; from hind-margin a series of seven strongly-marked inter- 
nervular black rays (changed to fulvous where they cross the ochreous 
bar), much thickened inwardly, especially the three lower ones. Hind- 
iving : a,t base, four or five black spots unite to form a large marking 
above and partly entering discoidal cell ; the black at base of cell is 
marked with a white or whitish spot ; in cell near extremity a good- 
sized rounded black spot, and a similar spot on the disco-cellular 
nervule ; another black spot just below median nervure, and a row of 
three small ones on the median nervules at or near their origins ; a 
moderately-broad hind-marginal black border containing seven fulvous- 
ochreous spots between nervules ; the inner edge of this border radiates 
slightly on the nervules, and in some specimens also emits short inter- 
nervular rays ; about median nervure and its branches and submedian 
nervure some more or less distinct clouding of whitish scales. Cilict 
extremely narrow, black, in hind- wing with very minute inter- nervular 
white spots. Under side. — Very like upper side, but deep-red replaced 
by rose-pink tinged with carmine. Fore-wing : borders fuscous-grey 
instead of black ; yellow-ochreous bar paler ; black spots as on upper 
