Africa, Southern -- Description and travel; Natural history -- Africa, Southern
The upper surface of the wings (especially the hind pair) of this
species is whitish orange, the base being strongly suffused with dark
brown scales hiding the spots in that part; one of these, near the
extremity of the discoidal cell, is visible, and the cell itself is
closed by a semicircular spot, followed at a short distance by an
oblique abbreviated black fascia formed of conjoined spots, of which
the hinder one is smallest and most distinct; two other spots appear on
the disc of the wing behind the extremity of the cell, and are placed
nearly parallel with the apical margin, which is very narrowly black
and slightly concave: the hind wings have a somewhat more suffused
whitish hue than the anterior; they are brown at the base, and are
marked before the middle with an irregular series of black dots,
followed by two minute ones beyond the middle; the posterior margin is
widely black. On the under side the fore wings have five black spots
in the middle, followed by the abbreviated macular fascia: the hind
wings are more tinged with rose-colour than the anterior ones, and are
marked with about twelve black dots of different sizes; the posterior
margin is pale yellowish white, surmounted by a row of black arches,
resting upon a very narrow black edging. The head and body are black,
spotted with pale buff, the sides of the thorax beneath the wings with
a reddish spot; the abdomen is nearly white, the basal segments on the
upper side black, with a pair of round white dots.
37. (7) ACRÆA AMPHIMALLA, Westw. (Plate E, figs. 1, 2.)
Alis supra fulvo vel puniceo luteis nigro-guttatis, anticarum apice
late nigro triangulariter terminata, posticarum margine apicali e
lunulis nigris, maculis concoloribus inclusis, notato. Expans. alar.
antic. unc. 1¾–2¹⁄₁₂.
(An _Acræa Caldarene_ alicujus?)
Habitat prope Tati, et marg. fluv. Motloutsi; mense Maio capta.
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