Africa, Southern -- Description and travel; Natural history -- Africa, Southern
This very distinct species has the wings on the upper side of a buff
colour, varying from dull orange to reddish; the black spots are of
small size, and the fore wings have the apex broadly and triangularly
black, whilst the hind wings have the slender apical outer black margin
preceded by a series of slender depressed black arches enclosing
spots of the ground colour of the wing; the ordinary black spot in
the middle of the discoidal cell is sometimes preceded by a smaller,
more or less slightly marked, dot, behind which is another small one;
the cell is partially closed by a small oblique black spot, followed
at some distance by a row of four small spots placed obliquely, and
there are two other small spots between the middle of the wing and
the posterior angle, the outer one being occasionally duplicated; in
the hind wings the black spots, about twelve in number, are of nearly
uniform small size. On the under side the black apex of the upper side
is replaced by the ground colour of the rest of the wing, the spaces
between the veins being more strongly marked with orange stripes: the
hind wings are buff-coloured, with the spaces between the veins in the
basal portion marked with red, having the black dots (about twenty in
number) surrounded with buff, whilst in the apical half of the wing
the intervening spaces are more orange; the black arcade preceding the
slender outer black edging is marked more distinctly than on the upper
side. The head and body are spotted as in the preceding species.
38. (8) ACRÆA NATALICA, Boisduval in Delegorgue’s Voy. Afr.
Austr. ii. p. 590; Hopffer in Peters’s Reise Mossamb. pl. 23,
figs. 12, 13.
_Acræa Bellua_, Wallengren, Lep. Caffr. p. 22.
_Acræa Hypatia_, var. B, Trimen, p. 98.
A series of small specimens, measuring only 2 inches in expanse of the
fore wings, were taken at Tati. A large specimen (2¾ inches expanse)
was taken near the Dry River in the beginning of March, and one (2½
inches expanse) was taken near the Motloutsi River in August.
39. (9) ACRÆA ANEMOSA, Hewitson, Ex. Butt. t. 3, Acr. 3, f. 14,
15.
Near the Umvungu River, end of October; and near the Victoria Falls in
January.
40. (10) ACRÆA NEOBULE, E. Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep.
pl. 19, f. 3; Reiche in Ferr. and Gal. Voy. Abyss. pl. 33, f. 3,
4.
An var. _Acræa Mahela_, Boisduval, Faune Madag. pl. 6, f. 1?
Ramaqueban River, February 14, 1874.
41. (11) ACRÆA RAHIRA, Boisduval, Faune Madag. pl. 5, f. 4, 5;
Trimen, p. 103.
Taken on the Zambesi road, end of November.
42. (12) ACRÆA DIRCÆA, Westw.
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