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Show 1894.] MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 27 doubledayi, are from five different localities, four specimens being from near the Vunduzi Eiver. The males are rather worn, but agree with other Eastern individuals in their semi-transparency and freedom from basal fuscous clouding; the three females are all dusky brownish above, but differ much as regards the subapical whitish bar in the fore wings, which in one case is unusually broad. 18. ACRJEA CALDARENA, Hewits. Acrcea ccddarena, Hewits. Ent. M . Mag. xiv. p. 52 (1877); Trim. S.-Afr. Butt, i. p. 149. n. 42 (1887). The collection contains 19 specimens of this well-marked form, 12 from Christmas Pass and 7 from the Mineni Valley. The species was first described from examples taken on Lake Nyassa ; it ranges westward to Damaraland and southward to the northern Transvaal. One of the females taken in the Mineni Valley is remarkable for the different ground-colour on the upperside, which is a dingy creamy-yellow without any tinge of the ordinary warm ochreous-fulvous; the fore wings are paler, while the fuscous basal suffusion is extended over two-thirds of the hind wings. 19. ACRCEA AGLAONICE, Westw. Acrcea aglaonice, Westw. App. Oates's Matabele-land etc. p. 346. n. 35, pi. F. figs. 9, 10 (1881); Trim. S.-Afr. Butt. i. p. 151. n. 43, pi. iii. fig. 3 (1877). The four males and two females, from the Mineni Valley (three males and a female), Lopodzi Eiver (male), and Lower Pungwe Eiver (female), constitute rather a striking variety in the direction of A. natalica, Boisd. In this form the male has much more fuscous basal clouding and wider apical fuscous in the fore wings, where also the peculiar subapical transparent spots are obsolete or entirely wanting ; while in the hind wings the fuscous hind-marginal border is very much broader and partly radiant on the nervules along its inner edge. The Mineni Valley female nearly resembles that from Delagoa Bay described by m e (op. cit.), but has the transparent spots of the fore wings obsolescent; while the Pungwe Eiver female, though having this marking well expressed, is very much duller in ground-colour, and also presents the peculiarity to which so many female Acrcea are liable, viz., a conspicuous white cloud on the middle disk of the hind wings. I have an exactly similar female to this, which was taken in Zululand (Etshowe) by Capt. A. M . Goodrich in 1887. As regards the male, the South-African Museum possesses one agreeing with Mr. Selous's examples which was taken in the Lydenburg district of the Transvaal by Mr. T. Ayres, and I have examined two others, one taken at Etshowe by Mr. C. N. Barker, and the other at Extcourt, Natal, by Mr. C. W . Morrison. The three males recorded by me (op. cit. p. 152) as taken by Mr. Selous on the Marico and Upper Limpopo are intermediate |