Under Side. Palpi and legs buff-coloured. Breast russet. Abdomen dark orange. Wings russet-coloured, with bands of lighter and darker shades running from the anterior edges of the anterior wings, and ending below the body on the abdominal edges, some of the bands being verged with black. Anterior wings having three small black spots placed near the shoulders, and the posterior with two small white spots at the abdominal corners, and four others placed along the external edges, growing fainter as they approach the upper corners, till at length they are quite lost.
PLATE XXVIII.
ACRÆA HORTA.
Plate [XXVIII]. fig. 1, 2.
Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: Heliconiidæ.
Genus. Acræa, Fabr. Latr. Papilio (Heliconii), Fabr. olim.
Acræa Horta. Alis oblongis integerrimis, supra fulvis; anticis ad extimum hyalino-cinerascentibus, posticis utrinque nigro punctatis subtusque albidis. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 7½ lin.)
Syn. Papilio (Helic.) Horta, Linn. Syst. Nat. 2. p. 755. No. 54. Drury, App. vol. 3. Cramer, Pap. pl. 298. fig. F. G. Herbst. Pap. tab. 83. f. 1. 2. Enc. Méth. ix. p. 231. 1.
Habitat: "Sierra Leone, Mr. Smeathman, 1776" (Drury's MSS.). Cape of Good Hope, and other parts of Africa (Enc. Méth.).