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black bar and an obscnre dark grej' spot on its inner side, the transverse and oblique- 

 rnfons bands of the male are represented by similar greyish white bands edged 

 internally by gre3'ish black, one black spot below the cell : posterior wings dnsky 

 brownish grey at the base, beyond which is a broad irregular sordid white band, 

 thence to the outer margin dusky brownish grey, with submarginal whitish streaks- 

 in the interspaces crowned by dusky dark grey rays which extend partially into the 

 central sordid white area. 



Underside : paler, with conspicuous greyish black spots in the middle and 

 towards the end of the cell and below it, a narrow marginal white streak in each, 

 interspace, which is duplicated below the lowest median nervule. 



On the posterior wings the central white band becomes indistinct, the basal 

 spots are smaller and less numerous than in the male, the subconical white streaks 

 in the interspaces on the outer margin as on the upperside, but the dark rays- 

 crowning them extend across the disc nearly to the cell. 



Expanse : 70 mm. 



JIab. Port Alice, Uganda (Ansorge). 



In the collection of the Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



4. Acraea pomponia sp. uov. 



(?. Upperside : both wings dark brown nearly black, anterior wings with aa 

 oblique hyaline band of three spots before the apex, and three oval rufous brown 

 spots on the disc between the median uervules, the upper spot minute, the lowest 

 the largest : posterior wings crossed about the middle by an irregular rnfons 

 brown band. 



Underside : anterior wings with the rufous brown spots much less conspicuous, 

 the apex and outer margin fulvous crossed by dark rays between the veins : jiosterior 

 wings with the basal two-thirds rather bright pale fulvous, the outer third crowned 

 by an irregular black band with a series of black rays between the veins to the- 

 outer margin, bordered on either side by pale fulvous markings, one black spot in 

 the cell towards its base, and a series of other spots of irregular size in the basal 

 half of the wings. 



Expanse : 41 mm. 



Hab. Usukama. 



In the collection of Mr. Grose-Smith. 



Nearest to H. peneleos Ward, but a smaller insect ; the rufous brown band 

 crossing the posterior wings is narrower, and the anterior wings are more opaque. 



5. Acraea pelasgius sp. nov. 



cJ. Upperside : anterior wings greyish brown semi-vitreous, three vitreous- 

 spots placed obliquely before the apex, outside which and following the contour 

 of the outer margin to the outer angle is a series of brown rays or markings between 

 the veins, the uppermost the shortest, the marking between the two lowest median 

 nervules the most elongate ; those on either side of the submedian nervnre confluent : 

 posterior wings bright brown, with marginal dark rays along the veins and in the 

 intersi)aces, four black spots in the cell ; numerous others clustered round the cell 

 and towards the base. 



