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SOME NEW N.E. AFRICAN LEPIDOPTEEA DISCOVERED 

 BY OSCAR NEUMANN. 



By the Hon-. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D. 



THE following Le])idoptcr;i were obtained by Oscar Neumann durin;; his 

 exjieditiou tn Abyssinia. A list of the captures will be given in the 

 ne.xt volume. 



NYMPHALIDAE. 

 1. Acraea oscari sp. nov. 



(J. Allied to ,1. aretes acara, forcwing broader ; black spots very large. 



V})per»ide. Forewing' : second cell-spot and discocellular bar wider in front 



than the interspace between them ; (fiscal spots SC — R'' comjiletely merged 

 together, spot R'— M' more proximal, touching spot R' — R- jnst with upper corner, 

 discal spots M' — SM- as large as spot R'' — M' ; black marginal and snbraargiual 

 bauds fused together, including a complete series of red spots, which are about 



one-fourth the size of the black discal spots. Hindwing: black basal area sharply 



defined, with or without a white shade outside : discal spots in the same position as 

 in zetes, spot M' — M'- round, touching both veins ; black marginal border narrower 

 than in zetes, with a series of minute whitish dots ; fringe consjiicuously white 

 between veins. 



Underside as above, interspace between black subapical band of forewing black, 

 submarginal band whitish, red submargina! spots of forewing and white ones uf hind- 

 wing larger than above ; hindwing j)ale from near base to near black distal border. 



Abdomen Mack, a dorso-lateral row of small white dots ; last sternite orange. 



Hab. Banka, Male, 10. A 17. ii. llJUl. 



~. Acraea perenna kaflfana subsp. nov. 



c? ?. Wings as extended red as in perenna thesprio from East Africa. 



L'pperside. Forewing : discal spots SO*'" — M' about as large as the red inter- 

 spaces between them and the large spot on cross-veins, spot R'* — M' the largest, at 

 M' about lA mm. from cell ; red spots outside these black ones sharply defined, spot 



R^ — M' broader than long. Hindwing : black basal area more extended than in 



t/iesjiriii, discal spots jiartly larger, muiginal band broader. Uifierences in the 



discal spots of tlie forewing and the marginal band as above. 



Ilaf/. Kaffa and Konta, iii. and beg. of iv. I'Jiil, in various localities. 



:>. Acraea pharsalus rhodiua subsp. nov. 



S. tSimiliir to the specimen described and ligiirod as rullloti by .Alabille ; 

 subbasal spots and middle bar of cell uf forewing iscdated, discal spot M' — M- 

 contiguous with spot on cross-veins ; discal spots SC'— M' merged together with 

 black border of wing between R^ and M', but a small red spot always present 

 between these veins. Hindwing without white patch, discal spots M' — SM- 



