( 325 ) 



Respectively. There are two or three minute evanescent dots close to the distal 

 margin about its middle. Fringe black, with small white iuternervnlar patches 



throughout the middle of the distal margin. Hindwing paler in colour than 



forewing. Crossing the cell near but not quite up to its base is a whitish 

 patch ; beginning at the anterior border of the cell, it extends across its 

 posterior border to the inner angle of the wing. In breadth it extends rather 

 beyond half the length of cell. Just below costa beyond extremity of the cell 

 is a spot, and there are three more small spots at the beginning of and following 

 the course of the distal margin. There is also a fourth sometimes indefinite spot 

 near the distal margin just beneath the third radial nervule. Fringe as in 

 upper wing. 



Underside very much as npperside, except that apex of forewing is paler 

 in colour and all spots are more pronounced. The spot in the discoidal cell 

 of the forewing has a small projection extending towards the costa. In the 

 hindwing traces of more submarginal spots appear. 



Expanse : 78 — 83 mm. 



1 S from Nyangori, 1 S Tiriki. 



Evidently near A. hecate Butler in shape, and inferna Butler in markings. 



A. dira can be distinguished at once, however, by the minuteness of the 

 spot in the cell of the forewing, and by the large spot between the first and 

 second median nervules, which is more rectangular in shape than in A. hecate. 



ACKAEINAE. 

 ~'. Acraea cinerea s])ec. nov. (PI. I. f 16). 



cJ. Upperside. Forewing vitreous in the middle, but dusted with dusky 



black scales along the costa, across the apex, and along the distal margin. 

 This dusky border is of considerable breadth in the region of the apex, reaching 

 to the end of the discoidal cell, but narrows rapidly along tlie distal margin, 



ceasing at the jiosterior angle. Hindwing dusted thickly and uniformly 



with dusky black scales of tlie same colour as in the forewing. In the 

 iuternervnlar spaces external to the cell, especially on each side of the discoidal 

 nervule, a small number of scales of a l)rick-red colour. These are almost invisible 

 in some specimens. 



Underside much as on upperside, but the costa of the forewing for nearly 

 two-thirds the length of the cell of a brick-red colour, this tint being more 

 marked towards the base. On the hindwing this colour is distributed over the 

 basal area ; it fills up the distal area of the cell, being bounded on its inner side 

 by a black spot which is situated about the middle of the cell. The brick-red 

 colour also fills up the spaces on each side of the snbmedian nervule for about half 

 its length. In each of these spaces toward the base is a small black spot, and there 

 is a row of three spots bounding the limit of the red area, the first one above the 

 second median nervule. These spots are liable to differ considerably in intensity. 

 Fringe uniformly black. 



? differs in slightly larger size, and in the spotting of the hindwing being 

 much heavier and visible from the upjierside. There is an additional spot at 

 the extremity of the cell, making the fourth of the row, and another at the base 

 of the cell. 



