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4. Acraea doubledayi equatorialis snbsp. nov. 



c? ? . The specimens present some points of distinction from either the 

 tyiiical or axina Westw. forms. 



tJ. The dusky suffusion at the base of both wings and the black border are 

 both considerably reduced. The two small sjiots near the apical angle of the 

 forewing, present in ihubledai/i, absent from axina, may or may not be pi'esent. 

 The black internervular snbapieal and distal marginal streaks (2 — 3 in doubledayi, 

 3 — 4 in axina) are always five in number, with sometimes traces of a si.xth. 

 These characters ajsply to both sexes. The ? also differs in its remarkably pale 

 colour. 



Of 22 ? ?, 10 have white hiud wings with greyish white fore wings, and the 

 rest are considerably paler than southern forms, being mostly more or less suffused 

 with white. The white bar in the forewing resembles that in the axina form. 



Taking all the characters into consideration, this may be looked upon as 

 an extreme form of axina, or rather that axina is intermediate between the 

 typical doubledayi and this form from the Victoria Nyanza. 



5. Acraea mystica spec nov. 



S. Brick-red and pink with black markings. 



I'pperside. Forewing : ground-colour brick-red with an orange tint, a 



narrow, almost linear, black margin, even at apex. The following spots : one 

 within the cell, a little beyond its middle ; one at the upper part of extremity of 

 cell. Beyond cell an obli(|ue row of five spots, of wliich the last, situated below 

 third radial nervule, is separated from the rest. Below extremity of cell, two spots 

 above and below second median nervule, and nearer base a small spot below median 

 nervure. A pale subapical bar beyond oblique row of spots. Crossing apex and 

 along distal margin five black subapical and submarginal internervular streaks, 



of which the lowest is paired. Hindwing : ground-colour bright ]iink. Heavily 



black at base, with a black border of medium breadth slightly serrated inwardly. 

 The following spots all rather reduced : two beneath costa, two within cell, one 

 at upper part of extremity of cell, one near base below median nervure. A highly 

 irregular discal row of rather small spots crosses wing, eight or nine in number, 

 of which the third and fifth are nearest the base of the wing. 



Underside. Paler, spotting much as on upperside. Forewing has light 



brown subapical and submarginal streaks. Hindwing has fenestrated black margin, 

 enclosing seven semilunar spots of a pale greyish colour. Abdomen white. 



Expanse, 6'3 mm. 



One rather worn S from Kisumu, March 1903. 



Closely allied to A. sykesi Sharpe and ^l. doubledayi Guerin in character 

 of spotting and marking, but differs in much larger size and brilliance of colour, 

 which must be very marked in a fresh specimen. 



6. Acraea clarei spec. nov. (PI. I. f. 4). 



c? ? . Red and rosy pink with black markings and borders. 



S. Upperside. Forewing brick-red, shading to black from extremity of cell 



