1895. PliOCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 747 



line beyoud the cell. The latter series and the spot in the center of the 

 cell are equidistant from the spots at the end of the cell. Three similar 

 black spots situated on intervals 1, 2, and 3, form a curved series 

 inwardly convex, just beyoud the cell. The secondaries are ojiaque, 

 light red deepening toward the base of the wing, bordered with deep 

 black, upon which are indistinct traces of lighter markings between 

 the extremities of the nervules. The spots of the under side appear 

 faintly upon the upper side of this wing, the only spots which are dis- 

 tinct being the one at tlie end of the cell and live beyond it forming a 

 zigzag series. The under side of the primaries is marked ])recisely as 

 the upper side, except that the submarginal acuminate si)ots are pale 

 ochraceous, and not red as upon tlie upper surface. Tbe secondaries 

 are pale yellowish ochraceous, marked with patches of flesh color. They 

 are bordered with deep black, upon which a regular row of pale yellow 

 liiiudes stands forth sharply defined against the black ground. The 

 base and disk are spotted with numerous moderately large deep black 

 spots, all sharply defined, and those nearest the base ringed about with 

 narrow yellowish lines. The upper side of the thorax is black, witli 

 two bright yellow spots on its posterior margin. The upper side of the 

 abdomen is black with a row of circular yelloAv spots on either side of 

 the median line, increasing in size toward the anal extremity. Below 

 these spots there is on either side a lateral yellow stripe. The under 

 side of the abdomen is i)ale reddish marked with a double row of black 

 hmulate markings, one on either side of the abdominal aspect of each 

 segment. The lower side of the thorax is black spotted with red spots. 

 The legs are margined with red and the lower sides of the palpi are red. 

 The antennte are black. Expanse, 00 mm. 



Type.— No. 52, U.S.N.M. 



This species is allied to A. douhJedayi, Guenee, and A. axina, West- 

 wood, but is abundantly distinct. 



ACR^A PHARSALOIDES, Holland. 



Acrwa pharsaloidvs, Holland, Eut. SaiipL, 1892, p. 89; Proc. U. S. Nat. Miis., 

 XVIII, p. 232 (189G). 



Male. — Does not diflFer to a marked extent from the female, except that 

 the general ground color of the upper side of both wings is of a much 

 brighter red than in the case of the female, and the transverse sub- 

 apical bar of black spots is not as wide as in the female, and shows no 

 tendency to coalesce with the spots at the end of the cell, as in the case 

 of the female. The pale fiiscons, transverse band situated in the 

 apical region of the primaries of the female is replaced in the male 

 by a band of the same form exactly, but of the prevalent red color of 

 the rest of the Aving, The specimen of the male before me is also 

 noticeably smaller than the female from Kilimanjaro in the Abbott 

 collection. 



A male exactly like the one in this collection was purchased by me a 



