748 EAST AFRICAN LEPIDOPTEEA— HOLLAND. vol.xviii. 



uuuiber of years ago from Dr. Staudiuger, who labeled it A. pharsalia. 

 A search in the literature of the subject seems to make it clear that this 

 is a mauuscript name; at all eveuts I have uo clue to the i^ublicatiou 

 of a species under this name. -1. 2>/Kfr.srf/j<.v, Ward, is a Avell-known 

 species, totally distinct from the one under consideration, as appears 

 from the male specimen before me. While there is a general resem- 

 blance between the females of the two species A.pharsaJiis and A. phar- 

 saloides, the males differ greatly, as is seen upon comparison. In fact, 

 had I possessed a male of the species at the time I published my orig- 

 inal description, I do not think that I would have applied to this form 

 the name which I gave it. The male of pharsalus, owing to the distri- 

 bution of the red and black spots of the primaries, resembles the 

 insects of the Egina group, while the male of pharsaloides more closely 

 resembles A. ahdera and its allies. 



Male type.—^o. 54, U.S.N.M. 



There is a single example of the male of this species. The original 

 type was a female. 



ACRiEA PERENNA, Doubleday. 



Acrcea perenna, Doubleday, Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. Diurn. Lep., I, 

 p. 141, pi. XIX, fig. 4 (1848). 



There are two males not differing materially from specimens from the 

 W^est Coast, though the red on the lower margin of the primaries is 

 extended a little more broadly toward the base than in the examples 

 in my collection from Sierra Leone and elsewhere. 



Genus PLANEMA, Doubleday. 

 PLANEMA CHANLERI, new species. 



The i)rimaries upon the u^jper side are dark brown, interrupted by a 

 reddish, ochraceous, submacular, discal band, composed of eight spots. 

 Of these spots the five uppermost are narrow and elongated. The two 

 upper spots are short, the three lower ones of the five are advanced 

 inwardly forming a curved inward projection accommodated to the 

 line of the discocellulars, and in serial order from the top of the row 

 to the bottom extend outwardly more and more, at their outward 

 extremities. Just below these spots and projecting still farther out- 

 wardly, but not extending as far inwardly, is an oblong (piadrate spot. 

 Below this, between veins 2 and 3, is the largest spot of the series, 

 having its outer extremity quadrate, and its inner extremity defined 

 by an oblique line running from about the middle of vein 2 obliquely 

 upward to near the origin of vein 3. Below this on the first median 

 interspace is a small triangular spot with its base parallel to the outer 

 margin and its apex pointing toward the base of the wing. The sec- 

 ondaries are crossed on the middle by a broad, reddish, ochraceous 

 band, with its inner margin approximately straight and its outer mar- 

 gin regularly curved and parallel to the outer margin. The outer 

 margin is bordered by a broad dark brown band, the inner edge of 

 which is regularly jjroduced inwardly on the nervules and at the 

 middle of eiich interspace. The basal area is rich maroon, profusely 



