130 (November, 



apex ; from the abdominal epot to second sub-costal branch an irregular line of 

 golden scales interrupted on each interspace by a blue spot ; a sub-marginal series oi 

 five pale yellow spots ; a semi-circular spot of the same colour on each side of the 

 tail ; body above dark brown ; palpi pale yellow ; wings below nearly as in Papilio 

 Menestheiis, but the discal series of spots in front wings straight ; body below pale 

 yellow ; abdomen with two ventral parallel lines of black. 



Expanse of wings, about 5 inches 2 lines. 



Captured by the late Mr. L. Lormier. Habitat : Madagascar. 

 Note. — The species figured by Mr. Trimen as Papilio Mcnesthcus 

 appears not to be typical. 



Strcatliam Cottage, Buccleuch Road, 

 West Dulwieh, S.E. : 



October, 1874. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF FIVE NEW SPECIES OF ACR2EA FROM WEST 



AFRICA. 



BT "W. C. HEWITSON, F.L.S. 



ACB^A ViKIDIA, sp. n. 



Upper-side : dark brown. Anterior wing with a spot near the apex, and a ])road 

 band below it to the middle of the inner margin, marked (not always) by a black 

 spot, both rufous-orange. Posterior wing scarlet with the base and outer margin 

 dark brown ; a small black spot on the middle of the costal margin. 



Under-side : rufous. Both wings with the OTiter margin rufous-brown marked by 

 a series of pyramidal spots. Anterior wing with a spot in the cell, a band at the end 

 of the cell, and two small spots below these, all black ; the sub-apical spot of tho 

 upper-side nearly white. Posterior wing with fifteen small black spots between tho- 

 base and the middle ; two of them near the base, two near the costal margin, two in 

 the cell, two beyond these and seven between them and the inner margin. 

 Exp. 1-^^ inch. 



Hab. Angola. 



Near A. Eponina ; its chief difference being the arrangement of 

 the basal black spots which are hex'e spread over half the wing, and in 

 Eponina crowded together near the base. 



AcEJEA Oei>'a, sp. n. 



Upper-side: $, dart brown. Anterior wing with the cell scarlet ; a band of six 

 spots, three of which nearest the apex — sometimes dull white, sometimes rufous, — are 

 at an angle with the other three, which arc scarlet, and placed between the branches 

 of the median nervure, the last forming a band near and 2)arallel to the inner margin. 

 Posterior wing scarlet with several spots crowded together near the base, and the 

 outer margin all black. 



Under-side : ochrcous-yellow. Both wings with the ncrvurcs as they approach 

 the outer margin and liiics between them dark brown. Anterior wing with the 



