ADDITIONAL SPECIES. 381 



381. (11a.) AcraBa Acrita, Hewitson. 



Acnaa Acrita, Hewitson, Exot. Butt., iii. pi. 8 (Acriea iii.), f. 18 [ cJ ]. 



Exp. al., ($) 2 in. 4-6 lin. 



$ Beep ochreous-red, with a ferruginous tinge, spotted ivith black ; 

 wide apical area of fore-wing ochreous-yelloiv , ptaler on its inner side ; 

 cilia white. Fore-wing : a good-sized ovate black spot in outer half 

 of discoidal cell, and another (more elongatt;) at extremity of cell ; in 

 an oblique line below latter spot towards posterior angle, two other 

 spots, the upper one large, rounded, above first median nervule, — the 

 lower one smaller, narrower, below that nervule ; sometimes a small 

 round spot below median nervure, some way before origin of the first 

 nervule ; costa very finely black-edged from about middle ; apex nar- 

 rowly or broadly black-bordered ; hind-margin narrowly black-edged 

 from end of apical border to posterior angle ; boundary between 

 ochreous-red and apical ochreous-yellow areas not sharply defined, the 

 latter beginning about extremity of cell. Hind-iving : paler on its 

 margins ; base in the middle very narrowly irrorated with blackish ; 

 a small spot in discoidal cell close to base ; an irregular sub-basal row 

 of four spots, of which the first and fourth (respectively next costa 

 and inner margin) are very small and indistinct, and the second is in 

 cell ; immediately beyond upper disco-cellular nervule a rather small 

 rounded spot ; an exceedingly irregular discal row of six moderate-sized 

 spots, of which the first and fifth are nearer base than the rest ; a 

 rather broad black hind-marginal border enclosing seven large spots 

 of the ground-colour, but rather paler. Under side. — Hind-icing and 

 moderately hroad apiccd area of fore-toing with a ground of clear 

 yellowish- creamy, largely obscured in the former by broad didl lake-red, 

 in the latter by narrow reddish-ochreous, internervidar ra.ys. Fore-iving : 

 black-edging everywhere linear ; black spots as on upper side ; ner- 

 vules crossing apical creamy space very finely black. Hind-icing : 

 except in discoidal cell for about two-thirds of its length from base, and 

 in a more restricted space between median and submedian nervures, 

 the internervular lake-red rays leave only a creamy clouding on neura- 

 tion and round spots ; latter as above, but three small additional ones 

 close to base ; spots of hind-marginal border clear yellowish-creamy, 

 and so enlarged that black is reduced to a very distinct and well- 

 defined inner and outer edging to, and nervular lines of separation 

 between, them. 



^ Dushy-broicn, icith the subapical space beyond extremity of dis- 

 coidal cell conspicuonsly paler ; all spotting similar to that of ^ ; colour- 

 ing of under side much duller. 



There is much probability that the $ of this striking and distinct 

 Acra^a is in life of considerably brighter colouring than appears in my 

 description, which was made from Hewitson's types and from a $ cap- 

 tured in 1883 by Mr. Selous. I include the species in this Appendix, 



