NYMPIIALlD.E.-ACPi.EIN^. 



ACR.EA I. 



L— ACPwEA POLLONIA. s . Figs. 1, ± 



Acnra FoUonia, Godnian aiul Salviu, " Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," ser. 6, vol. 1, p. 120 (March, 1889). 



Exp. '2f inches. 



Male. Upperside. Both wings cinereous-brown. Anterior wings semi- 

 transparent, more opaque towards the apex and along the outer margin 

 Posterior wings cinereous-brown, darker towards the outer margin, in the area 

 between the two upper median nervules, and in a triangular space towards the 

 base, beneath the median nervure, a sulphureous-white band crosses the middle, 

 divided by the dark nervures, commencing beneath the first subcostal nervule, 

 and crossing the outer third of the cell, interrupted by the dark space between 

 the two upper median nervules, and continued between the middle and third 

 median nervules and thence to near the inner margin. 



Underside. Anterior wings almost devoid of scales, and faintly iridescent 

 green, with live rather small indistinct sulphureous-white submarginal spots 

 between the veins, commencing near the apex. Posterior wings pervaded in 

 certain lights with faint iridescent green, with abroad cinereous-brown marginal 

 band centred with a row of sulphureous-white conical spots l^etween the veins, 

 gradually diminishing in size towards the anal angle ; the costal and inner 

 margin, base, and an irregular triangular patch below the median nervure, 

 extending at its upper end into the cell, dark cinereous-brown, the rest of the 

 wings and a spot towards the upper end of the triangular patch irrorated with 

 sulphureous-white, more densely so towards the base and the inner margin. 



Hab. Guadalcanar (C. M. Woodford). 



In the Collections of Messrs. Godinan and Salvin anJ H. Grose Smith. 



The specimen described by Messrs. Godman and Salvin is a female —it closely resembles the 

 male in every respect except in the expansion of the wings, which is one-fourth greater. 



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