4 NVMrilVLIDiE. ACR-EIN^. — ACR.EA. 



Malt'. Uppersidk. Anterior wiii,<j;s cxtrpmely loiiji;, narrow, aud pointed; 

 vitreous, narrowly edged with black, and washed with pink at the base, more or 

 less along the costa and the principal veins. l)ut most along tlie inner margin ; 

 a series of suffused orange-rufous spots between the nervures before the lilack 

 edging of the hind margin ; there is a black transverse spot in the cell, another 

 at the end, and a row of four or five beyond, running from the costa ; there 

 are two more nearer the base above the submedian nervure, and often another 

 in the first fork of the median. 



Posterior wings pink, sometimes a little paler in tlie middle, and with 

 several black spots, and those on the underside showing through; base blackish, 

 hind margin with a moderately broad black border. 



Underside similar, but anterior wings with the submarginal sj)ots between 

 the nervures larger, better defined, and more orange-coloured ; posterior wings 

 buff, faintly mottled with pink towards the base and along the inner margin, 

 with about nineteen black spots. Hind margin with a festooned black line, 

 enclosing seven buff crescent-shaped or slightly sagittate spots. 



Body black above, head and thorax with piidiy-white spots; abdomen with 

 two rows of large white ones; legs, palpi, and undersiirface of abdomen (the 

 last spotted with black) rusty-yellow ; a jiink sjiot on each side under the 

 wings. Club of the autenn.ie very large and round. 



Fiiiiale. Anterior wings vitreous, edged with Ijlack, slightly stained with 

 dull pink along the costa and inner margin ; the submarginal spots tawny- 

 yellow ; the black spots as in the male. 



Posterior wings white, with a black border, and shading into dark gi-eyish- 

 brown at the base ; the inner margin slightly stained with pink ; the spots as in 

 the male. 



UxDEKSiDE similar to the upper ; l)ut on the posterior wings the black spots 

 at the base are fused into a single baud, bordered outside with pink, which colour 

 likewise extends along the inner margin. The ground-colour does not darken at 

 the base, and there is a row of white oblong spots in the black hiud-niarginal 

 border. 



Pody as in the male, but less yellow beneath. 



Hab. Somali Land, Kilima-njaro (5,000 feet, August), liamu, luul 

 Mombasa (Last), East Africa. 



In the Collections of the British Museum and of Heulev Grose Smith. 

 Allied to A. Oncua. Hopff. 



