NYMPHALIDJl-ACKzEIN.^. 



ACR.EA. II. 



VI._ACRiEA KHARA. $ . Figs. 1, 2. 



Acrcpa Khara, Henley Grose Smith, " Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," ser. G, vol. 3, p. 128 (February, 1889). 



Exp. 3 inches. 



" Male. Upperside. Both wings bright reddish-bro\Yn, shaded towards 

 the base with black ; a black band on the outer margin of both wings, broadest 

 at the apex of anterior wings. iVnterior wings : costa broadly black, shaded 

 with black towards the apex ; a spot across the cell, another at the end, beyond 

 which is a cluster of three spots, confluent, beyond this a pale pinkish space, 

 semitransparent ; below the cell are two spots close to the nervures, one near 

 the base, the other halfway between and below the two cellular spots ; below the 

 bist-named is another spot; the spots, and nervures especially towards the apex, 

 l)roadly black. 



" Posterior wings with a cluster of spots from the centre to the base. 



" Underside. Anterior wings reddish-brown, dusky towards the apex ; 

 costa and outer margin narrowly black : nervures from the middle of the wings 

 black. 



" Posterior wings brown, shaded towards the middle with pale, and at the 

 base with darker, pink ; spots and marginal band as above, the latter with a row 

 of pale, narrow, oblong spots between the nervures." (H. G. S., loc. cit.) 



Hab. Mombasa, E. Africa (Last). 



lu the Collectiou of Henley Grose Smith. 



Allied to A. Eijbui, Cram., but brighter, less transparent, anl with a very distinct black band 

 on the outer margin of anterior wings. 



Vn.— ACRiEA SALAMBO. $ . Figs. 3, 4. 



Acrcea Sahviiho, Henley Grose Smith, "Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," ser. 6, vol. 1, p. 02 (.January, 1887). 



Exp. 3^ inches. 



JI/fl/('. " Upperside. Semitransparent, greyish-brown, the inner portion 

 on which the spots are placed much lighter, and tinged with pink. 



" Anterior wings with a large black spot in the middle of the cell, and 



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