NYMPHALID.E.-ACPwEIX.E. 



ACll.EA. III. 



IX.— ACR^A VESPERALTS. g . Figs. 1, 2. 



Acrcea Veaprralis, Henley Grose Smith, "Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society of London," 1890, p. 46G. 



Exp. 2|- inches. 



" 3/ah\ Upperside. Anterior wings vitreous, with veins, costal margin, 

 apical and outer marginal area, a broad, somewhat oblique band crossing the 

 cell and thence nearly to the posterior angle, and a patch beyond the end of the 

 cell, more or less densely dusted with fuliginous brown scales. Posterior wingw 

 semi-vitreous, the inner three-fourths pale ochreous brown, the outer fourth 

 darker brown, which colour radiates up the veins on the disk nearly as far as 

 the cell, a cluster of brown spots at the base, and a dark brown si)ot on the 

 upper discocellular nervule at its jmiction with the discoidal nervule. 



"Underside. Anterior wings as above; posterior wings uniform brown, 

 brighter than the pale brown area of the upperside ; a cluster of dark brown 

 spots at the base, followed by a row of four spots before the middle, outside 

 which are two smaller spots beyond the cell, below the discoidal and upper 

 median nervules respectively." (H. G. S., he. cit.) 



Hab. Central Africa (Bonny). 



Allied to A. PentipoUs, Ward. In colour and general appearance it bears a superficial 

 resemblance to the female of Pareba Venta, Fabr. 



X.— ACE^A CRYSTALLINA. g . Figs. 3, 4. 



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

 History," ser. 0, vol. 5, p. 1G7 (February, 1890). 



Exp. 2|- inches. 



" Mah\ Upperside. Botli wings devoid of scales except at the apex of 

 anterior wings, where they are narrowly brownish-grey, narrowly irrorated 

 internally with ochreous, and on the outer margin of posterior wings, where 



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