xymphalidj:. — acriix^. — acb^a. 



XII.— ACR-^EA MAEMOEATA. ? . Figs. 7, 8. 



Exp. 2J inches. 



Female. Uppebside. Anterior wings dark brown, with a reddish tint 

 towards the base, and more blackish on the apical third, and with rellowish- 

 tawnv spots and markings. Cell with two black spots, a small one, before the 

 middle, just below the subcostal nervure, and a large one just beyond the 

 middle ; a third, closing the cell, is nearly lost in the dark ground-colour of the 

 apical third. A httle beyond the first spot is a long oblique black spot, 

 ext^ending from just before the origin of the lowest branch of the median 

 nervure to the submedian nervure ; and beyond this is a smaller spot on the 

 inner margin. Below the second spot in the cell are two other rather large ones, 

 the first of which is subtriangular, filHng up nearly haK the space between the two 

 lower branches of the median nervure ; the other spot is below the outer half 

 of this, but is rounder, though irregular in form, and it sends off a small tooth 

 towards the base. Between the second black spot in the cell and that at the 

 extremity runs a yellowish-tawny band, the continuation of which occupies the 

 upper fork of the median nervure, where it is bounded outside by a large round 

 spot indistinctly differentiated from the ground-colour, passes round the outer 

 bide of the large subtriangular spot above described, and then expands widely 

 on both sides of the rounder spot below, and extends on the inner margin from 

 before the middle nearly to the hinder angle. There is al-so an oblique sub- 

 apical, yellowish-tawny stripe, di^-ided into five spots by the nervures, the second 

 of which is very small, and a submarginal row of six spots, the lowest composed 

 of two confluent spots. The dark apical border extends quite to the hinder 

 angle. Incisions whitish. 



Posterior wings yellowLsh-tawny, with black borders, with the incisions 

 white, and a submarginal row of paler tawny dots. Base blackish, followed by 

 a row of three black spots; there are also three whitish spots, one at the 

 extreme base above, one within the third spot, and one outside the second, 

 partially separating it from a thick curved stripe which it nearly touches above. 

 Below the black spot on the inner margin of the anterior wings, commences, on 

 the posterior wiogs, a row of eight black spots, four of which run straight to 

 the middle of the hind margin, forming a right angle with the fifth, seventh, and 

 eighth, which are turned towards the inner margin ; the sixth is set much nearer 

 the base than these ; nearer the base are two more spots on the inner margin. 



UxBEBSiDE with all the dark markings similar, but the light ones much 

 paler ; anterior wings pink at the base, mostly yellowish-grey beyond, the darker 



