10 NY1IPHALID.13. — ACR.EIN.'E. ACILEA. 



apical ami suhiiiarginal markings light l)ro\vii, only the ■\vell-(lofinc(l spots being 

 iihiik. Subapical band white ; siibmarginal spots yellow, except towards tlie 

 apex, where they are white ; towards the hinder angle they are contiguous with 

 the pale portion of the disk, the border being less extended than on the upper 

 side. Posterior wings white, with pale brown borders. Spots as above ; an 

 additional blaek spot is visible at the base, and several of the black spots near the 

 base are partially bordered with pink. On the border is an outer row of white 

 triangular spots capped with black, and an inner row of tawny-yellow sjjots. 



Head and thorax black above, spotted with white, and mostly white 

 beneath ; abdomen black at the base, with a white spot on each side of the two 

 first segments, then black on the back, and tawny on the sides of the segments, the 

 incisions and underside white, and a row of black dots on the sides. Legs white, 

 lined with black ; palpi very large, ascending, yellow, set with short bristles. 



Antennae black. 



The sexes hardly differ. 



Hab. Mahobo, Madagascar. 



lu the ColliX'tions of tbe Hon. Walter Eotlisehild and Heuley Grose Smith. 

 Allied to A. Tiinia. but very differcut in colour. This species might have been supposed to 

 be a seasonal form of A. Ttirint had it not occurred at the same time and in tlie same locality. 



XTII.— ACR.EA NELSONI. i . Figs. 9, 10. 



Jcrmi Pvijifd, var. Henley Grose Smith, " Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society of London," 1890, p. 400. 



Exp. 22 inches. 



J/((/f'. Upperside. Dark brown. Anterior wings with a broad, somewhat 

 oblique, orange-tawny band running from nearly the middle of the costa 

 towards the hinder angle, where it becomes more irregular and constricted, 

 hardly crossing the submedian nervure. Posterior wings with a white trans- 

 verse band commencing on the costa before the tip, and gradually widening to 

 the inner margin. 



Underside similar, but rather paler ; posterior wings with the basal area 

 within the white band dull reddish, with numerous black spots. 



Body black, abdomen tawny on the sides and beneath. 



Hab. Aruwini. 



In the Collection of Henley Grose Smith. 



Closely allied to A. Poygei, Dew., but the white and yellow bands of OTir species are of much 

 more uniform width, being especially much broader on the costa of the wings, and (he orange- 

 tawny baud of A. Pof/ijei curves inwardly and exteuds half way along the inner margin toward.s 

 the base. 



Belongs to the section Planema, Doubl. 



