NYMPHALID.E.-ACR.EIN.E. 



ACR.EA. y. 



XIX.— ACR^A LIA. $ . Figs. 1, 2, ? . Fig. 3. 



Acreea lAa, ]\Iabille, " Biilletiu cle la Societe Philomathique de France," 

 ser. 7, vol. 3, p. 132 (1879). Grandidier, " Histoire de Madagascar: Lepidop- 

 teres," I., p. 97, pi. 9a, figs. 8, 8a (1885-1887). 



Exp. If- inches. 



Male. Upperside. xAnterior wings hyaline, with the costa and hind 

 margin smoky brown ; base red to half the length of the cell, and obliquely to 

 the inner margin nearly to the hinder angle. Posterior wings red, base and 

 inner margin, except at the anal angle, greyish- brown, spotted with black ; 

 hind margin bordered ynih. black. Two black subcostal spots, two in and one 

 at the extremity of the cell, and a row of large confluent spots curving round 

 from the base below and beyond the cell ; above the submedian nervure is a 

 large spot, connected with the band, and below it, nearer the base, are some 

 small spots nearly lost in the dark colour of that part of the wing. 



Underside. Anterior wings as above ; posterior wings light pink, with 

 large red spots placed within most of the black ones ; black border edged 

 outside between the nervures with a row of buff equilateral triangles, and inside 

 with a row of large red spots. 



Body black, with two yellowish and two white spots on the front of the 

 thorax ; abdomen spotted with white on the back and with yellow on the 

 upper part of the sides ; below yellowish, with three macular longitudinal black 

 stripes ; palpi beneath and legs yellowish. 



Female similar, but with the red colour replaced by tawny. The underside 

 of the posterior wings is whitish, with the red spots within the border replaced 

 by dull orange ones ; those nearer the base obsolete. 



Hab. S.W. Madagascar (Last). 



In the Collection of Mr. H. Grose Smith. 



VOL. II., JLLY, 1894. K K 



