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the middle one oval and larger than the others, and two large ones above and 

 three small ones below the submedian nervure. 



Underside. Fore wings as above, but the spots are buff, dusted with 

 reddish. Hind wings greenish-grey, with broacl borders ; the spots as above, 

 except that there are also two large subcostal ones, and three spots above as 

 well as below the submedian nervure. 



Body black above, yellowish below, legs black, lined with yellowish. 



Hab. St. Thomas, West Africa (Newton). 



In. the Collection of the Lisbon Museum. 



Taken at St. Nicolau at a height of 800 metres above the sea by Senhor Francesco 

 Newton. 



Belongs to the group of A. Bonasia, Fabricius. 



This and the two following species were submitted to Miss Sharpe for determination by 

 Professor Barboza de Bocage, the Director of the Lisbon Museum; and we are much obliged to 

 Miss Sharjie for kindly giving us the opportunity of figuring them. 



XXII.— ACE.EA NEWTONI. i . Figs. 8, 9. 



Jcraa Ncictoni, E. M. Sharpe, " Proceedings of the Zoological Society of 

 London" (1893), p. 554. 



Exp. If inches. 



Ffinale. Upperside smoky black. Anterior wings with a subapical band 

 of three sniokj'' hyaline spots, divided by the nervures, and there is another 

 similar but rather larger spot between the two lower median nervules. Posterior 

 wings with three or four black spots towards the base, nearly lost in the ground- 

 colour, and a broad orange-red band with indented edges, beyond the cell, 

 which becomes obsolete towards the inner margin. 



Underside. Anterior wings paler and more glossy. Posterior wings with 

 the band of a pale pink, edged within by a row of black spots. Outside the 

 band the wing is greyish-brown ; within it is of a slightly greenish-grey, with 

 well-marked black spots, one in the basal cell, two above the discoidal cell, two 

 in it, and a third at the extremity, and four below the cell towards the 

 base. 



Body black, spotted with yellow ; palpi white, with black hairs ; legs 

 whitish, with the tarsi reddish-brown. 



