18 NYMPH ALIDiE. — ACE^IN^. — ACR^A. 



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. 



Somewhat resembles A. Pencleos, Ward, as remarked by Miss Sharpe, but with narrower 

 wings. 



XXIIL— ACR^A NIOBE. $ . Fig. 10. 



Jcraa Niobe (Staudinger, MS.), E. M. Sharpe, " Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society of London " (1893), p. 554. 



Exp. '2J inches. 



Male. Upperside brownish-black, subvitreous, with suffused darker 

 Itrown borders, and large black spots. Anterior wings with an oblong black 

 spot near the base of the cell, and large roundish spots at and before its 

 extremity ; there is a subapical band formed of three confluent spots, and there 

 are large spots between the median nervules towards their origin, and two 

 above the submedian nervure, one towards the base, and the other towards the 

 hind margin. Posterior wings with the basal area covered below the subcostal 

 nervure by a mass of confluent spots ; above this nervure is a detached spot 

 near the base. Beyond is a row of eight spots on the disk, the three nearest 

 the inner margin almost confluent. 



Underside similar, but rather paler and more glossy, and with the spots 

 towards the base of the hind wings more separated. The anterior wdngs 

 are rather long, with the hind margin very oblique and slightly concave ; the 

 posterior wings are short, the hind margin being very slightly convex. 



Thorax black above, head and undersurface greyish-brown, collar red ; 

 abdomen with the basal half black above, with two small red spots on each 

 side ; hinder half red, except at the extremity ; there is a black spot towards 

 each extremity of the red colouring, the second confluent with the dark apex. 

 Abdomen beneath red, with the base and two transverse bands black, the last 

 band much narrower than the other. 



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



In the Collections of Dr. Staudinger, and of the Lisbon Museum. 



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

 Newton. 



An aberrant species belonging to the section Gnesia, Doubleday. 



