NYMPHALIDJE.-ACR^IN^. 



ACRJEA. VII. 



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XXIX.— ACR^A HUMILIS. <?. Figs. 1, 2. ?. Fig. 3. 



Acnva Hiiniilis, Sharpe, "Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 

 Ser. 6, Vol. XIX., p. 582 (1897). 



Exp. If inches. 



3Iah'. Upperside. Anterior wings transparent in the middle, rather 

 broadly dusky brownish-grey at the base, along the costa, at the apex, and the 

 f)nter and inner margins. Posterior wings biscuit-coloured in the middle, 

 ])roadly margined outwardly by dark brownish-grey, the basal half of the cell 

 and inner margin grey with a cluster of black spots in the cell and above and 

 below it. Underside. Anterior wings as above, but tawny at the base of the 

 anterior wings, with a row of short grey lines, rather indistinct, between the 

 veins in the outer marginal dark area. 



Fcnutlc. " Quite transparent ; the costa, hind margin, inner margin, 

 nervules, and base of wing dusky brown. Hind wing exactly like the fore 

 wing. Underside very similar to the upperside, the dusky shading being 

 rather of a warmer brown. At the base of the hind wing this warm brown 

 colour is more pronounced, and there is one black spot between the sub-median 

 nervure and the first median nervules ; another minute black spot close to the 

 base." 



Hab. Ntebi, Uganda, November to December, 1895. 



In the Collections of Mr. F. J. Jackson and Mr. Grose-Smith. 



The specimen fitfured on the Plate as the male was lent to me as such by Mr. Jackson 

 through Miss Sharpe, but I entertain considerable doubt as to whether it really is the male of 

 that species. I am disposed to think it is a distinct species, and further, that the type specimen 

 of A. Humilis, which Miss Sharpe has labelled as the female, is also a male. 



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