Dcscriiition of a ncvj Species of Pseudacraea in the Rev. 

 Mr. Cornthwaite's Collection : by A. G. Butlek, 

 r.LS., F.Z.S., &c. 



GENUS PSEUDACRiEA. JFestivood. 

 Pseudacrcva simulator, n. sp. 



$. Wings above olive-brown with the nervures and 

 intermediate folds black; frontwings with basal area 

 blackish; five lilack spots at base, three within cell and 

 two below it, two of them touching base, that within cell 

 having a white pupil, all of them with a griseous iris ; a 

 broad white band nearly equal in width throughout (inter- 

 rupted by the first and second subcostal branches, the 

 radials, upper disco-cellular, and second and third median 

 branches), crosses the centre of the wing obliquely from 

 costal nervure to below centre of first median interspace ; 

 three white rays on inner margin : hinchvviujs with base 

 tawny; eleven black spots, the two touching the base 

 being largest and having conspicuous white pupils ; a 

 broad externally diffused white band crosses the wing 

 from inner margin to costal nervure, and is about twice as 

 broad at its lower as at its upper extremity : body mode- 

 rately robust, thorax black, white-spotted, abdomen bright 

 ochre-yellow, with diffused dorsal black stripe ; antennte 

 black, palpi wanting, but apparently bright ochre-yellow.* 



Wings beloiu paler than above ; an additional black spot 

 towards end of frontwing cell ; otherwise as above : ex- 

 panse of wings, 3 inches, 4 lines. 



West Africa. Coll. Rev. T. Cornthwaite. 



This species is a remarkable mimic of Acrma (Plancma) 

 Euritca ? ; it is allied to P. Imitator of Trimen. 



* A reiunaiit of one of thuin rfinains sticking to the proboscis. 



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