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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES OF AFRICAN 

 LEPIDOPTERA. 



By W. J. Holland, Ph.D., F.E.S., Pittsburgh. 



A LARGE collection of African lepidoptera, made by Dr. W. 

 L. Abbott in Eastern Africa during the year 1888, has been, 

 placed in my hands for determination by the authorities of the 

 U. S. National Museum. The paper in which a full account will 

 be published may be delayed for some time, and I therefore avail 

 myself of the permission accorded me by Prof. C. V. Riley, the 

 Curator of the Entomological Department, to publish diagnoses 

 of the species I have described as new. In the prosecution of my 

 studies upon this collection, I am much indebted to Mr. A. G. 

 Butler, of the British Museum, and Mr. H. Druce, to whom I 

 desire to extend my thanks for the courtesies they have shown 

 me. The types are in the U. S. National Museum. 



RHOPALOCERA. 



Genus Acr^a, Fab. 



A. PHARSALOIDES, Sp. nOV. 

 Much like' Pharsahis, Ward. Differs in having transapical band of 

 primaries fulvous, and not interrupted with white spots. A large quadrate 

 black spot from costa of primaries, covering end of cell, and extending to 

 second submedian. Ground colour falvous ; in Pharsahis, fuscous. 



Hah. Kilimanjaro. 



A. MINIMA, sp. nov. 



Allied to Ex>onina, Cram., but one-third smaller; in fact the smallest 

 Acrcsa thus far known. The cell of primaries is not traversed longitudi- 

 nally by a scarlet ray, as in Eponina. Scarlet band of secondaries strongly 

 angulated opposite cell. On the under side more or less ochreous. Second- 

 aries ornamented with narrow band of black spots, fused, and forming a 

 straight line before base. Some triangular white spots on outer margin. 



Female very like the male, but under side of wings broadly fuscous. 

 Expanse of wings, ^ 27 mm., $ 36 mm. 



Hah. Taveta ? 



A. ABBOTTII, Sp. nov. 



Allied in some particulars to A. cahira, Hopffer, but widely 

 different. 



<?. Upper side. — Anterior wings pale ochreous, with the base, the cell, 

 except a small triangular space at its lower edge near its outer end, the costal 

 margin, the apex, and the outer margin, broadly black. The ground colour 

 is disposed in the form of an oval subapical spot, and a broad discal band 

 parallel to the outer margin. The inner margin of the black apical area is 

 minutely excised just above the origin of the second median nervule, and just 

 below there is a round black spot. The black of the basal part of the wing is 

 extended in the form of a narrow streak for a short distance between the 

 median and the submedian nerves. The secondaries are broadly pale 

 ochreous, of the same tint as the primaries, with the outer margin broadly 

 and evenly bordered with black. There is a small black spot on the costa near 



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