74 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



1. Acraa mirabilis, Butler. 



' P. Z. S. Lond.,' 1885, p. 760. <? . 

 Butler's description of this, which I have slightly revised 

 from comparison with the type in the British Museum, runs as 

 follows. I give only the male characters : 



" Wings above bright tawny with rose-coloured shot (probably 

 rose-red in life) ; primaries with extremities of veins black ; with 

 a black spot at end of cell ; an obhque sub-apical lighter patch 

 on a black ground ; secondaries, owing to their transparency, 

 showing a band just before the middle ; outer border with rather 

 narrow, internally wavy black border with a paler central stripe ; 

 head and thorax tawny, the latter sprinkled with whitish scales ; 

 abdomen white. Primaries below soft tawny, with two black 

 discoidal spots ; an oblique oval sub-apical creamy patch edged 

 internally with black ; beyond it and towards the outer margin 

 throughout the veins are black broadly bordered with ash-grey ; 

 secondaries pale yellowish ; basal area spotted with rose-colour ; 

 a black sub-basal transverse dash from costal margin to the cell, 

 and two or three sub-basal black spots ; a narrow whitish 

 suffusion from costa extending into cell followed by an ash-grey 

 subangulated central band, spotted with tawny and rose-red, 

 margined on both sides with black and enclosing a black dash 

 across base of interspace 5 ; veins upon external area black ; the 

 latter has no decided inner edge, but is of a pale buf! tint (the 

 ground colour), shading into white internally against the central 

 band ; this area encloses a series of internervular pyramidal 

 orange dashes, and is bounded externally by two thin even 

 parallel black lines enclosing a narrow silver-grey marginal band. 

 Fringes white. Body below white, palpi and legs in front buff, 

 sides of pectus spotted with rose-red. 



Length of fore wing 1*85 cm. 



B.M. Type No. Kb. 047, S . Bunder Maria, Somaliland, 

 27 : iv : '84, Yerbury. 



As far as I can ascertain this locality is the Banda Maraya 

 of most modern atlases, situate slightly west of C. Guardafui in 

 Italian Somaliland. Butler expressly states {L c, p. 756) that 

 the collection came from the Somali coast, i. c. from the hot, 

 arid coastal plains, to which true A. mirabdis would appear to 

 be confined. No other specimens have reached the Museum 

 since the four males contained in this collection. I have not 

 seen a female of this species. 



2. Acrcea mirancla, n. nov. 



A. mirabilis, Butler, 'P. Z. S.,' 1885, p. 760, pi. xlvii, 



fig. 1. ? . 

 A. mirabilis, Dixey, ' P. Z. S.,' 1900, p. 11, pi. i, hg. 4. <? . 

 A. mirabilis, Eitr'mghixm, 'Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,' 1912, 



p. 216 (part). 



