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 Under Side. Palpi hairy and light coloured. Legs and breast black. Abdomen light brown. 

 Anterior wings very glossy, the marks on the upper side being so faint as to be scarcely cUscernible. 

 Posterior wings cream-coloured, with the same number of black spots, but stronger and more distinct 

 than those on the upper side. The external edges bordered with orange, within which is a small narrow 

 black border, with light cream spots. Margins of the wings entire. 



ACRiEA GEA $. 



Plate XXVIII. fig. 3, 4. 



Order . Lepidoptera. Section : Diurna. Family : Heliconiidse. 

 Genus. Acr^a, Fair. Latr. God. Papilio (Heliconii), Fabr. olim. 



AcR.EA Gea. Alls obloiigis integerrimis, aiiticis utrinque fuscis, fasciis duabus fiilvis aut albidis, una versus 

 apicem, altera connexa disco postiearum, his subtiis rufescentibus, basi nigro-puuctatis, postea striatis. 

 (Expans. Alar. 3 une.) 

 Syn. Papilio (Hel.) Gea, Fabr. Spec. Ins. 2. p. 32. No. 136. <?. Bnc. Mith. ix. p. 238. (Acraja G.) 

 Papilio (H.)Jodutta, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 111. 1. p. 175. No. 654. J- 

 Papilio (Hel.) Hirce, Drury, App. vol. 3. 

 Papilio Epeea, Cramer, pi. 230./. B.C. 



Habitat : Sierra Leone (Drury). " Calabar, in Africa, Capt. Parker, 1771" {Drury's MSS.). 



Upper Side. Antennae black. Thorax black, with four white spots on each side. Abdomen dark 

 orange, spotted on the sides with black, and a black streak running along the top. Anterior wings fine 

 dark brown, almost black. A large patch of dark orange is placed at the middle of the posterior edges, 

 and between that and the tips is a streak of the same colour, divided into three parts by the tendons of 

 the wings. Near the body are six i-ound black spots hardly discernible, on one of which, nearest the 

 body, is a very small white one. Posterior wings near the body orange, but along the edges black, the 

 space between being covered with rays, composed of those two colours. Next the body are ten round 

 black spots, some larger than others, on one of which is a small white one, as on the upper wings. 



Under Side. Palpi orange. Thorax black, spotted with white. Legs black above and white 

 beneath. Abdomen orange. Anterior wings much lighter on this side than on the upper, the 

 orange-coloured marks being, on this side, of a dark yellow. All the black spots on this side are 

 more distinct than on the other, as is that with the small white one on it. Posterior wings next the 

 body orange, from whence to the edges issue rays of a dusky yellow and black, there being no black 

 border. The black spots next the body are also very strong. The edges of the posterior wings are a 

 little dentated. 



NYMPHALIS HOSTILIA. 



Plate XXVIII. fig. 5, 6. 



Order: Lepidoptera, /-«(h. Section: Diurna, ia^r. Family; Nymphalidaj, 5!«aJ«son. 



Genus. Nymphahs, i«/r. Papilio (Eq. achiv.), iiun. i)»-ur(/. Papilio Nympbalis, FoJ;-. 



Nymph ALis Hostilia. Alls dentatis subconcoloribus, fulvis, basi nigro-maculatis ; anticaruni apice fuscn 

 puuctis flavescentibus. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 6 lin.) 



Syn. Papilio (Dan. Fest.) Hostilia, Drury, App. vol. 3. Fabr. Ent. Syst. 111. 1. p. 130. No. 39y. 

 Nymphalis H., Latr. God. Eiw. MHh. ix.p. 393. 



Habitat : "Sierra Leone, Mr. Smeathman, 1775" (Drury's MSS.). 



