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Upper Side. Antennae spotted white beneath. Thorax and abdomen grey-brown. Anterior wings 

 dark brown, almost like chocolate, the tips forming an obtuse angle; a white streak crossing them 

 obliquely towards the lower corners, having a very small black spot thereon near the upper part. The 

 posterior edges are white, extending from the body almost to the lower corners. Three small faint white 

 spots are situated near the tips. Posterior wings white, deeply edged with brown from the upper to the 

 abdominal corners. 



Under Side. Palpi, breast, and abdomen grey. Anterior wings not so dark as on the upper side : 

 but having the same marks, with the addition of a white streak at the tips. Posterior wings white, with 

 a few patches of a very light brown, the lower edges being dappled with that colour. Near the shoulders 

 are two small yellow spots. Margins of the wings entire. 



ACR^A ETHOSEA. 



Plate XXXVII. fig. 3, 4. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diuina. Family: Heliconiidse, 5?«jairts. 



Genus. Acr.ea, Fabr. Latr. God. Papilio (Heliconii), Fabr. olim. 



ACR.EA Ethosea. Alls oblongis, supra fuscis disco albo, anticis integerrimis, posticis subdenticulatis, his infra 

 basi puuetis nigris, margine exteriori maculis albis trigonis serie digestis, (Expans. Alar. 2 uiic. 3 lin.) 



Syn. Papilio (Nympli. Phal ) Ethosea, Drury, App. vol. 3. Enc. Mith. ix. p. 236. No. 17. 



Habitat : Sierra Leone. 



Upper Side. Antennae black. Thorax, abdomen, and wings deep brown, almost black; the disk of 

 the anterior being white, and extending to the shoulders, all the middle part of the posterior being 

 white likewise. 



Under Side. Palpi grey. Breast and abdomen brown. Anterior wings next the body yellowish 

 brown, but towards the tips inclining to grey; nerves black; the disk white, with a round black 

 spot near the body, and another of a smaller size below it. The middle of the posterior wings is 

 white, surrounded with brown, that part along the lower edges being darkest; next the body are 

 five distinct black round spots, and an irregular shaped one at the middle of the upper edge ; along 

 the lower edges are a number of small triangular white spots. Margins of the posterior wings slightly 

 dentated. 



Although Sierra Leone is given by Drury in his published account of this insect as the 

 locality for this species, I find it mentioned in his manuscript Catalogue as being received 

 from "New Zealand, Mr. Banks, I775." The authors of the Encyclopedie Methodique 

 evidently knew the species only from Drury's figures and descriptions, and therefore have 

 given the former locality. It is difficult to account for this contradictory statement, or 

 to assert which of these localities is the correct one. 



