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XI. On a new and also on a little-known species of 

 PseudacrtTBa in the collection of the Hon. Walter 

 Rothschild. By Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., and 

 The Hon. Walter Eothschild, F.Z.S. 



[Read June 1st, 1892.J 



Plate X. 



PseudacrcBa Clarkii, Butler; and P. Poggei, Daw. 



PseudacrcBa Clarkii. 



$ . Prevailiug colour of upper surface of wings reddish tawny 

 (probably rosy carmine in freshly emerged examples) ; primaries 

 with the apical two-fifths and a rather broad and regular outer 

 border greyish olive-brown ; an oblique quadrangular quadrifid 

 patch of the ground coloi;r half-way between the discoidal cell and 

 the apex ; veins and internervular folds black ; a black streak in 

 the cell just above the median vein ; internervular streaks on the 

 median interspaces very wide, that on the upper space tapering 

 towards the cell, that on the lower space widening and obliquely 

 truncated ; the streak on the interno-median area confined to the 

 basal half of the wing, very broad and obliquely truncated towards 

 the base, its outer extremity curved round in a loop, which runs 

 along the inner margin to the base ; secondaries with greyish 

 olivaceous costal border, interrupted near apex by an oblique 

 whitey-brown streak ; eight black spots on the basal half, one large 

 within the cell near the base, followed by a small one just above 

 the median vein ; four large subconfluent black spots crossing the 

 end of the cell from the first subcostal branch to the submedian 

 vein, and two small spots beyond this series above the second 

 subcostal and third median branches ; abdominal border sordid 

 white, interrupted by suaoky-brown veins ; a small white spot at 

 base of interno-median area ; external border rather broadly 

 blackish, with dentate-sinuate inner edge, and enclosing about 

 eight ill-defined whitish spots in pairs ; body black ; four white 

 dots on the head, two pale ochreous spots on the collar, teguUe and 

 sides of thorax spotted with whitish ; abdomen spotted laterally 

 with ochreous, and with a longitudinal interrupted white stripe 



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