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minute white-ptipilled ocelli in interspaces 2 and 5, and similar 

 ones in interspaces Ic (two), 2, 5 and 6 of the hind-wing. 



Exp. $ 48 mm. 



Hah. Gold Coast, Ashanti (Bompata). Only two males 

 taken in February in dense forest. The type is shown here 

 and the co-type is in the British Museum. 



Family Nymphalidae, Sub-Family Acraeinae. — (/) is an 

 insect belonging to the section of the genus Acraea having 

 elongated Y-shaped marks between the veins on the outer 

 area of the hind-wing. In the present species these are 

 disposed as in ^1. oberthwi, Butl., but are more elongated 

 and narrower at the margin. The species seems allied to 

 A. althoffi, Dewitz, but differs from the specimen in the 

 British Museum in the basal area of both wings being dark. 

 In general appearance and position of markings it so nearly 

 resembles Planema epaea, Cram., that I have called it 

 A. pseudepaea. 



(f) Acraea jjseudepaea, n. sp. 



(J. Fore-wing blackish brown with indistinct black spots in, 

 below and near the end of the cell ; a large orange patch from 

 the middle of the inner margin to the base of vein 3, defined by 

 black patches inwardly in the interspaces lb and 2, somewhat 

 excised in both places; an orange sub-apical bar formed of 

 quadrate spots in interspaces 4, 5 and 6, the lower part of the 

 first named produced outwardly and with a postmedial quad- 

 rate orange spot attached below the extended part in inter- 

 space 3 ; the median veins powdered with reddish scales. 

 Hind-wing with the basal and sub-basal areas dark brown 

 with black spots in and below the cell ; the disc bright orange 

 with the outer margin of it produced into attenuated streaks 

 on each side of the veins, which are broadly defined with 

 black, prodvicing black V-shaped markings between the veins ; 

 the outer area blackish. Under-side of the fore-wing with 

 the orange markings of the upper-side reproduced, the sub- 

 apical bar pale ; the inner two-thirds of the cell suffused with 

 orange ; a round black spot in the cell, two irregularly shaped 

 black spots in interspace lb and one in the basal part of inter- 

 space 2 ; a large black patch extending over and beyond the 

 end of the cell into the basal part of interspace 3 ; the outer 



