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APPENDIX. 



Description of neiv forms of Britisji East African butter^ 

 flics in the H021C Department, Oxford University Museum, 

 chiefly collected hy the Rev. K. St. Aubyn Rogers, M.A., 

 F.E.S. By Roland Trimen, Hon. M.A. Oxon., F.R.S., 

 F.E.S., &c. 



Family NYMPHALIDJi:. 



Sub-family ACRMINJE. 

 Acrma asboloplintha, Karsch,* suh-sp. nov., riibescens. 

 Exp. al (4 $) r 1—2'"; (1 %) 2" 1'". 



$. Fore-iving : fuscous ground of a clearer, less brownish 

 but more ashy, tint than in typical form ; black spots 

 larger and more distinct ; inner-marginal rufous, usually 

 present in asboloplmtha as a more or less obscure stripe 

 from before middle to near posterior angle, is extended 

 upward so as to form a median band, variable in develop- 

 ment, and ill-defined on its edges, but intruding on dis- 

 coidal cell and more or less filling space between sub-basal 

 and medio-discal black spots. Hind-iving : deeper and 

 brighter rufous ; all medio-discal black spots — especially 

 spots 1-4 — larger, well-defined ; hind-marginal fuscous 

 edging much broader, its inner side not sharply defined 

 but more or less diffused. Under side. — Fore-wing : rufous 

 space of upper-side represented by a reddish tinge occupy- 

 ing a corresponding area ; black spots more distinct and 

 rather larger than in typical form. Hind-iving : black 

 spots all larger ; basal and inner-marginal red border more 

 vivid, bright crimson ; broad discal-submarginal fulvous 

 band immediately beyond medio-discal black spots much 

 deeper and brighter in colour ; narrow hind- marginal yellow 

 border also brighter. 



Abdomen with much less rufous-ochreous on its terminal 

 half, segments 4 to 9 being dorsally and laterally black, 

 with a conspicuous upper-lateral series of ochre-yellow 

 spots. 



$. Dull-whitish replaces in both wings the rufous of the 

 * Ent. Naclir., xx, p. 223 (1894), 



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