134 Mr. H. Eltringham's Moxograpli of the 



of the liind-marginal black, and from both these forms iti 

 the very faint development of black on the nervules of the 

 f.-w. apical area. 



47. ACRAEA MANiSYA. PI. I, ff. 13 ((^), 12(9). PI. IX, f. 11. 



Acraea vudisya, Eltringharu, Novit. Zool., xviii, p. 153 (1911). 

 = A. nohara chamhezi (])art), Neave, Proc. Zool. Soc, 



p. 21 (1910). 

 N.E. Ehodesia (Cliambezi Valley, near L. Young). 



^. Expanse 40-50 mm. Wings rosy red with black spots 

 and markings. To gi\-e a lull description of this species would 

 be merely to repeat tliat of A. clmmhezi with the exception that 

 the spot in area 3 of h.-w. is nearly midway between end of cell 

 and the inner edge of marginal Idack and tliiis lies either imme- 

 iliatel)^ below the spot in 4, or is more distally placed. This is 

 the only constant difference I have been able to discover. The 

 tarsal claws are unequal. A careful comparison of the six 

 examples before me with five of clmmhezi also shows that the 

 })ale spots on the marginal black on h.-w. underside are, though 

 variable in size, more rounded in mansya than in chonbezi. 



Tlie specimens slmw a great variation in size. One ^ is 50 

 mm. in expanse and differs from the rest in having broader 

 black margins, a small discal spot in area 5 of h.-w., and two 

 small spots on h.-w. discocellulars. One ^ has a whitish 

 suft'usion at base of lb in f.-w. In only one specimen is there 

 a subbasal spot in lb in f.-w. and that only on one side. The 

 tyjje specimen has no spot in area 2 in f.-w. though this spot is 

 present in varying degrees of intensity in the other examples. 

 Two small ^ ^ are dull orange ochreous instead of rosy red. 



5. The single female in the series is small (40 mm.). The 

 wings are dull smoky ochreous, with a tendency to orange in 

 the apical area. All the spots in f.-w. except that on disco- 

 cellulars are Init faintly indicated on the upperside. The 

 abdomen is black above with lateral wliite spot.*, and yellowish 

 white beneath, and the ".seal " is somewhat similar to that 

 described by Trimen in the $ onerata. In this $ and in 

 three of the ^ ^ the f.-w. discal row of spots forms a nearly 

 straight line across tdie wing, in the others the line is augulated 

 though not so sharply as in A. chamhczi. 



In examining the eleven examples of Neave's " nohara 

 chambezi" in the Oxford Museum, my attention was at- 

 tracted to the small ochreous ^ above described and from 

 that to the small males which appeared to correspond with 



