166 Mr. H. Eltringham's Monograph of the 



on collar. Thorax black with red hairs, base of abdomen 

 black with yellowisli lateral spots, remainder pinkish ochreous. 



9 . Diy season. Very like the ^ but rather duller in colour. 

 Spots and markings as in ^ . Abdomen black above with white 

 lateral spots. 



Wet season. Dusky ochreous to sepia, often with a translucent 

 whitish discal area in the f.-w. Spots and markings as in dry 

 season form. 



As the form to which Aurivillius gave the name 

 inuiorclla proves to be specifically identical with N cave's 

 detcda, the latter must become a subspecies of the former. 

 Probably iJvdordla is the ancestral form and detcda has 

 become modified in its pattern in association with A. 

 caldarena, which it so closely resembles. The $ and $ 

 armatures of deiecta and caldarena are very distinct. 



01. ACRAEA RHODESIAXA. PI. II, f. 6 ( (^ ). 



Acraea rhodesiaiia, Wichgraf, Berlin Ent. Zeit., p. 240, pi. vi, 

 f. 1, 2 (1909). 



Rhodesia (Lofu R.). 



(J . Expanse 54 mm. Wings apricot yellow. F.-w. with a slight 

 dusky suffusion, distal half of costa black, apex black (4 mm. wide) 

 hind margin narrowly black. Subapical area paler than ground- 

 colour. Black ."^pots as follows : — One in cell just beyond origin 

 of 2, on end of cell a spot the greater part of which is beyond 

 the discocellulars. A vcr]f short distance beyond cell a row of 

 spots of which the first in 10 is markedly elongate, the second, 

 third and fourth shorter but gradually increasing in length, the 

 fifth in .3 separate and rather nearer margin. A spot in 2 near 

 median, beneath it and slightly nearer margin a spot in lb, 

 and in the same area a very small spot close to median and 

 just before origin of 2. II. -w. with a slight black suffusion 

 and a black hind-marginal band 2 mm. wide with faint indi- 

 cations of paler internervular markings. Black spots corre- 

 sponding with those beneath but those near inner margin 

 faintly indicated. 



Fringes rather conspicuously whitish. 



Underside f.-w. pale j^inkish ochreous with a still paler sub- 

 apical patch. Apex pale sage green divided by black ends of 

 nervules and internervular orange marks. Two black spots at 

 base of costa, other spots as above. H.-w. pale pinkish ochreous. 

 Base rose pink with some pale grey markings in cell and Ic. 

 Hind margin bordered by a black line on which are black inter- 

 nervular arches enclosing pale sage green spots. Black spots as 



