196 Mr. H. Eltringham's Monograph of the 



along middle of back of thorax, and a broad lateral streak 

 varied with white spots; the abdomen bearing two dorsal, 

 two lateral, and one median ventral, chains of black rings 

 enclosing orange yellow spots." 



The larva oi natalica 'pseudcgiita I have figured on Plate 

 VI, from examples sent home by Mr. W. A. Lamborn. The 

 black stripes would appear to be less marked than in 

 the southern form, but the white marks on the head are 

 characteristic. 



A $ of vatalica natalica taken by Rogers near Rabai 

 bears a note to the effect that it " emitted a strong odour 

 like that of rotten cabbages." 



75. ACRAEA ASBOLOPLINTHA. PI. XII, f. 4. PI. XV, f. 23. 



Acmea usholojMntha, Karsch., Ent. Nachr. 20, p. 22.3 (1894); 

 AurivilUus, Rhop. Aeth., p. 90 (1898) ; Heron, Trans. Zool. 

 Soc, xix, p. 148 (1909). 

 = dissociata, Gr.-Smith, Novit. Zool. 5, p. 350 (1898) ; Rhop. 



Exot., p. 19, pi. 6, f. 4, 5, 6 (1901). 

 = natalica var. dissociata, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 46 



(1902). 

 Congo (Ruwenzori Region, 7,000 ft. ; Mt. Mikeno) ; Uganda ; 

 British E. Africa (Tiriki Hills). 

 A. asboloplintha rubescens, siibsp. 



Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 547 (1908). 

 9 = asboloplintha $,Suffert, Iris, p. 19, pi. 2, f. 6 (1904). 



British E. Africa (E. and S. of Kikuyu, Nairobi, Weithaga, 

 Ft. Hall). 



^ . Expanse 54-60 mm. F.-w. warm sepia, a brick red median 

 patch on inner margin rarely extending slightly into area lb. 

 Small black spots rather faintly discernible on the dark ground 

 corresponding to those on the underside. 



H.-w. brick red with a slight black basal suffusion and a narrow 

 black line round hind margin. Black discal and basal spots, 

 very small, and corresponding with those on underside. 



Underside. F.-w. pale umber brown, apex with orange brown 

 internervular marks. One black spot (rarely two) at base of costa 

 and a black line round apex and hind margin. A black spot in 

 cell just before origin of 2, one on upper part of l.d.c. Beyond 

 cell four spots in 6, 5, 4, and 3 and all in a straight line nearly at 

 right angles to costa. A spot in 2 near median, beneath it but 

 slightly nearer to base a spot in lb, and in same area a subbasal 

 spot near median. 



H.-w, deep ochreous with red patches at base and in lb and la, 



