African Species of the Genvs Acraca. 215 



H.-w. with some blackisli at base followed in 2, Ic, lb, and la 

 by pale yellow. Traces of tlie underside black spots especially on 

 upper discocellulars. Central area pale tawny orange. Hind- 

 marginal border much broader than in ^, and having pale 

 orange marginal internervular spots. 



Underside a rather less brilliantly coloured replica of that of 

 the (J. 



A. goeizi is nearly allied to A. excelsior, but there is a 

 slight difference in the structure of the $ armature. 



83. ACRAEA EXCELSIOR. PI. XIII, f. 12. 



Acraea excelsior, E. M. B. Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 192, pi. 17, 

 f. 3 (1891) ; Karsch, Ent. Nachr., 23, p. 371 (1897) ; Auri- 

 villius, Rhop. Aeth., p. 104 (1898). 

 Nyassaland (Zomba) ; German East Africa; British East 



Africa (Kikuyu, Kenya). 



^ . Expanse 40-42 mm. F.-w. black, with a large central brick 

 red patch, edged with lemon-ochreous, and covering the greater 

 part of cell, a small portion of base of 3, more than half of 2, nearly 

 the whole of lb, and ithe central part of la. A sub-marginal 

 band of lemon ochreous spots divided only by the nervules 

 in 9, 6, 5, and part of 4. 



H.-w. with a rather clearly defined black basal suffusion, its 

 outer edge bounded by a straight line at right angles to inner 

 margin and traversing cell just beyond the middle. A conspicu- 

 ous black linear spot on upper part of discocellulars, above 

 which in 7 is a deep crimson mark marginally powdered with 

 black. Central portion of wing lemon-ochreous, darker from 

 costa to nervule 3, followed by a black hind-marginal border, 

 the inner edge of which runs parallel to apical margin as far as 

 3, where it becomes suddenly wider and runs straight to the 

 inner margin. 



Underside. F.-w. The red area corresponding to that above, 

 costa ochreous dusted with black, remainder black as on upper- 

 side with a similar but slightly larger lemon-yellow subapical 

 patch. Reddish orange marginal internervular marks. 



H.-w. lemon-yellow with a black hind-marginal border as on 

 upperside. On this border is a series of broad deep crimson 

 internervular rays each edged with sooty black and tipped with 

 white at the outer extremity. Midway between base and inner 

 edge of marginal border is a crimson black-bordered triangular 

 mark, its base on the costa, and its apex nearly reaching end of 

 cell. Area 9 crimson. Base of 7, cell, and 2 narrowly black, 



