African Specic>i of the Genus Acraea. 291 



Underside. F.-w. as above but thinly scaled and somewhat 

 glossy. H.-w. with reddish brown base on which the black 

 spots are ill defined and confluent. Central area occupied by 

 a conspicuous broad curved pink band. Marginal border red- 

 dish brown marked as in ^ . 



Head, thorax, and abdomen with tlie pale spots rather more 

 conspicuous. 



Acraea conraclti seems to be a well-defined species of 

 narrow distribution. 



In the Vosseler collection at Berlin there is a fine series 

 of 18 ^ and 5 $, taken in German E. Africa. Two 

 examples in the Tring collection are from Nguelo. 



108. Acraea buschbecki. PI. XIII, f. 20. 



Acraea hnschbcclci, Dewitz, Ent. Nachr. 15, -p. 102, jjl. 1, f. 2 

 (Apr. 1889) ; Aurivillius, Rhop. Aeth. p. 112 (1898). 



= Zaire, Eogenhofer, Ann. Mus. Wien., 4, p. 551 (Dec. 1889). 



Congo State (Quango, Stanley Falls, Luebo, Kassai E.) ; 

 Cameroon (Bitj6 R., Asokko). 



(J. Expanse about 54 mm. F.-w. narrow and elongated. 

 Brownish black. Cell as far as origin of 3, l)asal two-thirds of 

 area 2, basal three-quarters of lb, and subbasal portion of la, 

 brick red. An oblique subapical series of three elongated con- 

 tiguous quadrate brick-red spots in 6, 5, and 4, followed by a 

 smaller, more rounded, and isolated spot in 3. Projecting into 

 cell from subcostal, above origin of nervule 2, an outwardly 

 curved blackish brown spot. In area la a large subtriangular 

 blackish brown spot, its base on the submedian, and its apex 

 meeting nervule 2 just beyond the origin of the latter. A 

 linear basal black mark in area 2. 



H.-w. brick red, yellowish at inner margin and with a slight 

 blackish basal suffusion. A blackish brown hind-marginal 

 border, some 2 mm. wide, its inner edge somewhat edentate on 

 the nervules and rather less so between them. A series of black 

 spots somewhat ill defined and partly confluent. 



Underside. F.-w. as above but basal red areas orange 

 ochreous, subapical spots dull ochreous, and the apex and hind 

 margin striated by ochreous internervular marks, each divided 

 by a narrow central dark ray. Costa dull ochreous. 



H.-w. dull ochreous with a blackish brown hind-marginal 

 border as on upperside but bearing a series of marginal inter- 

 nervular ochreous spots each of which is divided by a short 

 internervular ray which scarcely reaches the margin. Black 



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