308 Mr. H. Eltringliam's Monograph of the 



9 . Expanse 45 mm. Resembles ^ but margin of h.-w. ratlier 

 less thickly scaled. Spots on underside rather more distinct 

 and visible on upperside. A second spot in cell nearer base. 

 A. cinerea alberta. PI. IV, f. 1 (cJ). 



^. Expanse 46-50 mm. F.-w. as in cinerea but costal and 

 apical scaling sooty black. H.-w. sooty black with a large 

 central patch of crimson (jccupying base of 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 

 middle of Ic, and end of cell. 



Underside as in cinerea but the crimson area appears as 

 a deep pink. Basal dark red as in cinerea. One example 

 has no black spots on underside of h.-w. 

 9 unknown. 

 A. cinerea occurs in the Tiriki Hills, N. of Kisuinu at 

 an elevation of over 5,000 ft. 



The examples of cinerea alhertci were taken some sixty 

 miles W. of L. Albert Nvanza at an elevation of about 

 3,2.50 ft. 



There is no difficulty in recognising this species as it is 

 quite unlike any other African Acraea. The male arma- 

 ture is of a very simple though fairly distinctive character. 



117. Acraea quirinalis. PI. XV, f. 7. 



Acraea qvirirudis, Grose-Smith, Novit. Zool., vii, p. 544 (1900); 

 Ehop. Exot. Acraea, 7, p. 24, pi. 7, f. 5 (1901). 

 German E. Africa (Usukuma) ; British E. Africa (Kisumu, 

 Nandi) ; Uganda (Entebbe) ; Congo (Ituri Forest). 



(^ . Expanse 40-50 mm. F.-w. rather elongated, greyish, 

 almost transparent (scales almost reduced to hairs). Base 

 nearly to end of cell, base of area 2, and greater part of areas 

 lb and la flushed with red. Costa, apex and hind margin 

 faintly darker than the remainder. At base of area lb a well- 

 marked black longitudinal streak, and in cell along the sub- 

 costal a well-developed black streak extending to a point above 

 the origin of nervule 2. 



H.-w. also thinly scaled, a little black at base, followed by a 

 well-defined red patch which extends a little beyond the end of 

 cell leaving a broad greyish semitransparent marginal border. 

 This border is almost twice the width of that in the red form of 

 orestia humilis and is not, or only very faintly, darker at anal 

 angle. Black spots less distinct than on underside. 



Underside f.-w. almost scaleless. H.-w. also nearly scaleless 

 except the black spots which are arranged as follows : — One at 

 base in 9, one in 8, two in 7, the second over origin of nervule 

 7, and forming the first of an outer row of eight. Of these the 

 first five are roughly parallel to the outer margin, the sixth 



